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Memorise the First 100 Digits of Pi

The First 100 Digits of Pi

After this article you’ll know the first 100 digits of pi by heart.

The Digits

31 41 59 26 53 58 97 93 23 84 62 64 33 83 27 95 02 88 41 97 16 93 99 37 51 05 82 09 74 94 45 92 30 78 16 40 62 86 20 89 98 62 80 34 82 53 42 11 70 67

Each pair of digits maps to a Major System word. We link three words into a vivid story you won’t forget.


Part 1: 314159

31
🧤
Mitt
41
🛣️
Road
59
💋
Lip
314159
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🧤 Mitt → 🛣️ Road → 💋 Lip

A baseball mitt slides down a road and lands on a giant pair of lips.

A huge leather mitt tumbles out of a stadium and onto a long straight road. It picks up speed, spinning like a frisbee, screeching against the tarmac. At the end of the road stands a pair of enormous glossy lips - three metres tall, cherry-red and glistening. The mitt slams right into them with a loud SMACK, and the lips pucker around it like they’re kissing a baseball. You can hear the wet smooch echo down the street.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 1 in your memory palace.

Part 2: 265358

26
🌮
Nacho
53
🍋
Lime
58
🍃
Leaf
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🌮 Nacho → 🍋 Lime → 🍃 Leaf

A giant nacho chip gets squeezed with lime juice and a leaf wraps around it like a taco shell.

You’re holding a nacho the size of a surfboard - warm, golden, and crunchy. Someone squeezes a lime the size of a basketball directly onto it. The sour juice explodes everywhere, fizzing and sizzling on the hot chip. Then a massive green leaf - as big as a blanket - swoops down from a tree and wraps itself around the nacho like nature’s own taco wrapper. You take a bite and it’s the crunchiest, tangiest thing you’ve ever tasted.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 2 in your memory palace.

Part 3: 979323

97
📚
Book
93
💣
Bomb
23
🧙
Gnome
979323
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9

📚 Book → 💣 Bomb → 🧙 Gnome

A massive book falls open and a bomb rolls out of its pages, landing right on a garden gnome.

You’re in a library when an enormous leather-bound book - taller than you - slams open on the floor. The pages flutter and out tumbles a ticking cartoon bomb, black and round with a fizzing fuse. It rolls across the marble floor, picking up speed, and smashes straight into a ceramic garden gnome standing by the doorway. The gnome explodes into a thousand colourful shards, and the bomb’s fuse sizzles out with a sad little puff of smoke. You can smell the gunpowder mixing with old book dust.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 3 in your memory palace.

Part 4: 846264

84
🧥
Fur
62
⛓️
Chain
64
🌊
Shore
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9

🧥 Fur → ⛓️ Chain → 🌊 Shore

A luxurious fur coat gets tangled in a heavy chain and dragged across a sandy shore.

A glamorous white fur coat hangs on a rack at the beach. A rusty anchor chain whips out of the sand and wraps around it like a python. The chain yanks the coat off the rack and drags it across the shore, leaving a deep furrow in the wet sand. Seagulls scream overhead. The fur is soaked with saltwater, and you can hear the chain links clanking against the shells and pebbles.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 4 in your memory palace.

Part 5: 338327

33
🧟
Mummy
83
🫧
Foam
27
📿
Neck
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🧟 Mummy → 🫧 Foam → 📿 Neck

A mummy bursts out of a sarcophagus covered in foam and wraps bandages around your neck.

An ancient sarcophagus lid flies open and a mummy lurches upright, but instead of dust, it’s covered head to toe in thick white foam - like it just rolled through a car wash. The foam sprays everywhere as the mummy stumbles forward. It grabs you with bandaged hands and wraps a long strip of linen around your neck like a scarf. The foam is warm and smells strangely like shaving cream. You can feel the soggy bandages tighten gently.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 5 in your memory palace.

Part 6: 950288

95
🔔
Bell
02
☀️
Sun
88
🎉
Viva
950288
0
1
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9

🔔 Bell → ☀️ Sun → 🎉 Viva

A giant bell crashes into the sun and sparks an enormous celebration.

A church bell the size of a house breaks free from its tower and soars into the sky. It slams into the sun with a deafening CLANG that echoes across the whole planet. The sun rings like a gong, and shockwaves of golden light ripple outward. On the ground, everyone starts dancing - it’s a spontaneous “Viva!” celebration. Confetti rains from the vibrating sky, music plays from nowhere, and the ringing bell can still be heard inside the glowing sun.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 6 in your memory palace.

