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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 ]
[218] [219] The digits of π have also been incorporated into the lyrics of the song "Pi" from the 2005 album Aerial by Kate Bush. [220] In the 1967 Star Trek episode " Wolf in the Fold ", an out-of-control computer is contained by being instructed to "Compute to the last digit the value of π ".
Haraguchi holds the current unofficial world record for reciting 10,000 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.
The word "cadae" is the alphabetical equivalent of the first five digits of π, 3.1415. [5] The form of a cadae is based on pi on two levels. There are five stanzas, with 3, 1, 4, 1, and 5 lines each, respectively for a total of fourteen lines in the poem. Each line of the poem also contains an appropriate number of syllables.
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 .
A sequence of six consecutive nines occurs in the decimal representation of the number pi (π), starting at the 762nd decimal place. [1] [2] It has become famous because of the mathematical coincidence, and because of the idea that one could memorize the digits of π up to that point, and then suggest that π is rational.
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