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Seeking a Story in Pi

Posted By tok_jimmy On October 5, 2006 @ 9:31 am In Hobbies | Comments Disabled

Here’s a test. How many digits of pi do you know (without Googling it!)?
It’s 3 point something, right?

Yesterday, Akira Haraguchi reportedly recited Pi from memory to 100,000 places in front of an enraptured audience at a public hall in Kisarazu, Chiba.
It took him 16.5 hours. Not bad for a 60-year-old!
Read more on CNN ^[1]

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[1] Read more on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/memorize.pi.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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