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Because You Can Never Have Too Much Pi
Pi to 50 decimal places appears on the crown of this hat. The pattern makes a cozy beanie, or a fez if you felt it!
Thanks to Jaxbuni for the use of her Pi Mitts chart!
I used a mystery pure new wool (approximately half a skein of each colour) for the original: the pattern contains suggestions for suitable alternatives. If you try any of these, let me know how it works out. Ahem.
Fun Facts About Π:
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50dp is overkill. Only 39 decimal places of Π are required to calculate anything to redundant levels of precision - for example, you could navigate across the known universe and be no more than one atom’s width from your intended destination at the end. More than my satnav can manage…
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The Guinness World Record for memorising Π is held by Lu Chao - 67,890 digits. Some people really have nothing better to do.
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Π is known to 10 trillion dp - calculated by Shigero Kondo in October 2011, using an ordinary home computer. Mr Kondo was unavailable to comment at his parents’ basement, as he was waiting for a pizza delivery.
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