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83,431 Recited Digits of Pi
i_like_spam writes "59-year-old Akira Haraguchi of Japan recently broke the world record for the recited number of digits of Pi. Haraguchi-san recited an amazing 83,431 digits of Pi during a 13-hour overnight stretch. This almost doubles the previous record of 42,195 digits by fellow Japanese Hiroyuki Goto.
Though it is not yet updated to reflect the new record, the Pi-World-Ranking-List has the rules for participation and breaks down the ranking by world, continent, and country. Links to world rankings for memorized digits of E and Sqrt(2) are also given."
She only recited 10, the other numbers were just dupes.
A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting "pi," or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.
Good, now she can counsel herself on having more exciting things to do than learning and reciting the digits of a number anyone of us can look up.
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When i think of hobbies, learning a sequence of 83,000 digits sounds like a good time.
Some would say that 3.1459 is more than enough.
(I tried to hold back - I really did)
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Wait..er...the odds of him actually having a girlfriend are 83,431 to 1.
Understandable. Had you been a *physics* major you would have noticed that he recited pi at a *faster* rate than the previous guy and thus the metric of the frame of reference gets *dilated*, giving just a bit over the aformentioned factor of 2.
Not with Pi, but for example with 1/3 and even with 2/3!
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Pah. Memorizing the digits of Pi is easy.
Although, the article doesn't say -- do they have to be in the right order?
Lawyer: Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon, have you ever forgotten anything?
Apu: No. In fact, I can recite pi to 50,000 places. The last digit is 1.
Homer: Mmmm.... Pi.
I memorized i. People memorizing Pi and e are too irrational for my tastes.
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Pft you memorized i? Come back when you memorize a real number.
Well, I also memorized 1/3. However, the competition has been going on for 73 days now, and I'm not sure I can keep going much longer.
What does it take to be number 1? Two is not a winner, and three no one remembers...
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It's a good thing we have people to do this so computers don't have to.
This is the math section? I love it.
To do my backups!
1 0010111 10100111010101011101011010101110101010111001010010 10101010111010101010101001010010001011010100101001 01010101010101010101010101010110111001110100101010 01010101010001010101010101010101101010001010110101 00011001011011101100001110101010101010101000011101 0101012..."
"OK, just remember this:
100101101100010100101010100011100101010010
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frankly, I don't see much of a difference
That's why you're still a pimple-faced virgin.
the Pi-World-Ranking-List has the rules for participation and breaks down the ranking by world, continent, and country I'm just proud that, once again, an earthling holds the #1 spot. Good thing they let your search by world. Also, the martians are really slacking.
Not only that, but it is transcendental.
What's the resistance of a transcendental number?
Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
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So this guy recites 83,431 digits, and you can't type 5?
C-x C-s C-x k
Uh, you're probably not an English major either because you misquoted the article, "This almost doubles the previous record of 42,195 digits by fellow Japanese Hiroyuki Goto."
...unless they recently fixed the article text?
Too complex for me. I like to keep it real.
Memorize the sentence "how I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics". The digits of PI are the number of letters in each word. Of course, this may not help too much if you are into "Slashdot spelling"...
Pi memorizes YOU!
Anyone have an MP3 of the event?
And be a square? Never!
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
The same way people used to memorize 500 page long epic folk poems
Did they memorize them character by character?
No, I believe they memorized them by their hex codes in ASCII (or maybe UTF-8 or UTF-16 if they wanted to be more universal).
Sometimes you've gotta roll the hard six.
IT'S THE BASE OF THE NATURAL LOGARITHM. LN(E) = 1.0
SHEESH, WHAT DO THEY TEACH IN SCHOOLS THESE DAYS.
I took the time to memorize pi to over 100,000 digits in base PI. When's that competition?
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Numbers from 1-10 in Japanese each have a reading associated with them (1=hi, 2=fu, 3=mi...) that makes it easier to form them into mnemonics than in English.
Actually English has that too. It sounds something like "wun," "tooh," "three"....
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How do you memorize a number that deep
You only have to remember about 40 numbers and then they start repeating.