Wikipedia for the win.
This is what we find out when Jeff has free time. Time for a lesson in pi!!!
"A value [of Pi] truncated to 11 decimal places is accurate enough to calculate the circumference of the earth with a precision of a millimeter, and one truncated to 39 decimal places is sufficient to compute the circumference of any circle that fits in the observable universe to a precision comparable to the size of a hydrogen atom."
So on earth we only will ever need 11 or 12 decimal places for pi. And in the WHOLE FUCKING UNIVERSE, we couldn't possibly need more than 40 places. Neat.
"Akira Haraguchi (born 1946), a retired Japanese engineer, currently working as a mental health counsellor and business consultant in Mobara City, is known for memorizing and reciting digits of Pi.
He set the current world record (100,000 digits) in 16 hours, starting at 9 a.m on October 3, 2006 and having recited up to 83,431 digits by nightfall, stopping with digit number 100,000 at 1:28 a.m. on October 4, 2006. The event was filmed in a public hall in Kisarazu, east of Tokyo, where he had five-minute breaks every two hours to eat onigiri rice balls to keep up his energy levels. Even his trips to the toilet were filmed to prove that the exercise was legitimate. Haraguchi's previous world record (83,431), was performed from July 1, 2005 to July 2, 2005."
You can't tell me I have too much free time on my hands, because I am just READING about this guy. He has spent years of his life memorizing the most useless part of a useful number.
Plus, he's a mental health counsellor.
"A value [of Pi] truncated to 11 decimal places is accurate enough to calculate the circumference of the earth with a precision of a millimeter, and one truncated to 39 decimal places is sufficient to compute the circumference of any circle that fits in the observable universe to a precision comparable to the size of a hydrogen atom."
So on earth we only will ever need 11 or 12 decimal places for pi. And in the WHOLE FUCKING UNIVERSE, we couldn't possibly need more than 40 places. Neat.
"Akira Haraguchi (born 1946), a retired Japanese engineer, currently working as a mental health counsellor and business consultant in Mobara City, is known for memorizing and reciting digits of Pi.
He set the current world record (100,000 digits) in 16 hours, starting at 9 a.m on October 3, 2006 and having recited up to 83,431 digits by nightfall, stopping with digit number 100,000 at 1:28 a.m. on October 4, 2006. The event was filmed in a public hall in Kisarazu, east of Tokyo, where he had five-minute breaks every two hours to eat onigiri rice balls to keep up his energy levels. Even his trips to the toilet were filmed to prove that the exercise was legitimate. Haraguchi's previous world record (83,431), was performed from July 1, 2005 to July 2, 2005."
You can't tell me I have too much free time on my hands, because I am just READING about this guy. He has spent years of his life memorizing the most useless part of a useful number.
Plus, he's a mental health counsellor.