What are some mnemonics for the digits of pi, in English and other languages?
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What are some mnemonics for the digits of pi, in English and other languages? [ Editor: problem statement reconstructed from the postings. ]
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[ Editor: no mnemonics were quoted in the collected material, only this
announcement (March 1996) of a collection of them. ]
PiPhilology v. 2.0 (March 7, 1996), Antreas P. Hatzipolakis
1. DESCRIPTION:
PiPhilology is a collection of Pi mnemonics (ie. sentences to memorize
the first digits of pi) and poems related to pi.
pi = 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510....
Example: AEI O 9EOS O MEGAS GEWMETREI......
3 1 4 1 5 9
2. CONTENTS:
[ X = extension, V = variant, (x) = the number of pi mnemonics ]
Mnemonics of Type I (The length of the n-th word = The n-th digit of
Pi): Albanian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cornish, Czech (2), Dutch
(5), English (14+Xs), French (1+X), German (4+X+V), Greek (2),
Hungarian, Irish, Italian (2), Latin, Norwegian, Polish (6), Portuguese
(5), Romanian (2), Russian (5), Slovak (2) Slovenian (2), Spanish (2),
Swedish (2)
Mnemonics of Type II (3.14159... = Three (point) One Four One Five
Nine...): In Chinese, In English (3), In Japanese, In several lang.,
Japanese, Russian
Mnemonics of Type III (Other Types): Indian, Chinese (2), Czech,
English, German, Hebrew, Spanish
Misc. Mnemonics: English (3), French, Norwegian
Poems: One "modern poem", and two poems by Eve Andersson. (Only in Mac
and long text version)
Appendices: 1/pi, e, c, sqrts mnemonics in several languages.
3. VERSIONS:
A. PiPhilology 2.0: A Macintosh (DOCMaker v. 4.5 format) stand-alone
doc. Requirements: Color monitor; Symbol font installed.
B. PiPh-20l: Long text version (a text export from the Mac version)
C. PP-20s: Short text version
4. AVAILABILITY:
A. The Macintosh version is posted on Info-Mac Archive.
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/sci/pi-philology-20.hqx
B. The long text version is available via e-mail:
mailto:xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr
C. The short text version is posted on sci.math newsgroup
(Subjects: PP-20s-1.txt, PP-20s-2.txt, PP-20s-3.txt).
-- Antreas P. Hatzipolakis <xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr>
[ Editor: the announcement of the next version of the collection,
April 1996. ]
PiPhilology v. 3.0 (April 20, 1996)
Antreas P. Hatzipolakis
xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr
G R E E C E
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. :-)
1. DESCRIPTION:
PiPhilology is a collection of Pi mnemonics (ie. sentences to memorize
the first digits of pi) and poems related to pi.
pi = 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510....
Example: AEI(3) O(1) <TH>EOS(4) O(1) MEGAS(5) GEWMETREI(9)......
Please send additions, variants, extensions, comments etc.
2. CONTENTS:
[ X = extension, V = variant, (x) = the number of pi mnemonics ]
Mnemonics of Type I (The length of the n-th word = The n-th digit of
Pi): Albanian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cornish, Czech (2), Dutch
(5), English (15+Xs), French (1+X), German (4+X+V), Greek (2),
Hungarian, Irish, Italian (2), Latin, Norwegian, Polish (6), Portuguese
(5), Romanian (2), Russian (5), Slovak (2) Slovenian (2), Spanish (2),
Swedish (2)
Mnemonics of Type II (3.14159... = Three (point) One Four One Five
Nine...) : In Chinese, In English (4), In Japanese, In several lang.,
Finnish, Japanese (2), Russian
Mnemonics of Type III (Other Types):
Indian, Chinese (2), Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Spanish
Mnemonics IV:
English (3), French, Norwegian
Poems:
One "modern poem", two poems by Eve Andersson, one poem by Drs. P.
Appendix:
1/pi, e, c, sqrts mnemonics in several languages.
3. CHANGES (since v. 2.0):
Additions:
Type I :
English : #1.2, #5, #7.4, #7.10; French: #B2; German: #2.5; Greek:
#2.1,#2.2a,b
Type II :
Finnish; Japanese: #2
Type III :
Finnish
Poems:
Drs. P.'s poem
Appendix:
I : e: English: #5,#6,#7,#9; French: #1, #2a
III : 1/pi: French
IV : e: English
4. VERSIONS:
A. PiPhilology 3.0 : A Macintosh (DOCMaker format) stand-alone doc.
Requirements: Color monitor; Symbol font installed.
B. PiPh-30.txt : Text version (a text export from the Mac version)
5. AVAILABILITY:
A. The Macintosh version is posted on Info-Mac Archive.
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/sci/pi-philology-30.hqx
(Please try a good Info-Mac mirror site closest to you)
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/HyperArchive.html
(Keyword: Philology)
mailto:xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr
B. The text version is posted on sci.math newsgroup.
news:sci.math
Subjects:
PiPh-30.txt - I ( Size: 20K )
PiPh-30.txt - II ( Size: 16K )
PiPh-30.txt - III ( Size: 24K )
PiPh-30.txt - IV ( Size: 20K )
PiPh-30.txt - V ( Size: 20K )
PiPh-30.txt - VI ( Size: 16K )
PiPh-30.txt - VII ( Size: 16K )
PiPh-30.txt - VIII ( Size: 24K )
PiPh-30.txt - IX ( Size: 24K )
PiPh-30.txt - X ( Size: 28K )
PiPh-30.txt - XI ( Size: 24K )
PiPh-30.txt - XII ( Size: 24K )
mailto:xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr
-- Antreas P. Hatzipolakis <xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr>