Piphilologie

Auteur : Antreas P. Hatzipolakis

• 1. DESCRIPTION:
  Piphilology is a collection of Pi mnemonics (ie. sentences to memorize the first digits of pi) and poems related to pi.
  pi = 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510....
• 2. CONTENTS:
  Mnemonics of Type I (The length of the n-th word = The n-th digit of Pi):
  Mnemonics of Type II (3.14159... = Three (point) One Four One Five Nine...):
  Mnemonics of Type III (Other Types):
  Appendices : 1/pi, e, c, sqrts mnemonics in several languages.
• 3. REFERENCES:
  Beckmann, Petr : The History of Pi. St. Martin's Press. New York, 1971.
  Gardner, Martin : Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Penguin Books
  Moritz, Robert Eduard : Memorabilia Mathematica.
  The Philomath's Quotation Book. The MAA. Printed in the USA [1993] (1st. ed. 1914)

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Pi MNEMONICS. I (up)
Mnemonic Type: The length of the n-th word = the n-th digit of Pi

• ALBANIAN
  Text :
  Kur e shoh e mesoj sigurisht.
  Translation :
  When I see it, I memorize it for sure.
  From :
  Robert Nesimi
  
• BRETON
  Text :
  Piv a zebr a-walc'h dimerc'her
  Ne lavaro netra, tud Breizh!
  (by Leslie Sitek)
  Translations (English - French):
  Who eats  enough wednesday?
  she will say nothing, people from Brittany!
  ---------
  Qui mange assez le mercredi?
  Elle ne dira rien, gens de Bretagne!
  From :
  Leslie Sitek
  
• BULGARIAN
  Text :
  kak e leko i bqrzo iz(ch)isleno pi kogato znae(sh)  kak.
  From :
  Dragomir R. Radev <radev@news.cs.columbia.edu>
  Translation :
  How is easy and fast computed  Pi when (you) know how.
  From :
  Daniel Nikovski
  
• CATALAN
  Text :
  Ell i ella, l'unica esperanca de tindre fills que tenen,
  romandra soterrada aquesta primavera.
  (by Vicent Tarrazona i Rubio)
  Translation* :
  Him and her, the last oportunity that they have to have
  (I don't know if this is correct) children will be XXXX (1) this XXXX (2)
  (1) I don't know the correct translation of something that firstly you can
  see it
  but after it you can't see it. Or something forgive.
  (2) The station of the year that takes february, march , april and may
  From :
  Vicent Tarrazona i Rubio
  *Igor Markov's Note:
  The whole thing should read (if you don't mind "smoothening"):
  Him and her, their last hope for having children may turn into a mirage
  this spring.
  
• CORNISH
  Text :
  Yma'n scol a-gleth, kendyrewy, ha ottoma eglos, ryp carjy dyscajor.
  (by Leslie Sitek)
  Translation :
  The school is on the lefthand, cousins, and this is the church near
  the garage of the teacher.
  From :
  Leslie Sitek
  
• CZECH
  1
  Text :
  Lin a kapr u hraze 
  Prohledli si rybare
  Udici mel novou
  jikrnaci neuplovou  
  Translation :
  Tench and carp by the dam
  had a look at fisherman
  His rod and line was brand new
  Spawners won't swim away
  From :
  Jan Burle
  2
  Text :
  Jak a rada a prnda vozzralka ja byvala kazdy den vecer soustala ...
  From :
  J. Hajek <rcjanh@urc.tue.nl>
  Translation :
  How glad and 'prnda' drunk I used to be every night diging with you.
  (prnda = female untrans. slang)
  From :
  Martin Dobrucky <Martin.Dobrucky@rec.uniba.sk>
  
• DUTCH
  1
  Text :
  Eva o lief, o zoete hartedief uw blauwe oogen zyn wreed bedrogen.
  Translation (word-by-word):
  Eve, oh love, oh sweet darling your blue eyes are cruelly deceived.
  From :
  J.W.J. Heijnsdijk <heijnsd@dutikos.twi.tudelft.nl>
  2
  Text :
  Wie U kent, o getal, belangrijk en gepast,
  leert ook andre waarhean ankervast.
  Translation :
  Who of you knows, o number, important and just,
  also learns other truths anchored fast.
  From :
  W.L. van der Poel <W.L.vanderPoel@twi.tudelft.nl>
  3
  Text :
  Wie U eens (pi) heeft verzonnen,
  in aloude tijden,
  was nooit gebonnen,
  inderdaad spoedig geaindigd,
  als hij had voorzien,
  welk gezeur de cijfers bian.
  Translation :
  Who of you once (pi) has thought up
  in very old times,
  never had begun [Dutch spelling error "begonnen"]
  indeed soon had ended
  if he had foreseen
  which trouble the cyphers (digits) offer.
  From :
  W.L. van der Poel <W.L.vanderPoel@twi.tudelft.nl>
  4
  Text :
  Ook u kunt u zeker vergissen;
  Uw zwakke brein kan altijd verkeerd beslissen.
  Translation :
  Certainly also you can be wrong;
  Your weaker brain can always decide wrong.
  From :
  Leslie Sitek <siteklj@pi.net>
  5
  Text :
  K(ij)k, 't moet u zeker verheugen te kunnen geven dit getal.
  Translation :
  Look, I should please you, to be able to give you this number.
  From :
  Leslie Sitek <siteklj@pi.net>
  
