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piphilology

noun
/paɪfɪˈlɒləd͡ʒɪ/UK/ˌpaɪfɪˈlɑləd͡ʒi/US

Etymology

From pi + philology.

  1. derived from φιλολογίᾱ — “love of argument or reasoning, love of learning and literature”
  2. derived from philologia
  3. inherited from Philologie
  4. compounded as piphilology — “pi + philology”

Definitions

  1. The memorization of the digits of pi as a hobby.

    • In piphilology, ten thousand is the current world record for the number of digits of pi memorized by a human being.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for piphilology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA