Man breaks 'pi' memory record

Daily News ^ | 7-3-5

[bayourod]

Man breaks 'pi' memory record A Japanese mental health counsellor broke the record for reciting pi from memory in a marathon session from Friday to early yesterday.

Haraguchi, 59, recited pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 decimal places.

Starting at 9am on Friday, Haraguchi, from Chiba, near Tokyo, lost his place around noon. He quickly restarted, completing his feat of recall in the early hours of Saturday. Haraguchi hopes to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, replacing the current record-holder, also Japanese, who recited pi to 42,195 decimal places as a student.

[bayourod]

I probably should have posted this under breaking news. The pull down topic list didn't have an "alternative to counting sheep" category.

[Txsleuth]

hmmmmmm---I have a hard time remembering my home phone number...

[RandallFlagg]

HAAA! Since I was five, I could go this far (And this is without looking it up -seriesly)

3.1415926535897932384626

Sometimes, I use these numbers for combinations, passwords, etc.

[RandallFlagg]

Now, let's see how close I got....

3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173........

I deleted about 9/10ths of it as to not flood the thread.

[RandallFlagg]

Link:

http://www.joyofpi.com/pi.html

[IRememberElian]

"Mental Health Counselor"? I'm guessing Tom Cruise posted this.

Get the feeling this guy gets kicked out of Star Trek conventions for being too big a nerd?

(Like I can talk!)

[EUPHORIC]

HAAA! Since I was five, I could go this far (And this is without looking it up -seriesly)

3.1415926535897932384626

Sometimes, I use these numbers for combinations, passwords, etc.

Me too and exactly to the same place! Guess the same aliens abducted us both or something?!?!

Oh... And thanks for the passwords.. I just withdrew all your money and donated it to Live-8. ;)

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!! Actually, I use the registration number to the Nostromo from the movie "Alien" for the real important stuff.

Besides, I'm married. I have no money.

[Centurion2000]

Ok, now, let's see him use that number to that precision in an application problem that requires 83000 significant digits.

[bayourod]

Well your password is safe from me. I don't even know what pi is.

[RandallFlagg]

If memory serves (which is rare these days), PI is how many times the radius of a circle will go around that circle. If a circle is 4" in diameter, the radius would be 2" from the center to the edge. Take that radius and multiply it by PI and you cet the circumference of the circle (2" X 3.1415926 = 6.2831852). So, the circumference of the circle -the distance to go all the way around it- is 6.2831852 inches.

But, I could be wrong.

[Right Brother]

I'm not knocking this great achievement, but there's a guy in Duluth, Minn. who sang "99 bottles of beer on the wall" for 99 hours.

[bayourod]

In Japanese?

[Trajan88]

A Japanese rain man... sounds like a movie in the making.

Trajan88

[chariotdriver]

Since pi (the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter) extends into infinity and never to return,...
well.. then.. I'll return to my sexist proclivities on the Danica thread

[RandallFlagg]

DANICA THREAD?!?! WHERE!?


I'm THERE!

[Paleo Conservative]

Haraguchi, 59, recited pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 decimal places.

That is an irrational thing to do.

[Wilhelm Tell]

That is an irrational thing to do.

LOL! I haven't enjoyed a pun about math in a long time.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I suppose it was as easy as 'pi' (I couldn't help myself).