• ENGLISH
  1
  Text :
  Yes, I have a number. [+]
  From :
  Simon Plouffe <plouffe@cecm.sfu.ca>
  2
  Text :
  How I wish I
  Could calculate pie. [+]
  Source :
  http://www.el.net/~sbull/ssgi/tips.html
  3
  Text :
  May I have a large container of coffee?
  Sources:
  Gardner, p. 92
  http://www.afn.org/~vaxu/Stuff/Humor/mnemonic.txt
  4
  Text :
  See, I have a rhyme assisting
  my feeble brain,
  its tasks oft-times resisting.
  Source :
  http://www.afn.org/~vaxu/Stuff/Humor/mnemonic.txt
  5
  Text :
  How I wish I could recollect of circle round
  The exact relation Archimede unwound.
  Source :
  http://meta2.stanford.edu/~geddis/funny/quotes/sayings.vol-6
  6
  Text :
  How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters
  involving quantum mechanics.
  (by  Sir James Jeans)
  Source :
  Gardner, p. 92
  6X-a
  Text :
  How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures
  involving quantum mechanics.
  All of thy geometry, Herr Planck, is fairly hard...
  Source :
  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
  6X-b
  Text :
  How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters
  involving quantum mechanics.
  One is, yes, adequate even enough to produce some fun and pleasure
  for an instant, miserably brief.
  Source :
  http://www.afn.org/~vaxu/Stuff/Humor/mnemonic.txt
  6X-c
  Text : [167 digits]
  How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the tough lectures
  involving quantum mechanics, but we did estimate some digits by
  making very bad, not accurate, but so greatly efficient tools!  *
  By dropping valuable wood, a dedicated student -- I, Volokh, Alexander,
  can determine beautiful and curious stuff, O! *
  Smart, gorgeous me! *
  Descartes himself knew wonderful ways that could ascertain it too! *
  Revered, glorious -- a wicked dude! *
  Behold an unending number -- pi! *
  Thinkers' ceaseless agonizing produces little, if anything.*
  For this constant, it stops not -- just as e, I suppose.*
  Vainly ancient geometers computed it -- a task undoable.*
  Legendre, Adrien Marie: "I say pi rational is not!" *
  Adrien proved this theorem. *
  Therefore, the doubters have made errors.*
  (Everybody that's Greek.) *
  Today, counting is as bad a problem as years ago, maybe centuries even. *
  Moreover, I do consider that variable x, y, z, wouldn't much avail. *
  Pi, imaginary, like i? *
  No, buffoon! *
  (Note: Insert a 0 after the end [*] of each sentence.)
  by Alexander "Sasha" Volokh, David Tazartes, Steve LaCombe
  Sources:
  http://www.mathpro.com:80/math/archive/iams/vol10.ascii
  http://sashimi.wwa.com/~stan/archive/iams/vol10.ascii
  7
  Text :
  Now I wish I could recollect pi.
  Eureka cried the great inventor.
  Christmas Pudding Christmas Pie
  Is the problem's very center.
  From :
  Russ Brown <russ@userlab.com>
  8
  Text :
  Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
  In sacred truth and rigid spelling
  Numerical sprites elucidate
  For me the lexicon's dull weight.
  Source :
  http://www.webcom.com:80/~geomanda/mnemonics.html
  8V
  Text :
  Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
  In mystic force and magic spelling;
  Celestial sprites elucidate
  All my own striving can't relate.
  From : c1prasad@watson.ibm.com
  Joachim Verhagen <verhagen@fys.ruu.nl> : Science Jokes
  8X-a
  Text :
  Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
  In sacred truth and rigid spelling
  Numerical sprites elucidate
  for me the lexicon's full weight.
  If nature gain, who can complain
  tho' Doc Johnson fulminate.
  From : Stephan Meyers <stephan@artn.iit.edu>
  Joachim Verhagen <verhagen@fys.ruu.nl> : Science Jokes
  8X-b
  Text :
  Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
  In mystic force and magic spelling
  Celestial sprites elucidate
  All my own striving can't relate.
  Or locate they who can cogitate
  And so finally terminate. Finis.
  From : SHERE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
  http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/PUZZLES/pi_song
  9
  Text :
  But a time I spent wandering in bloomy night;
  Yon tower, tinkling chimewise, loftily opportune.
  Out, up, and together came sudden to Sunday rite,
  The one solemnly off to correct plenilune.
  (by Joseph Shipley,1960)
  Source :
  http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm
  10
  Text :
  Now I will a rhyme construct
  By chosen words the young instruct
  Cunningly devised endeavour
  Con it and remember ever
  Widths in circle, here you see
  Stretch'd out in strange obscurity.
  From :
  Darren Rigby <djrigby@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
  11
  Text :
  Now I, even I, would celebrate
  In rhymes inapt, the great
  Immortal Syracusan, rivaled nevermore,
  Who in his wondrous lore,
  Passed on before,
  Left men his guidance
  How to circles mensurate.
  (by Adam C. Orr  In: Literary Digest, vol. 32 (1906), p. 84)
  Sources:
  Moritz, p. 373, #2127
  Gardner, p. 93 : inapt -> unapt; Read rivaled instead of rivalled
  12
  Text : [402 first digits]
  For a time I stood pondering on circle sizes. ........ THE END.
  (by Michael Keith <s6sj7gt@aol.com>)
  Sources:
  Michael Keith, Circle Digits : A Self-Referential Story.
  Mathematical Intelligencer, vol.8 (1986), no.3, pp. 56-57
  http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/people/jsm/Humor/pimnemonic
  <Problem?  e-mail me for a text copy.>
  13
  Text : [first 740 digits]
  Poe, E.
  Near A Raven
  (...)
  -- Original: E. Poe
  -- Redone by measuring circles.
  (by Mike Keith <s6sj7gt@aol.com>)
  Source :
  http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm
  <Problem?  e-mail me for a text copy.>
  14
  (Special type)
  From :s6sj7gt@aol.com (S6sj7gt)
  Date:21 Jan 1996 01:37:58 -0500
  Subject:alt.Poe.versifications.experimentalize!.AANVVVize!.do!
  Newsgroups:alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb
  (by Mike Keith <s6sj7gt@aol.com>)
  Source :
  http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikeaan.htm
  <Problem?  e-mail me for a text copy.>
  
