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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3990534" data-attributes="member: 18222">The record for the most digits of pi memorized belongs to Rajveer Meena of Vellore, India, who recited 70,000 decimal places of pi on March 21, 2015, <a href="http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised" target="_blank">according to Guinness World Records</a>.The advent of computers radically improved humans&#039; knowledge of pi. Between 1949 and 1967, the number of known decimal places of pi skyrocketed from 2,037 on the ENIAC computer to 500,000 on the CDC 6600 in Paris, according to &quot;A History of Pi&quot; (St. Martin&#039;s Press, 1976). And late last year, Peter Trueb, a scientist at the Swiss company Dectris Ltd., used a multithreaded computer program to calculate 22,459,157,718,361 digits of pi over the course of 105 days, <a href="http://pi2e.ch/" target="_blank">according to the group</a>.<img src="https://img.purch.com/w/553/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saXZlc2NpZW5jZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA5MC8zMzEvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGktcG9seWdvbi1tZXRob2QuanBn" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3990534, member: 18222"] The record for the most digits of pi memorized belongs to Rajveer Meena of Vellore, India, who recited 70,000 decimal places of pi on March 21, 2015, [URL='http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised']according to Guinness World Records[/URL]. The advent of computers radically improved humans' knowledge of pi. Between 1949 and 1967, the number of known decimal places of pi skyrocketed from 2,037 on the ENIAC computer to 500,000 on the CDC 6600 in Paris, according to "A History of Pi" (St. Martin's Press, 1976). And late last year, Peter Trueb, a scientist at the Swiss company Dectris Ltd., used a multithreaded computer program to calculate 22,459,157,718,361 digits of pi over the course of 105 days, [URL='http://pi2e.ch/']according to the group[/URL]. [CENTER][IMG]https://img.purch.com/w/553/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saXZlc2NpZW5jZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA5MC8zMzEvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGktcG9seWdvbi1tZXRob2QuanBn[/IMG][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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