Today I was at Community Next, a conference on the future of online communities. There were some interesting talks, so check it out online when it's available. A random coincidence happened during one of the transitions between talks when Noah raffled off a prize. Instead of doing the regular drawing, he asked for the person who could recite the most digits of pi. Surprisingly (or not) I was the only one who ventured to do it. In high school I had memorized it to around 500 digits, and the first 100 got burned into my long term memory. Oh, and the prize was an ipod nano - who knew that useless trivial would pay off years later!
Since "ipod" is "do pi" spelled backwards, this seems like destiny.
Posted by: Larry Hosken | February 11, 2007 at 06:18 PM
clever larry! considering i'm huuep, i shoulda noticed that. hehe.
Posted by: huuep | February 11, 2007 at 06:23 PM
Maybe I should have challenged you -- I knew at least the first 64 ~_~.
Posted by: Leslie | February 11, 2007 at 07:34 PM
you should have! would have been fun. =)
Posted by: huuep | February 11, 2007 at 07:36 PM
Hey Danny - it was great meeting you! The PI win was awesome :-)
Posted by: Arjun | February 12, 2007 at 02:15 AM
nice win... I was amazed that (1) you knew pi to that degree and (2) Noah could validate it on the spot. ;-)
Posted by: marc | February 12, 2007 at 12:59 PM
I challenge you to a PI off Danny. I think I have a chance=)
Posted by: noah kagan | February 19, 2007 at 03:09 PM
you're on! ;)
Posted by: huuep | February 19, 2007 at 03:15 PM
Hey, great! :-)
Posted by: Ming-Hsuan | June 06, 2007 at 10:07 PM