• FRENCH
  1
  Text :
  Que j'aime a faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages !
  Immortel Archimede, artiste, ingenieur,
  Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ?
  Pour moi, ton probleme eut de pareils avantages.
  Source :
  Beckmann, p. 108
  Translation :
  How I like to make known a number useful to wizards!
  Immortal Archimedes, artist, engineer,
  Who can estimate the value of your judgment?
  For me, your problem had similar advantages.
  From :
  Lew Dion <lew@ecf.toronto.edu>
  1X
  Text :
  1.  Que j'aime a faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages.
  2.  Glorieux Archimede, artiste ingenieux !
  3.  Toi, de qui Syracuse, aime encore la gloire,
  4.  Soit ton nom conserve par de savants grimoires.
  5.  Jadis, mysterieux, un probleme existait.
  6.  Tout l'admirable procede (l'oeuvre etonnante !)
  7.  Que Pythagore decouvrit aux anciens Grecs :
  8.  O quadrature ! Vieux tourment du philosophe !
  Sibylline rondeur!
  9.  Trop longtemps vous avez defie Pythagore et ses
  imitateurs !
  10.  Comment integrer l'espace plan circulaire ?
  11.  Thales tu tomberas ! Platon tu desesperes !
  12.  Apparait Archimede :
  13.  Archimede inscrira dedans un hexagone :
  14.  Appreciera son aire fonction du rayon ;
  15.  Pas trop ne s'y tiendra !
  16.  Dedoublera chaque element anterieur,
  17.  Toujours de l'orbe calculee approchera ;
  18.  Laquelle limite donne l'arc,
  19.  La longueur de cet inquietant cercle,
  20.  Ennemi trop rebelle !
  21.  Professeur, enseignez son probleme avec zele ...
  You can change lines 11 et 12 to
  11'. Former un triangle auquel il equivaudra ?
  12'. Nouvelle invention :
  and lines 18 and 19 to
  18'. Definira limite ; enfin, l'arc,
  19'. le limiteur de cet inquietant cercle
  {0<->10}
  Translation :
  1.  Oh do I like to teach a useful number to the wise men.
  2.  Glorious Archimedes, ingenious artist !
  3.  You, from Syracuse, still like the glory,
  4.  Be your name preserved by erudite Wizard's almanacs .
  5.  Once, mysterious, a problem existed.
  6.  All the admirable process (the astonishing work !)
  7.  That Pythagoras uncovered to the ancient Greeks :
  8.  O quadrature ! Old torment of the philosopher! Sibylline roundness!
  9.  Too long you have challenged Pythagoras and his imitators !
  10.  How to integrate the flat circular space?
  11.  Thales you will fall ! Plato you despair !
  12.  Appears Archimedes :
  13.  Archimedes will inscribe inside an hexagon :
  14.  Will estimate its surface function of the radius ;
  15.  Not too much will confine himself to it !
  16.  Will split each previous element,
  17.  Always of the calculated orb will approach ;
  18.  Whose limit gives the arc.
  19.  The length of this disquieting circle,
  20.  Too rebellious enemy !
  21.  Professor, teach his problem zealously...
  11'. Form a triangle to which it will be equivalent ?
  12'. New invention :
  
  18'. Will define limit ; finally, the arc,
  19'. The boundary of this disquieting circle,
  From :
  Daniel Kobler <kobler@dma.epfl.ch>
  
• GERMAN
  1
  Text :
  Gib, o Gott, o Guter,
  F(ae)higkeit zu lernen
  einem, ach, armen Gejagten, Verzagten, Examina Ochsenden;
  gib du ihm Verstand, auch Talent.
  From :
  Markus Alefeld <alefeld@sigma.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de>
  Translation :
  Grant, o god, o gracious [god],
  capacity for learning
  to an, alas!, poor harassed [person], discouraged [one], exams swotting [one];
  grant him intelligence, as well as talent.
  From :
  Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
  2
  Text :
  Wie o! dies (pi)
  macht ernstlich so vielen viele M(ue)h!
  Lernt immerhin, J(ue)nglinge, leichte Verselein,
  Wie so zum Beispiel dies d(ue)rfte zu merken sein!
  (by  Weinmeister, 1878. In:
  E. Beutel : Die Quadratur des Kreises. Tuebner, Leipzig 1951)
  Translation :
  How o this pi
  gives so many people so much real trouble!
  Learn after all, young mans, easy verses,
  how such for instance this should be easy to keep in mind!
  From :
  Dr. Uwe Wuerker <uwe.wuerker@Mathematik.TU-Chemnitz.DE>
  2X
  Text :
  There is an extension by H. Schnell (1911), viz.
  Mache niemand so traurige Gedichte!
  5 0 2  8 8
  Translation :
  Nobody (= 0) shall concoct so sad poems!
  Source :
  Walter Lietzmann: "Lustiges und Merkwuerdiges von Zahlen und Formen", 8.,
  durchgesehene Auflage, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Goettingen (1955)
  From :
  Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
  Note:
  Maybe the Scnell's extension contains one more line, since
  pi = 3.14159265358979323846264 *3383279* 50288 ...........
  3
  Text :
  Dir, o Held, o alter Philosoph, du Riesen-Genie!
  Wie viele Tausende bewundern Geister,
  Himmlisch wie du und g(oe)ttlich! -
  Noch reiner in Aeonen
  Wird das uns strahlen,
  Wie im lichten Morgenrot!
  (In: E. Beutel : Die Quadratur des Kreises. Tuebner, Leipzig 1951)
  Translation :
  (To) You, o hero, o old philosopher, You great genius!
  How many thousand (men) are admiring intellects,
  celestial and divine like you!
  Still more pure in ages
  this will us shining,
  like in bright dawn!
  From :
  Dr. Uwe Wuerker <uwe.wuerker@Mathematik.TU-Chemnitz.DE>
  3V
  Text :
  Dir, o Held, o edler Philosoph,
  du hehrer Geist, den viele Tausende bewundern!
  Dauernd erstrahlt, was du uns beschert.
  Noch klarer in Fernen wird das uns leuchten,
  was du erdacht, Erzdenker,
  stets unersch(oe)pft, du edelster Erfinder!
  (by H. Schnell, 1911)
  {0<->10}
  Translation :
  To thee, o hero, o noble philosopher,
  you august genius, whom many thousands admire!
  What you have bestowed us with will outstand [verbatim: shine] forever.
  What you have invented, archithinker,
  will light us even more lucidly, a long way off,
  ever inexhaustedly, you most noble inventor.
  Source :
  Walter Lietzmann: "Lustiges und Merkwuerdiges von Zahlen und Formen", 8.,
  durchgesehene Auflage, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Goettingen (1955)
  From :
  Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
  4
  Text :
  Ein braver Schueler sass zu Haus vor seiner Rechenkladde
  und ueberdacht' die Hausarbeit, die er zu machen hatte.
  Dann fing er auch zu zeichnen an, und alles stimmt' genau,
  bis er an eine Stelle kam, da wurd' die Sache mau.
  Er dachte lange drueber nach, wo denn der Fehler waer',
  und schliesslich fand er ihn denn auch, und voller
  Wut rief er:
  "Es ist wohl Pi die Groesse, die mir den Kram verdreht;
  ist's doch, o jerum, schwierig, zu wissen, wof(ue)r
  sie steht!"
  Translation :
  A well-behaved pupil sat at home facing his mathematics notebook
  and pondered about the homework he had to do.
  Then he also started drawing, and everything was
  entirely correct --
  until he came to a point where matters got worse.
  He pondered long a time where the error could possibly be,
  and eventually he found it, and in a rage he exclamied:
  "Apparently, pi is the entity that puzzles matters for me,
  well, it is, alas, difficult to know what it stands for!"
  Source :
  Walter Lietzmann: "Lustiges und Merkwuerdiges von Zahlen und Formen", 8.,
  durchgesehene Auflage, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Goettingen (1955)
  Comment:
  "Lietzmann reports that this poem has been written by a pupil, and that it
  has been
  published in "Zeitschrift fuer mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen
  Unterricht",
  in 1921."
  From :
  Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
  
