Yesterday was Pi Day. What is the news of the Pi Day events? Pizza Hut had free pies. Pizza pies. NASA had a Pi Day Challenge. An Ann Arbor boy can recite 1,300 Pi digits. I wonder how long that takes? It doesn't say, but there's a video of the boy in the corner of the news article. But some other person who is 6 years old memorized 1200 digits and it took 8 minutes.
And how long would it take to recite all of pi? Well, that's a silly question, as we now that pi never ends and it never repeats itself. the first 62.8 trillion digits have been computer by computers and if one digit is said every second, it would take 2,000,000 years to recite all 62 plus trillion.
There follows many people who have recited pi to various numbers of digits. 1,200 is a common choice.
Here's that butterfly from yesterday with a watercolour treatment.
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