Re: Repeated digits in Pi -- the Feynman point

On 6/24/2025 12:32 AM, David Entwistle wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:15:32 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
 

           The name honors physicist Richard Feynman, who is said to have
joked about memorizing pi up to that point and then mischievously
claiming pi is rational by reciting the six nines and saying "and so
on". However, there is no clear record of Feynman actually making this
remark in a lecture, and the story has become part of mathematical
folklore.

 Chat GPT kindly wrote a short poem to help me remember the first ten
digits of pi.
 Counting All Digits,
Aiming Every Intention,
Boldly Facing Every Dream.
 Can anyone do better?
>

I'm impressed that the ChatGPI understood what you wanted (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.).
In 1998 I posted the following to the rec.puzzles newsgroup.  It used the letters in each word for digits of pi:
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Hey!  I made a short paragraph to assist those who often memorize something through mnemonics. Try to add comments.  When making it longer, make all the comments fit my pattern.
3.14159265358979323846264338327941971693993751...
Carl G.
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