Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Old Pi Video

I didn't think I'd need this video for anything but a laugh. Turns out I do. We have a decimals of pi memorization contest and I'm using this song to help me remember. Hopefully it will be stuck in my head just like the first time I heard it.

1 comment:

Cladeedah said...

You've got this one in the bag. I find it helps me to memorize things to write them down a lot. Maybe it has something to do with muscle memory? I also like to remember numbers in pairs and then identify them with something, so:

3.14 - easy
15 - Middle teens
92 - the year before your uncle Jesse graduated high school
65 - your auntie's height
35 - the age by which women should have children (odds of birth defects increase exponentially after that).
81 - 9x9
79 - Two years after I was born
32 - Your mom's age this year.
38 - Almost 40? I don't know...
etc.

If 3 numbers are significant to you, like 384 used to be the beginning of a lot of phone numbers in my neighborhood, you can try to remember clusters of 3 too.