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PiPhilology
v. 6.0 (September 14, 1996)
Antreas P. Hatzipolakis
xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr
G R E E C E
A. THE COLLECTION
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....
Example: AEI O 9EOS O MEGAS GEWMETREI......
3 1 4 1 5 9
2. CONTENTS
[ X = eXtension, -X = shortening, (x) = the number of pi mnemonics]
Mnemonics I :
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cornish, Czech (3),
Danish, Dutch (6), English (23+Xs), French (1+X/-X), German (4+X), Greek (3),
Hungarian (2), Irish, Italian (2), Latin, Norwegian (2), Persian (2), Polish (7),
Portuguese (5), Romanian (4), Russian (5), Slovak (3) Slovene (6), Spanish (6),
Swedish (2)
Mnemonics II - 1 :
In Chinese, English (Limericks/Misc. Poems/Songs/Cheers), Finnish, Russian,
In Several Languages.
Mnemonics II - 2 :
Chinese, Japanese (2), In Japanese,
Mnemonics III :
Czech, English (2), Finnish, German, Indian, Spanish
Pi Mnemotechniques:
Musical, Conway's, Misc.
Poems I:
English, French, German, Norwegian.
Poems II:
Eve Andersson's, A. Mehlmann's, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons', Robert Morgan's,
Drs P.'s, Olov Windelius', English (3), Modern.
Appendices:
1/Pi, logPi, e, loge, c, sqrts mnemonics in several languages.
3. CHANGES (since v. 5.0)
Additions
Type I :
English #1a, #23
And many variants. Also translations of Chinese Pi mnemonics.
B. THE FILE
1. REQUIREMENTS
Macintosh version:
MacOS 7.5.x
Color Monitor
Ismini font by Nikos Goulandris
(included; drag it onto your System Folder)
2. AVAILABILITY
I. Macintosh version:
This is a DOCMaker format stand-alone document in three parts.
1. Info - Mac Archive
Original Site:
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/sci/
Archived file: pi-philology-??.hqx [ ?? = latest version number]
Mirror Sites:
http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/mac/net/info-mac-mirrors.html
File Searchers (Keyword: philology):
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/SearchForm.html
http://www.mid.net/INFO-MAC/
http://www.fagg.uni-lj.si/cgi-bin/vsl-front/QuickForm
http://www.acs.oakland.edu/cgi-bin/vsl-front/QuickForm
http://www.shareware.com/
2. Olov Windelius' Home Page (Sweden):
http://www.ts.umu.se/~olletg/pi/sentence.html
II. Text version:
University of Cagliari ftp Site (Sardinia, Italy):
ftp://tex.unica.it/pub/docs/maths/
Archived file: PiPhilology.gz
III. HTMLized Text version:
(Old versions)
1. Instituto de Ciencias Mathematicas de Sao Carlos (Brazil):
http://www.icmsc.sc.usp.br/~mac/jbe/PiPh.html
2. Filipe Silva's Home Page (Portugal):
http://naomi.fe.up.pt/~ftpmaint/engl/pi2.html
3. SOFTWARE TYPE
It is Freeware for any *NON-PROFIT* use.
Antreas P. Hatzipolakis
G R E E C E
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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
-- Virgil