Have you ever thought about how we can combine a word and a number?Everyone thinks that mathematics is a very logical and strict science where there is no place for poetry.Have you ever tried to memorize number π, for example. There is a technique which is called Piphilology. Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. The word is a play on the word "pi" itself and of the linguistic field of philology.The result of all "piphilologists" is piems- which are poems that represent π in a way such that the length of each word (in letters) represents a digit.Here is an example of a piem: "How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics." Notice how the first word has three letters, the second word has one, the third has four, the fourth has one, the fifth has five, and so on. In longer examples, 10-letter words are used to represent the digit zero, and this rule is extended to handle repeated digits in so-called Pilish writing. The Cadaeic Cadenza records the first 3834 digits of π in this manner, and a 10,000-word novel, Not A Wake, has now been written accordingly.However, piems prove to be inefficient for large memorizations of pi. Other methods include remembering patterns in the numbers (for instance, the year 1971 appears in the first fifty digits of pi) and the method of loci (which has been used to memorize π to 67,890 digits).In the picture below you seethe first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image.You have a lot work for piems as you can see=)You can try to write your own piem and share it.We will be happy to read piems from you.
