Article: Japan Pi Value Calculation Earns Record

Article: Pi Day is something to celebrate.
Blade (Toledo, OH);  March 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Posamentier, co-author of Pi: A Biography of the World ... the world record for reciting pi from memory -- to 67,890 ... practice, according to Guinness World Records. For those who are satisfied ... the song with the digits of pi. "I've been teaching it ...

Article: Pi to the 12,887th place
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  February 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399 Marc Umile recited pi to 12,887 decimals, a North ... maintains a Web site that lists pi record-holders for each continent ... digits listed by the Guinness World Records, a feat accomplished in China ... he recited on the same day as pi. And three ...

Article: 3.14 is only the 1st piece of this pi
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 15, 2008 ;     697 words ... ... Oh number pi, oh number pi, your digits are unending ... practiced memorizing digits of pi for a competition next Thursday ... application to the Guinness Book of World Records. If the judges don't accept the pi chain submission, they have ...

Article: If Only the Party Could Go On Forever: On 3/14, Students Revel in ...
The Washington Post;  March 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... digits at the university's 2006 Pi Day contest and planned to participate ... record holder when he recited pi from memory to 67,890 places ... 2005, according to Guinness World Records. Tania can't imagine how ... irrational. Instead, she wrote a "pi-ku": Archimedes wrote a ...

Article: If Only the Party Could Go On Forever; On 3/14, Students Revel in ...
The Washington Post;  March 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... digits at the university's 2006 Pi Day contest and planned to participate ... record holder when he recited pi from memory to 67,890 places ... 2005, according to Guinness World Records. Tania can't imagine how ... irrational. Instead, she wrote a "pi-ku": Archimedes wrote a ...

Article: An ode to an irrational number: 3.14 was a perfect date for a ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  March 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Ceulen computed 35 digits of pi by hand. In 2005, Akira Haraguchi ... first 83,431 decimal places of pi, the BBC reported. The Guinness Book of World Records credits Yasumasa Kanada of the ... most accurate calculation of pi, to 1.241 tri

Article: Man takes pi further afield.(Marc Umile)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  January 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... was a little strange. But why pi? Because it's there. Because ... maintains a Web site that lists pi record-holders for each continent ... digits listed by the Guinness World Records, a feat accomplished in China ... he recited on the same day as pi. And three months earlier ...