"How I wish I could calculate pi" analogs...

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You might know the mnemonic for $\pi$ in the title or even this more elaborated one:

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force, and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate
Or locate they who can cogitate
And so finally terminate.
Finis.

Are there any for other than $\pi$? Feel free to create your own! Here's my try for $\gamma$:

"0 Euler Leonhard" $\to 0,58$

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My spirits I brighten by leveling a mountain of decrepit milk maids furiously canoodling with lords of the manor.

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Martin Gardner quoted one for $\pi$ which I like:

How I wish a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.

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Maybe have a look at:

Ivars Peterson's MathTrek

Pi P H I L O L O G Y

Regards

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At the Feynman point:

Calculate perimeter: eightieth, ninetieth, hundredth: endlessly!

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An ostrich, a platypus, an elephant, a tapeworm, in selfsame boat abide cataclysm?

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Of matrices becoming usually singular consider likeliness reasoning, given sufficient hugeness (unlike merely randomness), he said, so I do.

Solution: http://oeis.org/A048651/

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I understand that if you recite Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, you repectively get $\frac{2e^2+3}{3π +1}$ and $2\sqrt{π} + 1$. Easy calculations then give you $π$ and $e$ making all other mnemonics superfluous.

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Que j'aime à faire apprendre une nombre utile aux sages, immortel archimède, artiste ingènieux...