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When Erin Matlock of BrainTraining101 offered me a guest post, I wasn’t sure what to expect. What did she bring me? Pi! Quite yummy Pi, too… So without further ado (and only a few interjections from me) Heeeeeeeeeeeere’s Erin! - Tori

Pi.

Sadly, This beautiful mathematical constant (that serves not only as humor t-shirt fare but a kind of religion for number junkies) is often drilled down to a measly 3.14, all because people have trouble remembering longer versions of Pi.

Tori: Oh, Erin, if I could only remember more decimals of Pi!

One way to remember longer versions of Pi is with piems - poems written where the number of letters making up each word stands for a digit in Pi. There are quite a few circling the internet which can help you in recalling Pi up to the 20th decimal place and beyond. Here is one of the most popular:

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!

Counting the letters in each word gives us

How (3) I (1) want (4) a (1) drink (5), alcoholic (9) of (2) course (6), after (5) the (3) heavy (5) lectures (8) involving (9) quantum (7) mechanics (9)!

3.14159265358979.

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