Re: Pi Day Exercise

Mike Dworetsky wrote:
> 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.

"How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures
involving quantum mechanics. All of thy geometry, Herr Planck, is fairly
hard..." gives 3.14159265358979323846264... and is (largely) due to James
Jeans. 
See, e.g, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiWordplay.html
for more of that.

Jens.

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