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Memorize the first 15 digits of PI

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Migrated to http://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/first-15-digits-of-pi/.

Look at this verse:

How I want a drink
alcoholic of course
After the heavy lectures
involving complex functions

Take the length of the words and you get the first 15 digits of PI.

If you don't believe me, then here is the proof:

import sys
import math

s = """
How I want a drink
alcoholic of course
After the heavy lectures
involving complex functions
"""

print [len(w) for w in s.split()]
print math.pi

Output:

[3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 9]
3.14159265359   # the last digit is rounded here

Read more on PI at http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/.

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