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Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the three-point-one-what dept.

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."

7 of 335 comments (clear)

  1. The name for that kind of chanting by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 5, Funny

    is "Transcendental Meditation".

  2. Pi is like so last year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Memorizing the digits of e is cool.

  3. Re:White and Nerdy... by coso · · Score: 5, Funny

    All that work and he could have just asked Weird Al.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

  4. Re:Good Manners by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, when he wasn't eating rice balls, his mouth was full of pi.

    OK, OK, I'm leaving, no need to shove....

  5. 100,000 digits is nothing... by Nahor · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I'm currently at 1,135,972 digits for 1/3. Also, I already finished reciting all the digits for 1/2.

  6. Re:Details by Plutonite · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pointless. CowboyNeal will obviously win.

  7. A public performance? by Toxicgonzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"