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Japanese breaks pi memory record
Pi
The symbol used for pi is a letter from the Greek alphabet
A Japanese mental health counsellor has broken the world record for reciting pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, from memory.
Akira Haraguchi, 59, managed to recite the number's first 83,431 decimal places, almost doubling the previous record held by another Japanese.
He had to stop three hours into his recital after losing his place, and had to start from the beginning.
Pi is an infinite decimal whose numbers never repeat in a pattern.
Mr Haraguchi, from Chiba, east of Tokyo, took several hours reciting the numbers, finishing in the early hours of Saturday.
"I thank you all for your support," he told reporters and onlookers at the public hall in Tokyo.
Pi
The symbol used for pi is a letter from the Greek alphabet
A Japanese mental health counsellor has broken the world record for reciting pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, from memory.
Akira Haraguchi, 59, managed to recite the number's first 83,431 decimal places, almost doubling the previous record held by another Japanese.
He had to stop three hours into his recital after losing his place, and had to start from the beginning.
Pi is an infinite decimal whose numbers never repeat in a pattern.
Mr Haraguchi, from Chiba, east of Tokyo, took several hours reciting the numbers, finishing in the early hours of Saturday.
"I thank you all for your support," he told reporters and onlookers at the public hall in Tokyo.
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That's pretty insane. The human mind is freaking powerful...
Crazy stuff. I wonder what it was like sitting next to him while he did all of this.