• GREEK
  1
  Text :
  {3} o pais o (ch)u(ch)lo peri(ph)oran pr gra(ph)on
  {5} ou(ch) eu(th)us euporese diametron metroun.
  Analogias gar en men eu(ph)orton (ch)ara,
  a(ch)enia de mnesis alla nun e(ph)e,
  "o(ch)e(ps)as(th)e pos me Knoxios paregorei".
  (by Ronald Knox, _The Salopian_ in 1917. In: The Mathematical Magpie)
  Note:
  For Greek letters used : (ch) for chi, (e) for both epsillon and eta,
  (ph) for phi, (o) for both omicron and omega, and (th) for theta.
  From :
  Christopher Jones <chjones@wwa.com>
  2
  Text :
  Aei o 9eos o Megas gewmetrei
  to kykloy mhkos ina orish diametrw
  parhgagen ari9mon aperanton
  kai on fey oydepote olon
  9nhtoi 9a eyrwsi.
  (where: h = eta, 9 = theta, y = upsilon, w = omega)
  (by Nikolaos I. Hatzidakis, 1924
  In: Bulletin of the Greek Mathematical Society  5(1924))
  Translation :
  Great God ever geometrizes
  To define the circle length by its diameter
  Produced an endless number
  Which whole, alas, mortals
  Will never find.
  (by aph)
  
• HUNGARIAN
  Text :
  Nem a regi s durva kozelites  
  mi szotol szoig igy kijon
  betuiket szamlalva
  Ludolph eredmenye mar
  ha itt vegezzuk husz jegyen,
  de rendre kijo meg tiz pontosan 
  azt is bizvast igerhetem.
  (by Szasz Pal)
  Translation :
  It's not the old approximation
  which we get
  counting the figures
  the result of Ludolph
  with 20 figures
  but we get 10 more precisely
  I can promise.
  From :
  Hadnagy Eva <vica@vma.bme.hu>
  Peter Laszlo <peter@vma.bme.hu>
  
• IRISH
  Text :
  Seo i</> -- deis
  a rinne saineolai</>
  o</>n nGre</>ig du</>inn
  don obair ac<.>rannac<.>.
  Arcaime</>id iolda</>na arde</>irime,
  cru</> na bua fi</>ora</>rsa,
  fear de</>anta an re</>itig<.>  g<.>lic.
  Fiu</> ma</>s anabarrac<.> mo</>r,
  is re</>iteac<.> fi</>org<.>asta.
  (by Marion Gunn)
  Seo i -- deis
  a rinne saineolai
  on nGreig duinn
  don obair acrannac.
  Arcaimeid ioldana ardeirime,
  cru na bua fiorarsa,
  fear deanta an reitig glic.
  Fiu mas anabarrac mor,
  is reiteac fiorgasta.
  Translation :
  Here it is -- a facility
  computed for us by a Greek
  scientist to do complicated work.
  Brilliant, multi-talented Archimedes,
  of truly ancient and victorious lineange,
  is the man who devised this cool formula.
  Even though it is very large, it is still
  a really neat computation!
  From :
  Marion GUNN <MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
  
• ITALIAN
  1
  Text :
  Ave o Roma o Madre gagliarda di latine
  virtu che tanto luminoso splendore
  prodiga spargesti con la tua saggezza.
  Source :
  http://eulero.cineca.it/~barozzi/mathematica/listati/cap07.txt
  Translation :
  "Ave o Roma" (= Hello, Rome) strong mother of latine
  virtue you gave generously out
  the brightness of your wisdom.
  From :
  Patrizio Frosini <patrizio@dm.unibo.it>
  2
  Text :
  Che  n' ebbe d' utile Archimede da ustori vetri sua somma scoperta ?
  From :
  Isidoro Ferrante <ferrante@galileo.pi.infn.it>
  Translation :
  What good came to Archimede from his immense discover of "ustori vetri"
  (ustori vetri [ancient Italian] = specchi ustori = burning mirrors)
  From :
  Giuseppe Rodriguez <gppe@tex.unica.it>
  
• LATIN
  Text :
  {3} I nunc, O Baili, Parnassum et desere rupem,
  Dic sacra Peridium deteriora quadris!
  Subsidium hoc ad vos, quamquam leve,
  fertur ab hymnis quos dat vox Sophocli
  (non in utroque probrumst?).
  (by Ronald Knox, _The Salopian_ in 1917
  In: The Mathematical Magpie)
  Translation :
  Go now, O Bailey, and forsake Parnassus' cliff;
  say that the Muses' sacred rites are less important than squares!
  "This help is bourne to you, although it is slight,
  from the hymns which the voice of Sophocles gives
  (is that not a reproach on both?)
  From :
  Christopher Jones <chjones@wwa.com>
  
