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January 28, 2005

Pi: Order of magnitude quiz

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

Posted by D. Weinberger at January 28, 2005 09:10 AM

Comments

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

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

Posted by: Mark Siegal | January 28, 2005 10:07 AM

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

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

Posted by: David Weinberger | January 28, 2005 10:37 AM

But was he correct?

Posted by: Tim | January 29, 2005 06:16 AM

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