New Pi memorization record! Check out the news here: http://www.newsgd.com/culture/peopleandlife/200611280032.htm
A New World Record
Pi calculated to 1.24 trillion digits
If confirmed, Japanese figuring feat would smash old record
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The old record was held by David and Gregory Chudnovsky they held the record for calculating pi! In March, 1996, they calculated over 8 billion digits of pi on their own supercomputer in Manhattan, New York. Elapsed time on the computer was about one week for calculating and verifying.
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Pi to 17.1 billion digits were computed twice by Y. Kanada and D. Takahashi by 2 different methods. The new record of the Chudnovsky brothers is still unconfirmed as of June 28, 1997.
The Pi memory champion is Hiroyoki Goto, who memorized and recited an amazing 42,195 digits.
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The old memory champion was Hideaki Tomoyori, born Sep. 30, 1932. In Yokohama, Japan, Hideaki recited pi from memory to 40,000 places in 17 hrs. 21 min. including breaks totaling 4 hrs. 15min. on 9-10 of March in 1987 at the Tsukuba University Club House.
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Researchers have come up with a formula that can determine individual digits of pi but in binary form.
Colin Percival, 17, at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia has calculated the 5 trillionth binary digit of pi which is 0. It took 5 months and the help of 75 computers in 6 countries! SN 10/28/95
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