Smashing his own record by a considerable margin, Akira Haraguchi managed to recall a walloping 100,000 digits of pi on Tuesday — a feat that took him a seriously soporific 16 hours.
The 60-year-old’s previous tally of 83,431 digits now appears positively pitiful in comparison, although Haraguchi-san himself remains humble. “The figure 100,000 is just an extension of last year’s record, and I wasn’t really caught up with that particular number. I’m certainly no genius. I’m just an ordinary old guy.”
Genius or not, the digit devotee memorises pi using a technique of his own invention, rhyming the numbers and their order with Japanese words. Plus it is all also rumoured that he doesn’t get out much.
Jerry says
That guy has a crazy brain in his head.