Reciting pi a piece of cake
10/04/2006 @ 8:00 pm
Japanese man Akira Haraguchi is has broken the world record for reciting the constant pi up to its 100,000th digit. The feat took Haraguchi more than 16 hours to complete, and shattered his own previous record which he set last year by reaching the 83,431st digit. Because of this, Haraguchi seems to think that adding a mere 16,500 digits was that big of a deal.
“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,” Haraguchi said.
Haraguchi plans to submit is record to Guinness World Records.
With regard to this and similar ‘feats’ that get into the Guinness book, it really is astounding how much time and energy some people are prepared to put into something so utterly pointless.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:30 pmIf only such people felt driven to direct their efforts into something for the common good.