Obama Passes Cognitive Test by Reciting the First Fifty Digits of Pi

[Zorro]

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 isn’t getting it done.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-passes-cognitive-test-by-reciting-the-first-fifty-digits-of-pi

[dhill926]

1. a classic laugh out loud from wife and I....

[Gothmog]

2. I love good satire

Link to tweet

[intrepidity]

3. Trump responds by naming five flavors of pie nt

[Karadeniz]

13. Brilliant!

[Throckmorton]

17. One of which is actually a frozen custard.

[Talitha]

18. Hahahaha!!!

[Dr. Strange]

4. I've actually memorized the first 10,000 digits of pi.

Although I memorized them in alphabetical order. It turns out to be easier that way.

[Mr. Ected]

10. You are quite funny.

And you dropped your quip in the perfect place. Kudos.

[crickets]

5. Thanks for the laughs today, Borowitz. Love it. nt

[malaise]

6. The Con responded saying

that he ate the Pi

[Disaffected]

7. Pi is an irrational number,

so it ought to appeal to Trump as well.

[Dem2theMax]

8. What I really love about this is that Trump may hear about it,

and think it's true!

He won't understand any of it, but he'll think it's true.

[hay rick]

9. Reminds me of Steve Martin's sobriety test in "The Man With Two Brains."

[Ilsa]

11. "Greek is such a beautiful language." LOL.

Chew on that, donald.

[klook]

19. The Iliad was written in Latin, but I'll give Borowitz a pass.

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]

12. Oh yeah? *ahem* Two all-beef patties. Special Sauce. Lettuce.

Cheese.
Pickles.
Ohions.
On a sesame-seed bun.

[sarge43]

16. Word is he warmed up by reciting the entire US Constitution n/t

[soldierant]

21. I once heard a joke based on that with the premise

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]

14. First fifty digits? - What a nothingburger!

First fifty digits? - What a nothingburger!

Trump brags he can recite the last fifty digits.

[louis-t]

15. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.

[progree]

20. Bull. I heard Obama CALCULATED the first 50 digits of Pi using an infinite series in his head of

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.

Barack Obama recently passed a cognitive test that required him to recite the first fifty digits of pi