Part 7: 419716

41
🛣️
Road
97
📚
Book
16
🍽️
Dish
419716
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9

🛣️ Road → 📚 Book → 🍽️ Dish

A winding road is paved entirely with open books, and at the end sits a giant dinner dish.

You’re walking down a road, but instead of asphalt, the surface is made of thousands of open books - their pages fluttering under your feet. The words blur as you step on them. At the end of the road, blocking the entire lane, sits an enormous dinner dish - white porcelain, ten metres across, steaming with heat. You can smell something cooking. You slip on a book and slide right into the dish, landing in a warm pile of pages and steam.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 7 in your memory palace.

Part 8: 939937

93
💣
Bomb
99
🪠
Pipe
37
Mug
939937
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8
9

💣 Bomb → 🪠 Pipe → ☕ Mug

A bomb rolls into a pipe and shoots out the other end into a giant coffee mug.

A cartoon bomb - round, black, fuse sparking - rolls into the opening of an enormous plumber’s pipe. You hear it rattling and echoing inside, picking up speed. WHOOSH - it shoots out the other end like a cannonball and lands with a huge SPLASH in a coffee mug the size of a swimming pool. Hot coffee erupts everywhere like a geyser. The fuse finally goes out with a sad hiss, drowning in the brown liquid. The mug cracks from the impact.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 8 in your memory palace.

Part 9: 510582

51
🅿️
Lot
05
Sail
82
🌀
Fan
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🅿️ Lot → ⛵ Sail → 🌀 Fan

A parking lot floods and fills with sailboats powered by giant electric fans.

You walk into an empty parking lot and suddenly the tarmac floods with water - ankle deep, then knee deep. Out of nowhere, colourful sailboats slide into every parking space, their white sails billowing. But there’s no wind! Giant industrial fans - six metres tall - line the edges of the lot, blasting air and making the sails crack and snap. The water sprays in your face. The boats creak and rock, jostling against each other in their parking spaces.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 9 in your memory palace.

Part 10: 097494

09
🍲
Soup
74
🐦‍⬛
Crow
94
🐻
Bear
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🍲 Soup → 🐦‍⬛ Crow → 🐻 Bear

A steaming bowl of soup attracts a crow that drops it onto a sleeping bear.

A giant cauldron of tomato soup sits in a forest clearing, steam spiralling upward. A black crow dives down, grabs the rim with its talons, and lifts the entire cauldron into the air - impossibly strong. It flies over a sleeping grizzly bear and tips the soup directly onto its head. The bear wakes with a roar, red soup dripping from its fur, and the crow caws mockingly from a tree branch. The smell of tomato fills the forest.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 10 in your memory palace.

Part 11: 459230

45
🚂
Rail
92
🦴
Bone
30
🐭
Mouse
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🚂 Rail → 🦴 Bone → 🐭 Mouse

A train rail is made entirely of bones, and a mouse scurries along it.

You’re at a railway station, but the rails are made of giant white bones - femurs and tibias, laid end to end. They gleam in the moonlight. A tiny mouse runs along the bone rail at incredible speed, its little feet clicking on the calcium surface. Suddenly a bone-train rounds the corner - a locomotive built from a dinosaur skeleton - and the mouse barely leaps clear, landing on the platform with a squeak. Bone dust hangs in the air.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 11 in your memory palace.

Part 12: 781640

78
🕳️
Cave
16
🍽️
Dish
40
🌹
Rose
781640
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🕳️ Cave → 🍽️ Dish → 🌹 Rose

Deep inside a cave, you discover a dish piled high with red roses.

You crawl through a narrow cave tunnel, feeling wet rock against your hands. The darkness gives way to a soft glow. In a hidden chamber, balanced on a stalagmite, sits a porcelain dinner dish overflowing with fresh red roses. Their perfume fills the cave and overwhelms the damp mineral smell. You reach for a rose and its petals are warm - impossibly warm, like they’re alive. The dish wobbles on the stalagmite and the echo rings through the cave.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 12 in your memory palace.

Part 13: 628620

62
⛓️
Chain
86
🐟
Fish
20
👃
Nose
628620
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⛓️ Chain → 🐟 Fish → 👃 Nose

A heavy chain snags a fish that slaps you right on the nose.