• NORWEGIAN
  Text :
  Tre i skog i Norge blomstrer av,
  vinter komme,
  den kulde avkjoler mennesket.
  (by Petter Bjorstad)
  Translation :
  (The) tree in the forest of Norway looses its flowers,
  the winter is coming,
  its chill makes man cold.
  From :
  Petter Bjorstad <Petter.Bjorstad@ii.uib.no>
  
• POLISH
  1
  Text :
  Byl i jest i wieki chwalonym ow bedzie
  ktory kol obwod srednica wymierzyl.
  Translation :
  There was, there is and there will be gloryfied  for centuries
  the one who has measured the perimeter of a circle with diameter.
  From :
  Teresa Przytycka <przytyck@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
  2
  Text :
  Kto z woli i mysli zapragnie
  pi spisac cyfry - ten spisze. [+]
  Translation :
  One who will, out of his will and thought, take a desire to write down
  the digits of pi - that will write them down.
  From :
  Pawel Miklaszewicz <P.M.Miklaszewicz@city.ac.uk>
  3
  Text :
  Kto w mgle i slote
  wagarowac ma ochote,
  chyba ten ktory
  ogniscie zakochany,
  odziany wytwornie,
  gna do nog bogdanki
  pasc kornie.
  Translation :
  Who likes to skip school on a rainy and misty day, perhpaps the one
  who madly in love, smartly dressed, runs to fall humbly at the feet
  of his loved one.
  From :
  Andrzej Pindor <pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
  4
  Texts:
  a
  Daj, o pani, o boska Mnemozyno, pi liczbe,
  ktora tez zowia ponetnie ludolfina,
  pamieci przekazac tak, by jej dowolnie
  oraz szybko do pomocy uzyc,
  gdy sie *zadania* nie da inaczej rozwiazac,
  pauza - to zastapic liczbami.
  (Note: zadania, wrong word)
  b
  Daj, o pani, o boska Mnemozyno, pi liczbe,
  ktora tez zowia ponetnie ludolfina,
  pamieci przekazac tak, by jej dowolnie
  oraz szybko do pomocy uzyc,
  gdy sie *zadania* nie da inaczej rozwiazac.
  (by W. Rybczynski)
  (Note: zadania, wrong word)
  c
  Daj o Pani, o boska Mnemozyno pi liczbe ktora
  tez zowia nadobnie Ludolfina
  pamieci przekazac.
  d
  Daj o pani, o boska Mnemozyno, pi liczbe ktora
  nam zowia ponetnie Ludolfina
  Translations:
  d
  Give, o lady, o godly Mnemosine Pi number that
  is called for us temptily Ludolfine...
  From :
  a
  Wieslaw A. Dudek <dudek@graf.im.pwr.wroc.pl>
  b
  Lech Maligranda <lech@sm.luth.se>
  c
  K.Szajowski" <szajow@neyman.im.pwr.wroc.pl>
  d
  Marek Kirejczyk <mkir@rzri6f.gsi.de>
  5
  Texts:
  a
  Kuc i orac w dzien zawziecie,
  bo plonow nie-ma bez trudu
  zlocisty szczescia orkecie
  kolyszesz...
  Kuc. My nie czekajmy cudu
  robota to potega ludu.
  (by K. Cwojdzinski)
  b
  Kuc i orac w dzien zawziecie,
  bo plonow niema bez trudu.
  Zlocisty szczescia okrecie,
  kolyszesz. Kuc, bo ..........
  Translation :
  b
  Forge and plough in the daytime persistently,
  because there is no crop without labour.
  Golden ship of happiness,
  you are rolling. Forge, because ........
  From :
  a
  Lech Maligranda <lech@sm.luth.se>
  b
  Michal Misiurewicz <mmisiure@math.iupui.edu>
  And (the first two verses only):
  Marek Kirejczyk <mkir@rzri6f.gsi.de>
  6
  Text :
  Oto i wiem i pomne doskonale.
  Translation :
  Here I both know and remember perfectly.
  From :
  Marek Kirejczyk <mkir@rzri6f.gsi.de>
  
• PORTUGUESE
  1
  Text :
  Ate a nado a Maria encontrou na margem peixe bem lindo.
  Translation :
  Mary found beautiful fish on the seaside even swiming.
  From :
  Ernesto Martins <eqvm@mat.uc.pt>
  2
  Text :
  Nos e todo o mundo guardamos pi usando letra por numero.[+]
  Translation :
  We and all the world remember PI by replacing letter with number.
  From :
  Benedicto V. da Silva <dasilva@ra1.randomc.com>
  3
  Text :
  Sim, e util e facil memorizar um numero grato aos sabios.
  Translation :
  Yes, it is useful and easy to memorize a number loved by the wise.
  From :
  Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgouvea@COLBY.EDU>
  4
  Text :
  Vai 'a aula o aluno apreender um numero usado nos arcos.
  Translation :
  Goes to the class the student to aprehend a number used in archs.
  From :
  Filipe Silva <deec45@tom.fe.up.pt>
  5
  Text :
  Sou o medo e temor constante do menino vadio.
  From :
  Marcos Dias de Moura <mmoura@umabnet.ab.umd.edu>
  Translation :
  I am the constant fear and terror of lazy boys.
  From :
  Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgouvea@COLBY.EDU>
  
• ROMANIAN
  1
  Text :
  Asa e bine a scrie renumitul si utilul numar.
  Translation :
  That's the way to write the famous and useful number.
  From :
  Eleodor Marian Nichita <gt8797b@prism.gatech.edu>
  2
  Text :
  Dar e bine a vedea lucrurile de foarte multe ori.
  Translation :
  But it's good to observe at things many, many times.
  From :
  George M. Munteanu <aicimmg@gmgate.vircom.com>
  
