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Viral Math News: 20,000 Digits of √7

December 7, 2016Original blog post

A feel-good headline about a man who memorized 20,000 digits of √7, which nobody cares about because it isn't π.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-12-07-viral-math-news-20-000-digits-of-7/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[Figure reciting 2.64575131106459059050161575363…] "Beautiful: This man memorized 20,000 digits of √7 even though no one cares because it's not π" [Be the first to Like this.]

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Number & Arithmetic › Irrational NumbersNumber & Arithmetic › Square RootsNumber & Arithmetic › Pi
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