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The First and Last Digits of Pi

The Numberphile Podcast

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Fireman's Final Track

The final track was named in honor of the great physicist, richard fineman. He had this joke where he said it would be wonderful to memorize pie up to where six nines occur in a row. We've taken every nine as an event and then we've summed the sume the digits between h 9. And i've used that as the time signature. So kind of like you did with null, but using nines instead of, instead of zeros exactly.

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