Memorizing Pi

Doing a bit of tidying up of loose ends, notes jotted down here and there, and I came across this link that caught my attention when I read it months ago. (March, actually!) Just never got around to commenting on it. Maybe you heard about it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11858760/

Quite a feat...I'm impressed. But I ask, "What practical purpose is there in it?"

Two thoughts came to mind:

1: How many people put any effort at all into memorizing verses of the Bible? Our minds are capable of learning far more than we imagine.

2: What good is it to memorize the words of the Bible like so many decimal places of pi? I can think of people who can quote vast amounts of Scripture, but their lives give no indication of being affected by the Word. They might as well have learned the decimals places for pi and tried for a place in the Guinness Book of Records. God's rewards are for truths lived, not texts memorized.