• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I myself once learned 380 digits of π, when I was a crazy high-school kid. My never-attained ambition was to reach the spot, 762 digits out in the decimal expansion, where it goes “999999”, so that I could recite it out loud, come to those six 9s, and then impishly say, “and so on!”

    —Douglas Hofstadter