Life of Pi
TOKYO --A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record.
Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995.
A few things struck me about this:
1) Being Asian is undoubtedly a requirement to even attempt something this complex.
2) By comparison, my personal best recitation of pi is 3 digits. I can do it in 1.06 seconds, bitches!
3) I don't think "mental health counselor" is the best profession for someone who thought it was ok to spend a quarter of his life memorizing pi.
posted by Me @ 10:31 AM
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