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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.
Later computers calculated pi to extraordinary numbers of digits (2.7 trillion as of August 2010), [4] and people began memorizing more and more of the output. The world record for the number of digits memorized has exploded since the mid-1990s, and it stood at 100,000 as of October 2006. [ 6 ]
In 1977, after losing interest in engineering, Mahadevan set to memorize substantial parts of pi. On 5 July 1981, he recited from memory the first 31,811 digits of pi. [1] This secured him a place in the 1984 Guinness Book of World Records, and he has been featured on Larry King Live and Reader's Digest. [2]
Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14 because the date's numbers, 3-1-4 match the first three digits of pi, the never-ending mathematical number. "I love that it is so nerdy.
On 7 March 2020, he recalled 24,063 digits of pi, setting a new personal, Swedish, and European record. [5] His aim was to recall the first 100,000 digits but he made a mistake on the 24,064th. Three days later he became the first person to pass the "Olympus Mons of Memory Tests", being tested on samples from the first 100,000 digits.
From 2002 until 2009, Kanada held the world record calculating the number of digits in the decimal expansion of pi – exactly 1.2411 trillion digits. [1] The calculation took more than 600 hours on 64 nodes of a HITACHI SR8000/MPP supercomputer. Some of his competitors in recent years include Jonathan and Peter Borwein and the Chudnovsky brothers.
With five multicolor play shapes, this foam fort building set will give kiddos plenty of ways to play. From a cozy couch to a castle and moat, their imagination is the limit.
Once again, Queen Camilla has shown her commitment to literacy and literature. The Queen, 77, joined Brigitte Macron at the Entente Littéraire Prize ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 4, the day after ...