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Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits
DiAmOnDirc writes "Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday. He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo. Haraguchi, a psychiatric counselor and business consultant in nearby Mobara city, took a break of about 5 minutes every one to two hours, going to the rest room and eating rice balls during the attempt, said Naoki Fujii, spokesman of Haraguchi's office. Fujii said all of Haraguchi's activities during the attempt, including his bathroom breaks, were videotaped for evidence that will later be sent for verification by the Guinness Book of Records."
is "Transcendental Meditation".
Memorizing the digits of e is cool.
Weird Al's got nothing on this dude.
sulli
RTFJ.
All that work and he could have just asked Weird Al.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
With english/french/spanish 5.1 and DTS and will be released when Mr. Haraguchi finishes the commentary track.
... going to the rest room and eating rice balls during the attempt
I wonder how many digits of pi can be squeezed onto a piece of rice.
"I'm guessing there's no girlfriend, either, but the only evidence I have supporting this is that, well, this guy memorized 100,000 digits of Pi. C'mon..."
Yeah... I just love the guy posting on Slashdot about his assumption of some other guy not having a gf because of how he spends his time.
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Actually, when he wasn't eating rice balls, his mouth was full of pi.
OK, OK, I'm leaving, no need to shove....
...I'm currently at 1,135,972 digits for 1/3. Also, I already finished reciting all the digits for 1/2.
Pointless. CowboyNeal will obviously win.
He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu
Did people actually go to watch this guy? What did they say to each other when he finished?
"Hey, remember the part when he was all like 3, 5, 1, 7, 4, 4, 2, 5, 6, 6, 2, 1, 0, 4, 5, 7? That was wicked sick"
"Yea, yea, and then he followed it up with a 4, 2, 4, 7, 3, 1, 1, 5, 2, 2, 5, 9, 0, 2, 3 and I was like ROCK ON Akira, ROCK ON"
How I wish I could enumerate pi easily, since all these fucking mnemonics prevent recalling any of pi's sequence more simply!
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.-- Frontinus, 1st cent. AD
And I thought I was cool for reciting e to 50 decimal places in calculus class last year. ownt ;\
Maybe he'll get the world record for most video recorded bathroom breaks in a row by a 60 year old man. When was the last time anyone checked out the Guiness Book of World Records? Those are the types of records they're looking for.
Do you know the history of psychiatry?
Bruce
So, you're saying that he probably does have a girlfriend?
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
i can recite the value for SQRT(-1)!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Mmmm pi...
dnuof eruc rof aixelsid
And to paraphrase the bible, "3 ought to be enough pi for anyone".
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Choice: Watching a 16 hour video of a guy reciting Pi or turning in my geek status.
Answer: Guess I'm no longer a geek
You try remembering 100k digits when you get to his age.
You try remembering 1k digits right now.
no problem. i have the first 100K digits memorized already... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...I can recite whole numbers from 0 to 100,000. Maybe more. Does that impress you?
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