Tokyo Metblogs » Hobbies http://tokyo.metblogs.com Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:21:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Seeking a Story in Pi http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/10/05/seeking-a-story-in-pi/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/10/05/seeking-a-story-in-pi/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0000 tok_jimmy http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/10/05/seeking-a-story-in-pi/ 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

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