Japanese Recites Pi to 100000 places

October 5, 2006 on 4:04 pm | In Humor, Society | | Email This Post

Akira Haraguchi has broken the world record (the previous record was his own) and recited PI to 100,000 places.

The event happened on October 4th, he started reciting PI from memory to 100,000 places on the 3rd starting at 9am, and finished after 16.5 hours. The previous record as actually set by Mr. Haraguchi himself at 54,000 places. His personal best before this competition was 83,431.

If you would like to practice so you can beat Mr. Haraguchi you can get PI to one million decimal places here. Just print that out, put it on your wall, and you should be ready to go come spring.

You can see a news clip regarding his achievement on TBS here in Japanese. We actually use this TBS website for school at IUC where I am studying now. You can see the full script of the news, and then listen to it, so it is good practice. Highly recommended… If you’re into that sort of thing…

To put this into perspective, in March 2004 a man from Kent in the UK recited PI to 22,000 places. Weak! (しょぼい！） A taxi driver in 1998 missed his PI reciting goal, and doesn’t seem to have had fun in the process.

Here is a Japan Times article in English with details on the PI Man.

There is also a short Wiki entry on the fellow.

- Harvey

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    That’s some mad memorizing skills! Nice link to the TBS site, looks pretty useful.

    Comment by Dave — October 5, 2006 #

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    Yo Harvey!
    Thanks for the comment and the encouragement!!
    Would you be my blog consultant?? :-)

    Comment by karthik — October 6, 2006 #

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