Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A sequence of six 9s occurs in the decimal representation of π, starting at the 762nd decimal place. It has become famous because of the idea that one could memorize the digits of π up to that point, recite them and end with \"nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on\", which seems to suggest that π is rational. The earliest known mention of this idea occurs in Douglas Hofstadter's 1985 book Metamagical Themas, where Hofstadter statesI myself once learned 380 digits of π, when I was a crazy high-school kid. My never-attained ambition was to reach the spot, 762 digits out in the decimal expansion, where it goes \"999999\", so that I could recite it out loud, come to those six 9's, and then impishly say, \"and so on!\"The sequence of six nines is sometimes called \"Feynman point\" after physicist Richard Feynman, who has also been claimed to have stated this same idea in a lecture. It is not clear when, or even if, Feynman made such a statement, however; it is not mentioned in published biographies or in his autobiographies and unknown to his biographer, James Gleick."@en }
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- Six_nines_in_pi abstract "A sequence of six 9s occurs in the decimal representation of π, starting at the 762nd decimal place. It has become famous because of the idea that one could memorize the digits of π up to that point, recite them and end with \"nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on\", which seems to suggest that π is rational. The earliest known mention of this idea occurs in Douglas Hofstadter's 1985 book Metamagical Themas, where Hofstadter statesI myself once learned 380 digits of π, when I was a crazy high-school kid. My never-attained ambition was to reach the spot, 762 digits out in the decimal expansion, where it goes \"999999\", so that I could recite it out loud, come to those six 9's, and then impishly say, \"and so on!\"The sequence of six nines is sometimes called \"Feynman point\" after physicist Richard Feynman, who has also been claimed to have stated this same idea in a lecture. It is not clear when, or even if, Feynman made such a statement, however; it is not mentioned in published biographies or in his autobiographies and unknown to his biographer, James Gleick.".