History Main / MouthfulOfPi

** In yet another, Jason shows off his irritating math smarts in front of his sister, who is yelling aloud a particular question she can't grasp. Jason knows what the answer is right away, "point 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3..."
-->'''Paige:''' If I remember correctly, I'm not paying you by the hour.
-->'''Jason:''' ...one-third.

* This is the motif of Darren Aronofsky's film ''{{π}}''. The protagonist is a MadMathematician who seems to discover the number to end all numbers, the number which holds the Meaning of Life.

* This is the motif of Darren Aronofsky's film ''Pi''. The protagonist is a MadMathematician who seems to discover the number to end all numbers, the number which holds the Meaning of Life.

* ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' has a character try to recite pi as a pickup line. [[http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-10-20/ It doesn't work.]]

* No points for guessing what [[IncrediblyLamePun famous song]] Public Enema used as the framework for their musical pneumonic unofficially titled "[[http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/ton/MathematicalPi.mp3 Mathematical Pi]]." Memorize the chorus and play along with MouthfulOfPi at home today!

* Pi was the basis of one hideously difficult puzzle in the AlternateRealityGame Lockjaw, as chronicled in [[http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/11/15/wheregif/ The Unholy Saga of Where.gif.]]

* In Carl Sagan's ''{{Contact}}'' it is discovered that at a particular distant point of the base 11 expression of pi a long sequence of 0 and 1's occurs that forms a bitmap of a circle. (Incidentially, pi is believed to be a normal number, which means that any sequence of numbers will eventually occur, with a frequency that corresponds to its random probability.)

* In Carl Sagan's ''Contact'' it is discovered that at a particular distant point of the base 11 expression of pi a long sequence of 0 and 1's occurs that forms a bitmap of a circle. (Incidentially, pi is believed to be a normal number, which means that any sequence of numbers will eventually occur, with a frequency that corresponds to its random probability.)

* According to [[http://nocona.comicgenesis.com/d/20061229.html this]] Nothing Comes Naturally strip, Cerine regularly uses pi as a password.

*** Considering that the ancient egyptians took Pi to be 22/7, which is only 3.14 in correct digits, but has an error of only 0.04% and is good enough for many practical purposes, and also considering that the math (via approximation of a circle with inserting triangles and using good ole Pythagoras' famous a
+b
=c
) of getting more digits is quite easy, albeit tedious working, this may not lead to desired results (on earth, the first to get this far were probably the Chinese in roughly 300 AD).

* In Richard Feynman's memoirs, he talks about his days safecracking at the atomic research labs at Los Alamos. The key? Everyone set their safe combinations to 31-41-59 (or occasionally, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulers_number 27-18-28]]).
** Richard Feynman also discovered (or at least was the first to comment on) the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_Point Feynman point]], a string of 6 digits beginning at the 762nd digit of pi, all of which are "9". Feynman joked that if he had a good enough memory, he'd quote the first 767 digits of pi, ending "9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_decimal and so on...]]"

* [[http://zs1.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100130.gif This]] SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal Comic.

* Colin from "An Abundance of Katherines" memorized the first 99 digits of pi when he was ten by making up a 99-word sentence in which each letter of each word corresponds to the digit of pi (a=1, b=2, etc.).

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* Hey kids, here's a fun tip! If you want to impress/intimidate people with your mathematical knowledge, try memorizing the first 10 or so digits of pi, and listing those off before improvising a string of random-sounding numbers. Odds are, people are going to take your word for it after 3.141, so your gibberish numbers will seem like exhaustively memorized fact. Ladies love it!
** Go ahead, try it. This lady will correct you.
*** I must apologize, but that is nothing to be proud of.
** That won't fly in this part of the internet, kid.
** Didn't work for this troper since his friends knew 11 digits of pi (same as him).

* In ''Netrunner'' collectible card game there exists a card
"[[http://www.arasaka.de/content/articles/trq/trq17/article5.html PI in the 'Face]]"; its cover art includes a decimal expansion of the number Pi.

* A ''litera'' mouthful of pi- http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=pi+tattoo#/dfftlb