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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Barack Obama recently passed a cognitive test that required him to recite the first fifty digits of pi, the former President has disclosed.
Obama took the test voluntarily, he said, in order to reassure his employers at Netflix that he was of sound mind.
Netflix has made a big investment in me as a producer, and I thought it was important for them to know that I was all right upstairs, Obama said.
The former President said that he enjoyed taking the test, including a section that required him to memorize and then recite a hundred verses of the Iliad.
That was actually a lot of fun, Obama said. Greek is such a beautiful language.
Although he passed the test, Obama said that there were moments when he felt rusty and not as sharp as I was back in the day.
I definitely need to do some more mental exercises, he said. One hour of three-dimensional chess with Bill Gates every morning isnt getting it done.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-passes-cognitive-test-by-reciting-the-first-fifty-digits-of-pi
dhill926
(16,427 posts)Gothmog
(146,564 posts)intrepidity
(7,455 posts)Karadeniz
(22,673 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Talitha
(6,710 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,936 posts)Although I memorized them in alphabetical order. It turns out to be easier that way.
Mr. Ected
(9,676 posts)And you dropped your quip in the perfect place. Kudos.
crickets
(26,018 posts)malaise
(269,860 posts)that he ate the Pi
Disaffected
(4,607 posts)so it ought to appeal to Trump as well.
Dem2theMax
(9,679 posts)and think it's true!
He won't understand any of it, but he'll think it's true.
hay rick
(7,727 posts)Ilsa
(61,723 posts)Chew on that, donald.
klook
(12,191 posts)I spent many tortured hours translating it into English in high school!
And trust me, Vergil was never as funny as Andy Borowitz.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,249 posts)Cheese.
Pickles.
Ohions.
On a sesame-seed bun.
sarge43
(28,950 posts)soldierant
(7,061 posts)that a bus driver who gradually pick up a number of people , starting with a woman who said her named was Patty (and she happened to be quite heavey),bu t I have completely forgotten what came after "yeah, the bus is full ... I've got two obese Patty's, ..."
Reconstructing it might e a fun quarantine activity, but not for me.
keithbvadu2
(37,282 posts)First fifty digits? - What a nothingburger!
Trump brags he can recite the last fifty digits.
louis-t
(23,339 posts)progree
(10,981 posts)course.
Leibniz formula for ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_formula_for_%CF%80
There are others but this one was the first Google hit. But it gives one the idea.