Anthonares

My friend and frequent commenter, Tom, has a fun blog entry (as well as some good investigative camera-phoning–photo credit: Tom Adams) today about a nerd who wrote out 1881 successive digits of pi on the sidewalks at UPenn.

Evidently the whole thing spanned 3 city blocks. Also, based on a somewhat-random sampling of digits, I estimate that the error rate in the digits was no higher than 2%, and probably much less as the 40 digits that Tom checked were all correct. Tom estimates it took him at least 2 hours at 4 seconds/digit, now that’s pointless devotion.