• RUSSIAN
  1
  Text :
  (Ch)to (ya) zna(yu) o kruga(kh)? [+]
  Translation :
  What I know about circles?
  From :
  Yuri MATIYASEVICH <yumat@yumat.pdmi.ras.ru>
  2
  Texts:
  a
  (E)to (ya) zna(yu) i pomn(nyu) prekrasno,
  Pi mnogie znaki mne li(sh)ni, naprasny.
  b
  (Eh)to (ja) zna(ju) i pomn(ju) prekrasno,
  no mnogie znaki mne li(sh)ni, naprasn(ih).
  Translations:
  a
  I know and remember Pi excellently,
  but many digits are not needed, not necessary for me.
  b
  I know and remember this excellently,
  but many digits are not needed, not necessary for me.
  From :
  a
  Yuri MATIYASEVICH <yumat@yumat.pdmi.ras.ru>
  b
  Stanislav Shalunov <shalunov@math.wisc.edu>
  3
  Text :
  Kto i (sh)ut(ia) i skoro po(zh)elaet#
  pi uznat# (ts)yfr# u(zh)# znaet.
  Note:  # = Russian letters
  http://www.mathpro.com:80/math/archive/iams/vol10.ascii
  http://sashimi.wwa.com/~stan/archive/iams/vol10.ascii
  Translations:
  a (word-by-word)
  Who [] joking and quickly wishes  [of] Pi [to] learn [the] digits
  already knows [them]
  From : Igor Markov <imarkov@math.ucla.edu>
  b
  Who in joyful and rapid manner wishes to know the Pi, already knows...
  From : Sergei Yakovenko <yakov@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il>
  c
  Who and joking and fast wants pi learn digits already knows.
  Meaning something like: If you want to learn the digits of pi, fun
  and fast, you already know them.
  From : Dimitri Tischenko <Dimitri_Tischenko@proteon.nl>
  3V
  Text :
  Kto i (sh)ut(ia) i skoro po(zh)elaet#
  pi uznat#  (ch)islo u(zh)# znaet.
  (Note:  # = Russian letters)
  Translation :
  If one would like to know pi either for joke or seriously,
  he already knows it.
  From :
  Eldar A. Musaev <eldar@pdmi.ras.ru>
  4
  Text :
  U(ch)i i znaj v (ch)isle izvestnom
  za cifroj cifru bez o(sh)ibki.
  Translations:
  Learn and know in the famous number
  Digit after digit without mistakes.
  or : A digit after a digit without a mistake.
  From :
  Yury Mukharsky <muh@physics.berkeley.edu >
  Vladimir Smirnov <vladimir@chinook.physics.utoronto.ca>
  5
  Text :
  <Ch>to <ja> zna[ju] o <ch>isle iskussnom
  Na pam<ia>t<b> <ts>yfry ego zubr<ia>,
  Retoriki starinnoj prizrak probu<zh>da<ja> ...
  (by Igor Markov)
  Translation :
  What do I know about the artful number [by]
  Learning by heart its digits [and]
  wakening the ghost of the ancient rhetorics ?
  From :
  Igor Markov <imarkov@math.ucla.edu>
  
• SLOVAK
  1
  Text :
  Daj o Boze o velky zapamatat
  si takyto cisel rad velky naspamat.
  
  Translation (word-by-word):
  [Please] Give oh Lord oh great [that I can] remember
  myself such a [of] numbers row great by heart.
  From :
  Vladimir Benko <jazybenk@savba.savba.sk>
  2
  Text :
  Sam u seba v hlave , magickeho PI , cislic desat mam .
  Translation :
  Myself in myself in head, magic PI, digits ten have got.
  From :
  Martin Dobrucky <Martin.Dobrucky@rec.uniba.sk>
  
• SLOVENIAN
  1
  Text :
  Sem z ovco v hlevu.
  Translation :
  [I] am with [a] sheep in [a] barn.
  From :
  Marjeta Cedilnik <marjeta@bambam.cis.udel.edu>
  2
  Text :
  Naj z rimo v pesmi pocastimo...
  Translation :
  Let's with rhyme in [this] poem praise...
  From :
  Marjeta Cedilnik <marjeta@bambam.cis.udel.edu>
  
• SPANISH
  1
  Text :
  Con 1 palo y 5 ladrillos se pueden hacer mil cosas.
  Translation :
  With 1 stick and 5 bricks a thousand things can be made.
  From :
  Julio Zuniga <jzuniga@Chile.attgis.COM>
  2
  Text :
  Sol y Luna y Cielo proclaman al Divino Autor del Cosmo.
  Translation :
  Sun and Moon and Skies proclaim the Divine Author of the Universe.
  From :
  Julio Zuniga <jzuniga@Chile.attgis.COM>
  
• SWEDISH
   1
  Text :
  Hor I alla i kvall Arkimedes ju lovade komma
  Han skall pitalets vanskliga siffror framlagga for Er
  Dem forvisso ratt mangen ej minnes utan ett ode
  Tjugotva giv at taljarn, namnarens varde noll sju. [+]
  (by Gustaf Lindborg)
  Note: noll (=zero) stands for the digit 0.
  Translation :
  Listen you all tonight Arkimedes promised to come
  He will the pi numeber's the tricky digits produce for you
  They are truly not remembered by most people without a poem
  (the old Viking type)
  Twentytwo give to the numerator, the denominator's value zero seven.
  From :
  Andrejs Dunkels <andrejs@sm.luth.se>
  1V
  Text :
  Hor, i alla i kvall Arkimedes ju lovade komma
  han skall pitalets mystifika siffror klarlagga for er
  dem forvisso ratt mangen ej minnes utan ett ode
  tjugotva giv at taljarn namnarens varde noll sju. [+]
  From :
  Ingemar Nilsson  <ingemar@sm.luth.se>
  2
  Text :
  Ack, o fasa, (pi) numer forringas
  ty skolan later var adept itvingas
  raknelara medelst raknedosa
  och sa ges tilltron till tabell en dyster kosa.
  Nej, lat istdllet dem nu tokpoem bibringas!
  Translation :
  Oh no, pi is nowadays belittled
  for the school makes each student learn
  arithmetic with the help of calculators
  and thus the tables have a sad future.
  No, let us instead read silly poems!
  From :
  Frank Wikstrom <frankw@abel.math.umu.se>
  

Pi MNEMONICS. II (up)
Mnemonic Type: 3.14.. = Three (point) One Four...

