Story Post: [Challenge] How I wish I could memorize pi…
This is a challenge about the number pi (which I hear many of you have been memorizing…) For the purpose of this challenge, the “first digit” of pi is the 3 at the start; the second digit is the 1 after the decimal point, the third digit is the 4 after that, and so on.
The only posts that count for this challenge are comments to this post that follow a certain format:
- A sequence of digits of pi from 6 to 60 digits long inclusive
- In square brackets, the position of the last digit of your sequence in pi
- Optionally, other commentary
Also, each sequence of digits must follow on from the previous one, with the first sequence starting at the first digit (for instance, if the first two people each went for 6-digit sequences, the comments might look like (person 1) 3.14159 [6] (person 2) 365358 [12]. You can make any number of comments of this form, until the challenge ends; however, you must obey daily action timing when making the comments (i.e. you can only make one such comment per day, and each such comment must be at least six hours after any previous such comment you made, even if they’re on different days). The scoring on this contest depends on the average (arithmetic mean) value of one of your sequences (e.g. 3.14159 scores 3.8333333…, the average of those six numbers):
- To succeed at this challenge, at least one of your comments must have an average of 5 or more.
- To become the champion of this challenge, you must get the highest average amongst all comments.
- This challenge ends once the thousandth digit of pi is contained in a sequence, or on Monday if the thousandth digit hasn’t been reached by then.
Good luck, everyone!
Of course, nobody could do 1000 digits from memory, but a cheat sheet is circulating amongst the contestants; see this list of digits of pi (make sure nobody’s edited it to something incorrect first!).
Bucky:
3.14159265358979[15]
I win unless the 1000th digit of pi is 0