What is the farthest digit of pi that has been recited?

zbeckabee

As of 2003, Dr. Yasumasa Kanada held the world record calculating the number of digits in the decimal expansion of pi – exactly 1.2411 trillion digits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Kanada Sep 06 06, 10:51 PM

davejacobs

Has anyone worked out how long it would take him (or anyone) to 'recite' them all? Sep 07 06, 2:36 AM

Brainyblonde

Most accurate value of pi As continuation of a long-running project, Yasumasa Kanada of the University of Tokyo has calculated the number pi to 1,241,100,000,000 decimal places. It has been done using an HITACHI SR8000/MPP computer http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47055 Sep 07 06, 8:22 AM

zbeckabee

dave--I was going by recite meaning "list or enumerate" but a verbal recital would be quite lengthy. Sep 07 06, 9:15 AM

Brainyblonde

In less than five minutes, he has recited the first 800 digits of pi from memory. On March 17 sophomore Ryan Ly made his first official successful recitation of the digits of this irrational number in front of his classmates and teachers. Despite having memorized 800 digits of pi, Ly is still far from the current world record of 42,195 digits held by Hiroyuki Goto of Japan since 1995. For next pi day, March 14, 2005, Ly has still more plans for expanding his pi-digits. He points to his printed copy of pi and to the solid line, an indication of his goal for next year: the 1000th digit. http://alpha01.dm.unito.it/personalpages/cerruti/mathnews0504.html Sep 07 06, 9:59 AM

qwertyuiop1234

The current record is 42,195 digits recited by Hiroyuki Goto. You can see the world ranking list for memorization here: http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/index.html Sep 15 06, 4:30 PM

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