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He is also the owner of world records for mentally calculating the 13th root of 100-digit numbers and 200-digit numbers. [ 2 ] On 10 May 2002, he calculated the 13th root of a 100-digit number in 13.55 seconds, beating the record held by Willem Klein (88.8 seconds) and the somewhat less official record of Gert Mittring (39 seconds).
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
He crossed the line in a world record time of 2:01:39, 78 seconds faster than Kimeto's previous world record. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] He next raced in the 2019 London Marathon in April 2019. A group of nine went through 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in 29:01 and halfway in 61:37 before Kipchoge increased the pace and "one by one" his competitors dropped out of ...
Goldbach’s Conjecture. One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in math is also very easy to write. Goldbach’s Conjecture is, “Every even number (greater than two) is the sum of two primes ...
We're guessing your middle school math teacher probably couldn't do this! That is Kyle Gurkovich. Back in June, the 28-year-old New Jersey resident broke the world record for most pull-ups in 24 ...
In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where World Athletics tracks the record (e.g. the 150 ...
Haraguchi holds the current unofficial world record for reciting 100,000 digits of pi in 16 hours, starting at 9:00 a.m. (16:28 GMT) on October 3, 2006. He equaled his previous record of 83,500 digits by nightfall and then continued until stopping with digit number 100,000 at 1:28 a.m. on October 4, 2006.
Aleksandr “Sania” Sorokin (born 30 September 1981) [2] [3] is a Lithuanian long-distance runner who holds multiple world and European records. As of May 2023, he held seven world records on the track and road: 100 km (road), 100 miles (road), 100 miles (track), 6-hour run (track), 12-hour run (track), 12-hour run (road), 24-hour run (road).