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A very difficult competition.
May. 27th, 2005 10:36 amIf you’ve known me for a while, you might recall that I periodically enter the competition in the Spectator magazine. The competition tends to be fairly literary and always gives the old ‘use of language’ muscles in the brain a good workout. This week’s competition, however, was a real stinker – and so I thought I’d throw it at you lot.
The challenge was to take the first 101 digits of Pi and write a short piece of prose which uses a word of equivalent length to each digit in the order which they appear in Pi.
A stinker, eh?
For your assistance, the first 101 digits of Pi are: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
Where ‘0’ should be a 10-letter word.
Just to make you work harder, not only have I done this, but also I won first prize (as you will see if you happen to glance at a copy of this week’s magazine). It took three days to write the entry.
( My winning entry - can you do better? )
The challenge was to take the first 101 digits of Pi and write a short piece of prose which uses a word of equivalent length to each digit in the order which they appear in Pi.
A stinker, eh?
For your assistance, the first 101 digits of Pi are: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
Where ‘0’ should be a 10-letter word.
Just to make you work harder, not only have I done this, but also I won first prize (as you will see if you happen to glance at a copy of this week’s magazine). It took three days to write the entry.
( My winning entry - can you do better? )
