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Article: Pi to the 12,887th place
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- February 18, 2007
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3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399 Marc Umile recited
pi to 12,887 decimals, a North American record. Some easier ways to
get high on pi: The Joy of Pi: www.joy ofpi.com/ Pi world rankings:
www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/index.html
PHILADELPHIA - Remember pi? Most of us learned the 3.14 part.
Marc Umile has gone oh-so-much farther.
Last month, Umile was certified as the North American record-
holder for memorizing digits of the mathematical constant. He spewed
out 12,887 digits, to be exact - a feat that took him 3 hours and 40
minutes.
For those whose math skills are a little fuzzy, that's the ratio
of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
It begins with 3.14159265 and ...