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2005/7/4-5 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:38409 Activity:kinda low
7/4     Ultimate Geek Award?  Man recites pi from memory to 83,431 places
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8456677
        \_ Lots of people have memorized the bible or koran, but I guess this
           is all the more impressive as it deals with numerical non-
           repetitive patterns.  -John
           \_ Well you should really compare the information content.  I think
              because of redundancy and predictability natural language has
              somehting like 5-6 bits per word, and because of randomness there
              it like 2.3 bits per digit of Pi.
        \_ According to the article, this guy memorizes the digits while the
           current record holder calculated the digits from memory.
           \_ What the fuck is that supposed to mean.  They meant "recite",
              not "calculate"
           \_ According to the article, this guy = current record holder.
              \_ "If verified and recognized by the Guinness Book of Records,
                 Haraguchi's feat would beat his own previous best - currently
                 under review - of 54,000 digits. The official current record-
                 holder, also Japanese, calculated pi from memory to 42,195
                 decimal places in 1995."
                 \_ You're an idiot.  Almost as much as the "journalist".
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8456677
TOKYO - A Japanese psychiatric counselor has recited pi to 83,431 decimal places from memory, breaking his own personal best of 54,000 digits and setting an unofficial world record, a media report said Saturday. Akira Haraguchi, 59, had begun his attempt to recall the value of pi - a mathematical value that has an infinite number of decimal places - at a public hall in Chiba city, east of Tokyo, on Friday morning and appeared to give up by noon after only reaching 16,000 decimal places, the Tokyo Shimbun said on its Web site. But a determined Haraguchi started anew and had broken his old record on Friday evening, about 11 hours after first sitting down to his task, the paper said. He reached the 80,000-digit mark after midnight early Saturday, according to the paper, which had a photo showing Haraguchi with his eyes closed, his face contorted in concentration. If verified and recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, Haraguchi's f eat would beat his own previous best - currently under review - of 54,00 0 digits. The official current record-holder, also Japanese, calculated pi from memory to 42,195 decimal places in 1995. Pi, usually given as an abbreviated 314, is the ratio of the circumferen ce to the diameter of a circle. The number has fascinated and confounded mathematicians for centuries. Aided by a supercomputer, a University of Tokyo mathematician set the wor ld record for figuring out pi to 124 trillion decimal places in 2002. Researchers say that calculating pi to more than about 1,000 decimal plac es has not much purpose in math or engineering, though mathematicians ha ve done so to test the accuracy and limits of supercomputers. This material may not b e published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.