Man Recites Pi To 100,000 Places .
Akira Haraguchi, 60, a Japanese mental health counselor, 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 mental health counselor?
I love Pi. I love reading Pi facts, but even I think this takes the cake.
hiya Cube!..and his purpose for doin this was whattttttttttt?..lol
ReplyDeleteI dunno. But would you feel comfortable having him be your mental health expert? I wouldn't.
ReplyDeleteDid someone say pie? Are we talkin' a la mode? Apple? Mmmm.....
ReplyDelete"I love Pi facts, but even I think this takes the cake."
ReplyDeleteHeh Heh Heh.. You are one funny girl cube!
Thought you might like this, since you are rather partial to Pi...
"Tis a favourite project of mine
A new value of pi to assign.
I would fix it at 3
For it's simpler, you see,
Than 3 point 14159."
Harvey L Carter.
brooke: I hear you. I lurve pi, in more ways than one ;-)
ReplyDeletekathy: oooh, thanks for that bit of Pi doggerel. I love it. I shall put it in the vault.
BTW Carter does take all the fun out of it, doesn't he?
I'm a cookie man myself.
ReplyDeletewell if this doesn't take the cake!
ReplyDeletei live with three pi geeks - they may have it - no, really.
pi is The Answer....
ReplyDeleteI, too, love pi, cube! Swordfish pi for me, pleeeze!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to whoever won...it sound like quite a waste of time :)
ReplyDeleteWOW! I sure wish I had that man's mental capacity.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be able to store info like that.