You’re pulling a rusty chain out of the ocean, hand over hand. Suddenly something tugs back - a massive silver fish is tangled in the links, thrashing wildly. With one powerful flip, the fish breaks free and launches out of the water. It spins through the air and SLAPS you across the nose with its wet tail. Your eyes water, you smell salt and scales, and the chain clanks back into the sea.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 13 in your memory palace.

Part 14: 899862

89
🎶
Vibe
98
🥩
Beef
62
⛓️
Chain
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🎶 Vibe → 🥩 Beef → ⛓️ Chain

A pulsing speaker shakes a slab of beef until a chain wraps around it.

A massive speaker pumps bass so hard the floor vibrates - pure vibe. On a table in front of it, a thick raw steak bounces in rhythm, jiggling like jelly. The vibrations get so intense that a metal chain coiled on the floor starts to snake upward, link by link, and wraps itself around the beef like a gift ribbon. The steak is now chained down, but still pulsing with the beat. You feel the bass in your bones.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 14 in your memory palace.

Part 15: 803482

80
😊
Face
34
🐴
Mare
82
🌀
Fan
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😊 Face → 🐴 Mare → 🌀 Fan

A smiling face appears on a mare who gallops toward a giant fan.

A brown mare trots toward you, but instead of a normal horse face, she has an enormous human face - wide smile, rosy cheeks, blinking eyes. It’s deeply unsettling. She whinnies and gallops toward a spinning industrial fan the size of a house. The wind blasts her mane backward and the human face’s cheeks ripple like flags. She stands there, grinning into the wind, mane flying wildly. You can feel the draft from ten metres away.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 15 in your memory palace.

Part 16: 534211

53
🍋
Lime
42
🌧️
Rain
11
🐸
Toad
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🍋 Lime → 🌧️ Rain → 🐸 Toad

Limes rain from the sky and pile up on a giant toad.

The sky turns green and limes start falling like hail - thousands of them, bouncing off the ground with wet thuds. Lime juice splashes everywhere, turning the pavement slippery and sour-smelling. In the middle of the deluge sits an enormous warty toad, the size of a car, catching limes in its mouth and swallowing them whole. Its belly swells with each one. You slip on a lime and slide right into the toad’s side - it’s cold, slimy, and vibrating with each gulp.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 16 in your memory palace.

Part 17: 7067

70
🪿
Goose
67
Shock
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🪿 Goose → ⚡ Shock

A goose pecks an electrical outlet and gets a massive shock.

A fat white goose waddles into a power station, honking arrogantly. It spots a sparking outlet on the wall and jabs its orange beak right into it. ZAP! A bolt of electricity shoots through the goose - its feathers stand on end, its eyes bug out, and blue sparks crackle along its wings. The goose stumbles backward, smoking slightly, feathers perfectly frizzed into a spiky halo. The air smells of ozone and singed feathers.

🏛️ Place this scene at location 17 in your memory palace.

Test Yourself

Cover the text above. What are the first 100 digits of pi?

Reveal
31 41 59 26 53 58 97 93 23 84 62 64 33 83 27 95 02 88 41 97 16 93 99 37 51 05 82 09 74 94 45 92 30 78 16 40 62 86 20 89 98 62 80 34 82 53 42 11 70 67
🧤
Mitt
🛣️
Road
💋
Lip
🌮
Nacho
🍋
Lime
🍃
Leaf
📚
Book
💣
Bomb
🧙
Gnome
🧥
Fur
⛓️
Chain
🌊
Shore
🧟
Mummy
🫧
Foam
📿
Neck
🔔
Bell
☀️
Sun
🎉
Viva
🛣️
Road
📚
Book
🍽️
Dish
💣
Bomb
🪠
Pipe
Mug
🅿️
Lot
Sail
🌀
Fan
🍲
Soup
🐦‍⬛
Crow
🐻
Bear
🚂
Rail
🦴
Bone
🐭
Mouse
🕳️
Cave
🍽️
Dish
🌹
Rose
⛓️
Chain
🐟
Fish
👃
Nose
🎶
Vibe
🥩
Beef
⛓️
Chain
😊
Face
🐴
Mare
🌀
Fan
🍋
Lime
🌧️
Rain
🐸
Toad
🪿
Goose
Shock

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