I went to the Primus concert last night at the Pageant in St. Louis. It was truly a rock concert, as you could not hear yourself think. Before the concert, I met up with some friends at a pizza restaurant called Pi. Now, the restaurant is of course named after the mathematical constant Pi (often represented by the Greek symbol π and given the simplified value of 3.14). This value is a play on the fact that pizza's are round and pi is often used in calculations involving circles (pi is actually a ratio between a circles circumference to its diameter). On the glasses at the restaurant, they had pi printed out to several decimal places. This got me thinking..."Dan, why haven't you taken the time to memorize pi out to several decimal places". This, for whatever reason, is a popular thing to do in the science community as the number goes out to infinity and it is a sign to other nerds that you have spent more Saturday nights alone than they have (which I suppose is a sign of nerd pride ?????) For whatever reason, I chose the moment while the music was at its loudest to look up pi on wikipedia and memorize it as much as I could before the combination of the music and the numbers gave me a headache. I actually had an another purpose in doing this as I was wanting to work on my ability to focus with a lot of distractions around me (a skill that will serve me well in the ER). I was able to memorize it out to this length.
3.14159265358979323846264338
This is great first date conversation, right?
38 minutes ago
Not unless you're dating a math major, Dan.
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