• In GHINESE
  http://www.ts.umu.se/~olletg/pi/hint.html
  
• In JAPANESE
  http://www.ts.umu.se/~olletg/pi/jap.html
  
• In several LANGUAGES
  http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~eveander/beauty.html
  
• In ENGLISH
  Text :
  Three point one four one five nine,
  two six five three five eight nine,
  seven nine three two three eight four,
  six two six and a whole lot more.
  (by Rebecca Brannon; fits the tune of "America" from West Side Story)
  Source :
  http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless/pi.html
  
• JAPANESE
  3.  1  4  1  5  9 2 6  5  3 5  8  9  7  9  3  2
  san i shi i ko ku ni mu ko san go ya ku na ku san pu
  3 8  4 6 2  6 4 3 3 8 3  2  7  9 . . .
  mi ya shi ro ni mu shi san zan ya mi ni na ku
  Translation :
  3.  1 4 1  5  9   2 6  5
  san i shi i ko ku ni mu ko
  ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^
  Obstetrician  foreign country  toward look
  (Obstetrician looks to a foreign country)
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  3  5 8  9  7  9
  san go ya ku na ku
  ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
  postpartum drug  unavailable
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  3  2  3  8 4  6 2 6 4  3 3
  san pu mi ya shi ro  ni  mu shi  san zan
  ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^
  pregnant woman  all over insect  awfully
  (lots of insects around)
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  8  3 2 7  9 . . .
  ya mi  ni  na ku . . .
  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^^
  dark in  cry
  (she cries in the dark)
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  From :
  bb@mordor.com (Bun Bando)
  
• RUSSIAN
  Text :
  Chtoby nam ne oshibatsa,
  Nado pravilno prochest:
  Tri,chetyrnadcat, p'atnadcat,
  Devanosto dva i shest.
  Translation :
  To avoid mistakes
  We should read it rightly:
  Three, forteen, fifteen,
  Ninety two and six.
  From :
  Timur Kadyshev <timur@iris.mipt.ru>
  

Pi MNEMONICS. III (up)
Other Types

• INDIAN
  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~krisna/misc/pi.html
  
• CHINESE
  1
  (...)
  >>--
  >>There is a chinese poem which can lead man to memorize pi = 3.1415926535897932384262,
  it uses the chinese pronounciation, but it is difficult to translate it
  into English
  >>Li Jinming
  (...)
  The poem discribe the fowllowing Situation:
  There are a little mond and an old mond in a temple located in a mountain.
  The old mond drink wine, but the little mond must work hard.
  So the little mond is unhappy and read the poem:
  There is a temple in the mountain
  There is a pot of wine in the temple.
  You are happy with your wine drinking.
  But I am suffering from the hard work.
  You drink the wine, but I hope the wine drinking can kill you.
  In practice this can't kill you,
  So you are happy always .
  The poem which the little mond read is just
  pi = 3.1415926535897932384262 according the chinese pronunciation.
  It doesn't work like the english one, because the pronunciation of this poem
  is just like the pronunciation of pi = 3.1415926535897932384262
  From :
  Li Jinming <li@mathematik.th-darmstadt.de>
  2
  (...)
  Sixteen years ago, when I was in my middle school, my teacher told us one.
  It uses one Chinese character for one digit. Though the sounds are not very
  precise,
  it helped me to remember 23 digits of pi until now.
  This one may be very popular in China since I once saw it appeared in a
  school's
  exercise book.
  San(mountain) dian(peak) yi(one) si(temple) yi(one) hu(pot) jiu(wine),
  3 . 1 4 1 5 (1) 9
  Er(you) le(happy), wu(I) sha(killed) wu(me),
  2 6 (2) 5 3 (3) 5
  Ba(have) jiu(wine) qi(drink), jiu(wine) sha(kill) er(you),
  8 9 7 9 3 (3) 2
  Sha(kill) bu(not) si(death), le(happy) er(and) le(happy).
  3 (3) 8 4 6 (2) 2 6(2)
  (1) In Chinese, '5' should be pronounced as 'wu' instead of 'hu',
  (2) '6' should be pronounced as 'liu' or 'lu' instead of 'le',
  (3) '3' is normally pronounced as 'san', but sometimes 'sha', too.
  Hope this is meaningful.
  From :
  Wang TianXing <txwang@public.sta.net.cn>
  
• CZECH
  Motor, tesak, nebo smes haku v kamenem hrobe, nebo etc. etc.
  3 1 4  1 5 9  2 6  53 5 8 9  7 9 3 2 3 84 6 2 6
  Consonants are assigned values:
  m=3 t=1 r=4 s=5 etc.,  (...)
  (motor, knife, or a mix of hooks in the stone tomb, or ....)
  From :
  Paul J. Kriha <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz>
  ENGLISH
  it is convenient to associate each number with a picture.
  For example, 1 is a policeman ( notice the hat)
  2 is a swan
  3 is a butterfly
  4 is a young girl (Notice the hands on the hips)
  5 is a snake
  6 is a man with a swollen foot
  7 is a walking stick
  8 is a fat woman
  9 is an elephant ( notice the loop in the ear)
  0 is an egg.
  You can then make up a story in order to remember your numbers.
  Here is my one for Pi:
  I begin with 3.14 (because everyone knows that).
  The next number is 1, then 5 ....
  So, a policeman (1) eats a pie ( connection to the constant) WHO IS EATEN
  BY  A snake
  (5) who turns into an elephant (9) who meets a swan (2) RIDDEN BY a man
  with a swollen
  foot (6) etc......
  From :
  Julian E.Fitzgibbon <jfitz@maths.tcd.ie>
  
• GERMAN
  Text :
  Drei Komma Hus verbrannt und Brennabor
  bringen die Zahl Pi hervor.
  Translation :
  Three point Hus burnt, and Brandenburg [conquered]
  will render the number of Pi.
  Explanation:
  During the council of Constance, in the year 1415, Johannes Hus was condemned
  to death at the stake. Brandenburg was conquered in the year 927.
  Source :
  Walter Lietzmann: "Lustiges und Merkwuerdiges von Zahlen und Formen", 8.,
  durchgesehene Auflage, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Goettingen (1955)
  From :
  Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
  
