Re: Pi Day Exercise

> I've never had much trouble memorizing 3.141592653589...  I can remember
> being taught the 22/7 approximation in school around age 10 or 11.
>
> There's a mnemonic poem (in French, maybe an English one also) in which
the
> word lengths are successive digits of pi.  Can't remember it now (so
what
> sort of great mnemonic is this?) but I'm hoping someone will chime in
about
> here.
>
> ObSFRef: Pi plays a highly significant part in "Contact" by Carl Sagan.
>
> --
> Mike Dworetsky
>
> (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)
>

How about

Now I will a rhyme construct
By chosen words the young instruct.
Cunningly devised endeavor,
Con it and remember ever.
Widths of circle here you see.
Sketched out in strange obscurity.(Either written by or passed on by
Michael
Shapiro)Sheerluck