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Article: Learning 3.14 to 340 digits; Girl, 12, memorizes extensions of pi.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2007
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Byline: Jacqueline Reis
WORCESTER - When astronomer and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, wanted to establish his math and science credentials for Worcester Polytechnic Institute's graduating class, he pulled out his personal digital assistant and said it held pi to 11,500 decimal places.
"You never know when you'll need that information," he told the laughing crowd last weekend.
Mr. Tyson, meet Tasha Ramos. Her personal technology of choice is an MP4 player, but she keeps plenty of digits of pi on hand; they're in her head. On March 14 Tasha was crowned Pi Queen of Dr. Arthur F. Sullivan Middle ...
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