• SPANISH
  Here's one in Spanish, based on the ordinal number for each initial letter
  (a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4, etc.) of each word in the sentence,
  "Come a discrecion ante extranos; incluso babeandote, famelico,
  entabla conversacion fluida."
  3.1415926536
  rounded off to 10 decimals.
  A loose translation may go like this,
  "Eat with discretion among strangers; even if you're drooling, phamelic,
  start a fluid conversation."
  From :
  Antonio Bouzas <Antonio.Bouzas@rosa.fis.cinvestav.mx>
  

Misc. MNEMONICS. (up)

• ENGLISH
  1
  Text :
  If inside a circle a line
  Hits the center and goes spine to spine
  And the line's length is "d"
  the circumference will be
  d times three point one four one five nine.
  (Anonymous)
  Source :
  Michael Cook <mlc@iberia.cca.rockwell.com> : Canonical List of Math Jokes
  newsgroups: rec.humor
  2
  Text :
  'Tis a favorite project of mine
  A new value of pi to assign.
  I would fix it at three
  For it's simpler, you see,
  Than three point one four one five nine.
  (by Harvey L. Carter)
  Source :
  Michael Cook <mlc@iberia.cca.rockwell.com> : Canonical List of Math Jokes
  newsgroups: rec.humor
  3
  Text :
  'Cause I couldn't see how it was done.
  Now Euler's my hero
  For I now see why zero
  (is/equals) e to the i (times) pi plus one.
  {= e^(i*pi) + 1}
  Source :
  http://primus.com/staff/paulp/useless/pi.html
  
• FRENCH
  Text :
  La circonference est fiere
  D'etre egale a 2 pi R,
  Et le cercle est tout heureux
  D'etre egal a pi R 2.
  Translation :
  The circumference is proud
  To be equal to 2*pi*r,
  And the disk is very happy
  To be equal to pi*R^2
  From :
  LEW  DION <lew@ecf.toronto.edu>
  
• NORWEGIAN
  Text :
  Mannen i maanen
  kan smile og le
  ringen rundt hodet
  er pi ganger d.
  Men vil du finne
  fjeset til mannen
  saa er formelen
  pi r i annen.
  Translation :
  The man in the moon can smile and laugh
  the ring around the head is Pi*d
  But if you want to find the face of the man
  then the formula is Pi*r^2)
  From :
  Kathrine Frey <kafrey@math.uio.no>
  

APPENDIX
Other Constants
1. 1/pi = .318310......

• ENGLISH
  Text :
  Can I discover the reciprocal?
  Note:
  The "reciprocal" stands for 10, two successive numerals.
  From :
  W.L. van der Poel <W.L.vanderPoel@twi.tudelft.nl>
  2. e = 2.718281828459....
  
• ENGLISH
  1-4
  Texts:
  To express e, remember to memorize a sentence to simplify this.
  (by John L. Greene)
  To distrupt a playroom is commonly a practice of children.
  (by Joseph J Guiteras)
  By omnibus I traveled to Brooklyn.
  (by David Mage)
  It enables a numskull to memorize a quantity of numerals.
  (by Gene Wildhoff)
  Source :
  Gardner, pp. 97 - 98
   5
  Text :
  To destroy a building, we detonate a quantity of hydrogen bombs.
  From :
  Joseph C Fineman <jcf@world.std.com>
  
• FRENCH
  Text :
  Tu aideras a rappeler ta quantite a beaucoup de docteurs amis.
  Source :
  Gardner, p. 93
  You will help to remember your quantity to many friend doctors.
  (The French sentence is quite hard to understand, what is the
  meaning of "The quantity of a person ?".)
  From :
  Philippe Basciano <Philippe.Basciano@scinfo.u-nancy.fr>
  
• GREEK
  1-2
  Texts:
  Oy synh9hs h yphresia hn dwroymai w an9rwpoi th episthmh.
  Ta aperata t' aperioda oy symmetra h algebras oy klasmata esti.
  (where: h = eta, 9 = theta, y = upsilon, w = omega)
  (by Nikolaos I. Hatzidakis, 1924
  In: Bulletin of the Greek Mathematical Society  5(1924))
  Translations:
  [It is] not ordinary the service I give, men, to science.
  [The] Endless [and] aperiodic [numbers][are] not rational,
  or are not fractions of algebra.
  (by aph)
  
• ITALIAN
  Text :
  Ai modesti o vanitosi ai violenti
  o timorosi do cantando gaio ritmo logaritmo.
  Source :
  http://eulero.cineca.it/~barozzi/mathematica/listati/cap07.txt
  Translation :
  To the modests or proud, to the violent_people or fearful
  I give, singing a happy rithm, a logaritm
  From :
  Maurizio Paolini <paolini@isa.mat.unimi.it>
  
• ROMANIAN
  Text :
  Pe numarul e savantul il stimeaza,
  E academic si formeaza
  Baza pentru logaritmi
  Translation :
  The number e, the scientist esteems it,
  it's academic and forms
  base for logarithms.
  From :
  Radu Ionicioiu <ri10001@cus.cam.ac.uk>
  
• SPANISH
  Text :
  Te aydare a recordar la cantidad a indoctos si releesme bien.
  Source :
  Gardner, p. 98
  Translation :
  If you reread me carefully,I will help you to remember the amount of
  uneducated people.
  From :
  Frederic Udina <udina@upf.es>
  3. c = 2.99792458..(the speed of light)
  
• ROMANIAN
  Text :
  Of, metrologi, metrologi,
  eruditi metrologi,
  nu fiti chiar pisalogi
  Translation :
  Oh, metrologists, metrologists,
  erudites metrologists,
  don't be so bothersome.
  From :
  Radu Ionicioiu <ri10001@cus.cam.ac.uk>
  4. Square Roots
  
• JAPANESE
  Texts:
  sqrt(2) -> "hitoyo hitoyo ni hitomigoro"
  1. 4  1 4 2 1 3  5 6
  sqrt(3) ->  "hitonamini ogoreya"
  1. 7 3 2  0 5 0 8
  sqrt(5) ->  "fuji.sanroku oroya"  (??? I'm not sure)
  2.2 3 6 0 6 8
  From :
  Hajime Hirase <hhirase@anatomy.ucl.ac.uk>