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"I know Pi to 10 decimal places..."

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4644103.stm[/URL]

This guy knows it to 83,431 decimal places!

Hmmmmm, I can think of a few more productive things to do with my life other than try to beat him...

2130

Wow. I don't even know what 21 ^ 30 means.

I watched a documentary the other week on this guy who had Autism and could do complex maths in his head, like reciting pi and saying the result of 33 ^ 64 * 21 ^ 30

Special people do special things.

I'm actually very sad, as many people in the PS2 forum already know. I can reel off \pi to 50 decimal places having had it written in my office long enough to sink in. However, 84 thousand... that's, well, quite a lot more biscuits taken.

As for \pi being irrational, I thought there was still room for a proper proof there. Things like \sqrt{2} have been proved to be irrational, but I thought there was still doubt over \pi, even though its commonly accepted as being irrational. Not really in my area though, so I've never cared.

It sort of makes sense. It's impolite though.

"almost doubling the previous record held by another Japanese."

That doesn't make sense

It's like saying "I laughed at an English"

Timmargh wrote:
> [URL]http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/[/URL]

I bet he tried writing that on the back of his hand.

"He had to stop three hours into his recital after losing his place, and had to start from the beginning."

Heh heh... nerd.

So we all know the 1 millionth digit of pi now? What an interesting conversation this is.

It's 1

BBC said:
> Pi is an infinite decimal whose numbers never repeat in a pattern.

an irrational number, if you will.

i bet that guy is pretty good at working iut areas of circles really accurately.

1-friggin'-MB!?!


Still, impressive.