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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."
... If he could remember basic maths or even his own name after driving his brain to displace all other knowledge to make room for something so damned unnecessary.
When I think of people. I think that there are a lot of them. More than 6 billion actually. It would seem that there is enough people that there would be people doing all kinds of things, including memorizing digits of Pi. I'm sure there is also a whole underground group of people who memorize digits of e and are disgruntled because the pi memorizing people get more attention.
You think that's funny? Then please explain to me why, for example, devoting your life to run 100 meters faster than any other human is not considered funny? Is it because the latter pays unbelievably well if you succeed? Laugh all you want but frankly, I don't see much of a difference...
"You mortals are so obtuse." -Q
Did they memorize them character by character?
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why aren't these guys using their brain for something important. my computer can calculate pi forever and much faster.