A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.
Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American pi recitation and 12th in the world.
His ranking should be verified by the Pi World Ranking List within two months.
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sounds like this student is trying to disprove the addage, you can,t have your pi and eat it, but you may be able to digest a large chunk of it and then regurgitate it 
3.1415926 is all I can remember...
That student deserves it. Anyway, he likes it. Who's to blame???
QUOTE (Condraz23+Apr 13 2006, 07:04 AM)
3.1415926 is all I can remember...
same here... that's where my memory cuts off
same here... that's where my memory cuts off
"Short-term memory is what we are able to cognitively or consciously pay attention to. So we measure it in terms of digit spans. The national norms according to long term studies determined the average short-term memory digit span to be 7 plus or minus 2 digits. Which makes the norm between 5 and 9."
http://www.improve-iq.com/digit-span.html
Yet we have this: http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/misart.pdf
http://www.improve-iq.com/digit-span.html
Yet we have this: http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/misart.pdf
Seems an absolute waste of time 
.....especially when computers can achieve so much more in a fraction of a second.
Anyhow this kids a 'bit of a retard' when compared to this deeply sad chap:
Japanese sets new mathematics record for reciting 'pi'
First posted 02:54pm (Mla time) July 02, 2005
Agence France-Presse
TOKYO -- A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting "pi," or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.
"I thank you all for your support," Akira Haraguchi told reporters and onlookers when he finished the overnight 13-hour feat at a public hall in Kisarazu in Tokyo's southern suburbs at 1:26 a.m.
.....especially when computers can achieve so much more in a fraction of a second.Anyhow this kids a 'bit of a retard' when compared to this deeply sad chap:
Japanese sets new mathematics record for reciting 'pi'
First posted 02:54pm (Mla time) July 02, 2005
Agence France-Presse
TOKYO -- A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting "pi," or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.
"I thank you all for your support," Akira Haraguchi told reporters and onlookers when he finished the overnight 13-hour feat at a public hall in Kisarazu in Tokyo's southern suburbs at 1:26 a.m.
p.s....What think you?
This is amazing! They should study these peoples brains to see what makes them so different from others.
Not wanting to be disrespectful or anything, but I think some of these people are autistic savants.
I have a question for Gaurav, when using pi in your math problems, how much of what you recite do you use? all of it? 
What's the point of memorizing all that pi? You never use it. I think he could have done much better with his brain.
What's the point of memorizing all that pi? You never use it. I think he could have done much better with his brain.
QUOTE (Condraz23+)
3.1415926 is all I can remember...
Damn. I stop at nine.
As far as I'm concerned, that's all I need to memorize. My calculator does the rest.
Damn. I stop at nine.
As far as I'm concerned, that's all I need to memorize. My calculator does the rest.
ALl I know is 3.1416. In my Math class, we use to round it off so it's easier to compute. Coz if you will use 3.1415926........ in computations, where will you go??
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