(from El Mundo Ciencia on 6th October 2006) Un japonés recita de memoria 100.000 decimales del número Pi. Después de terminar la proeza, Akira Haraguchi señaló: "Tampoco creo que sea nada excepcional, simplemente he vaciado mi memoria de todo lo demás y he recitado los números".Akira Haraguchi, A 59 year old japanese man recited from memory 100,000 decimal places of the number Pi. After finishing, he stated "I don't think it's anything exceptional, I just emptied my mind of everything else and recited the numbers".
The BBC coverage on this event was fairly poor in my opinion.
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Pretty amazing feat of memory or the ability to calculate the generating function in your head!
But of all the things you could devote your time to... - Sunday afternoons are never that bad?
Sunday afternoon... a perfect time to discover three interesting mnemonic methods for remembering pi:
Pie. I wish I could determine pi. "Eureka!" cried the great inventor. "Christmas pudding, Christmas pie, is the problem's very center!"
How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics! -- Isaac Asimov
Songs to wear pants to
So maybe 100,000 places is just a long speech away?
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