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From: S6sj7gt@aol.com
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:48:30 -0400
To: eveander@ugcs.caltech.edu, xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr, olletg@ts.umu.se
Subject: Pi mnemonicmania

GREETINGS PI FAN!


May I have a large container of coffee?

As you know, the above sentence gives, by counting the number
of letters in each word, the first eight digits of the number pi
(3.1415926).

I have just finished composing a short story that sets a new
world record for the length of a pi mnemonic: 3835 decimals!

Check it out, at

  http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/cadenza.htm

You may recognize the first section, a pi-digits version of
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" that I wrote about a year ago.
The story takes off from there, in a somewhat science-fictiony
vein.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

Mike Keith
e-mail:  s6sj7gt@aol.com