It’s Pi Day today

A little creative tinkering yielded this mnemonic for [tex]\pi[/tex] Pi (apologies, latex died) to 15 places.

“How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving Euclid’s algorithm”

I’ve substituted “quantum mechanics” with “Euclid’s algorithm”, not exactly ideal since it is usually called Euclidean algorithm, plus do you count that apostrophe? But at least it is about maths and my students are doing number theory. However, it still needs to be tinkered with due to the mentioning of that certain beverage which can be construed as offensive to certain Asian sentiments (or values.) This is after all, not Australia!

So the revised version is:
“How I need a snack, chocolate of course, after the heavy lectures involving Euclid’s algorithm”

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