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# Who Needs Beer . . .
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1536/
- Published: 2005-07-02T19:19:56.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-02T19:19:56.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

when you have pi to avert ennui?

> Akira Haraguchi, 59, managed to recite the number's first 83,431 decimal places, almost doubling the previous record held by another Japanese.

> He had to stop three hours into his recital after losing his place, and had to start from the beginning. . .

> He hopes to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records to replace his fellow countryman Hiroyuki Goto, who managed to recite 42,195 numbers as a 21-year-old student in 1995.

> Mr Haraguchi had already recited the ratio up to about 54,000 digits last September, but was forced to drop the challenge when the facility hosting the event closed for the night.

> So far, pi haw been calculated to 1.24 trillion decimal places with the aid of a supercomputer.