Man Recites First 4,000 Digits Of Pi But Doesn't Get Record

[matcom]

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SYDNEY, Australia -- For Chris Lyons, reciting a 4,400 digit number was as easy as Pi.

Lyons, 36, recited the first 4,400 digits of Pi -- a mathematical value that has an infinite number of decimal places -- without a single error at the 2006 Mindsports Australia Festival, organizer David Cordover said Tuesday.

Cordover said Lyons, a memory coach from Melbourne, took 2 1/2 hours to complete the feat.

Lyons said he spent just one week memorizing the digits before reciting them for judges at the festival Monday.

"With the right techniques and a bit of practice you can remember whatever you want," he said.

His accomplishment is far from a record.

In July, a Japanese psychiatric counselor recited Pi to 83,431 decimal places from memory, breaking his own personal best of 54,000 digits and setting an unofficial world record, according to media reports.

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[GOPisEvil]

1. I can get to 3.14. What do I win?

:D

[Hugin]

2. The chance to increase it to four digits!

A wonderful prize.

[kick-ass-bob]

4. 3.1415

9?

That's about it for me.

[XNASA]

3. Yum. I love Pi.

[madinmaryland]

5. Someone with way too much time on their hands!!

[DS1]

6. That's why I wrote it on my dick

Well, the first 60,000 numbers anyway :eyes: