Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Guy recites Pi from memory...


Check this out.

A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record by reciting "pi" to 83,431 digits.

Yeah, that's 83 thousand digits, by memory. And they're not in some easy pattern. Just to show you how impossible this is, here are the first 500 digits of pi:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 16939937510582097494459230781640628620899 86280348253421170679821480865132823066470 93844609550582231725359408128481117450284 10270193852110555964462294895493038196442 88109756659334461284756482337867831652712 01909145648566923460348610454326648213393 60726024914127372458700660631558817488152 09209628292540917153643678925903600113305 30548820466521384146951941511609433057270 36575959195309218611738193261179310511854 80744623799627495673518857527248912279381 8301194912

What in the world was he thinking? Read more here.

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