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Pi: Order of magnitude quiz

Posted on:: January 28th, 2005

Hiroyuki Goto holds the record for reciting the value of pi. How many digits did he memorize? To win, you have to come within an order of magnitude. Prize: The satisfaction of know you guessed good.

Drag-select between the X’s to see the answer.

X ————In 1995, he recited over 42,000 digits. It took him 9 hours. ———— X

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4 Responses to “Pi: Order of magnitude quiz”

  1. Mark Siegal, on January 28th, 2005 at 10:07 am Said:

    Whoops. You have a typo that puts you off by an order of magnitude.

    http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/index.html

  2. David Weinberger, on January 28th, 2005 at 10:37 am Said:

    Ack! So I did. How ironic! Thanks, Mark. I’ve fixed the blog.

    Now, of course, I can’t actually believe the figure. OMyDiety!

  3. Tim, on January 29th, 2005 at 6:16 am Said:

    But was he correct?

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