How do you invest your time?
Because Akira Haraguchi has invested… I’d say a significant portion of his life dedicated to pi.
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, his office said Wednesday. He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo.
Pi is a physical constant defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
Let that sink in. This guy has memorized pi to 100,000 decimal places. I don’t know 95% of the phone numbers listed in my cell phone - if it goes, my contacts go.
Now if you want to downplay this accomplishment, pi has an infinite number of decimals, as it never repeats. So percentage-wise, Haraguchi has memorized 100,000/infinity = 0. So he’s accomplished nothing.
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