The LRC quickly filled up with City College students this Pi Day in hopes of memorizing the most digits of pi. The winner won bragging rights and a fresh baked apple pie, donated by the math department.
The room was quiet as students one by one stepped up to the board and wrote the never-ending digits. Faren Lee, accounting major, filled up the board with 87 digits before finishing. Lee said he used a special strategy to help him finish strong.
“I use the numbers and make them into stories,” Lee said, “stories of my life, it helps remember more.”
Pi is the math symbol for the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter – 3.14. March 14 represents the number pi in the 3/14 month/day format. The day is celebrated as National Pi Day.
Next up was City College student Joshua Pauly, who finished with 93 digits of pi. “In the 7th grade I had the first 30 memorized by heart but I did 75 for extra credit,” Pauly said.
Pauly said he saw the Pi Day contest fliers around campus early in the month and had to give it a shot. “I came here for the boasting rights,” joked Pauly.
Before the numbers competition, students were sent on a scavenger hunt across the campus as part of the celebration.
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As students challenged themselves the audience grew more and more eager watching the board stretch across with numbers.
Travell Criner was the last contestant and very eager to compete. After a couple minutes of silence and white board almost halfway filled, Criner finished with 133 digits of pi.
The room clapped and cheered as Criner was clearly the winner of the Pi Day challenge.
“About three months ago I had an energy drink and decided it would be a cool idea to see how many digits of pi I could remember,” said Criner. “I got to about 65. The day after I realized that that’s a large number, so I tried to stretch it to see how many I could get and got to 100, so you know, I had to brag about it. Once I realized it was competition worthy I tried to get to 200 but I kept stopping at 133.”
The contestants were all smiles as they lined up for photos. Each held a prize of a print card of different denominations donated by the College Store in their hands.
