Loooooooooser
Zoraja @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:14 pm
And I thought I had too much time on my hands. How the fuck do you memorize 8k numbers???????
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SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.
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Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.
His ranking should be verified by the Pi World Ranking List within two months.
"I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess I did OK," said Gaurav, a junior at Salem High School.
But his mathematical feat won the praise of others, including the math and computer science teacher who got Gaurav interested in it.
"I'm still stunned," said Linda Gooding, one of three contest judges. She then joked, "That's a couple more than I can do."
Gaurav began memorizing Pi while a student in Gooding's class. Gooding holds the competition every year, and said she expected students to learn about 40 digits. Gaurav recited nearly 2,990 the first time.
Gaurav's parents promised him an
Xbox 360 video game console if he had reached his goal. His father, Jogesh Rajav, jokingly offered to get him "an Xbox, but no game."
But Gaurav ultimately turned town his mother Seema's offer to buy him the game system anyway because of their deal.
He will try for the record again in May.
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Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.
His ranking should be verified by the Pi World Ranking List within two months.
"I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess I did OK," said Gaurav, a junior at Salem High School.
But his mathematical feat won the praise of others, including the math and computer science teacher who got Gaurav interested in it.
"I'm still stunned," said Linda Gooding, one of three contest judges. She then joked, "That's a couple more than I can do."
Gaurav began memorizing Pi while a student in Gooding's class. Gooding holds the competition every year, and said she expected students to learn about 40 digits. Gaurav recited nearly 2,990 the first time.
Gaurav's parents promised him an
Xbox 360 video game console if he had reached his goal. His father, Jogesh Rajav, jokingly offered to get him "an Xbox, but no game."
But Gaurav ultimately turned town his mother Seema's offer to buy him the game system anyway because of their deal.
He will try for the record again in May.
dgthe3 @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:07 pm
Its not impossible, not by a long shot. How i would do it is by remembering groups and then remembering the order of those groups, kinda like music. Say you wanted to memorize all the words in all the songs by a particular artist. Its pointless to try and memorize them all from start to finnish. You start with 1 line off of 1 song from 1 album, then another line form the same song and so on. Then remember the order of the lines for 1 song and you have that song memorized. Keep going for each song, and do the same thing for the albums.
Zoraja @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:13 pm
It still would take a long time and I really don tthink it is worth it.
dgthe3 @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:15 pm
Oh of course, its absolutely pointless and it requires a lot of time and even more ambition, but it can be done
BluesBud @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:16 pm
That and $1.87 will get him a medium french roast.
denmns @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:17 pm
Its like playing that game "SIMON". Once you are use to the first part done over again and again, it sometimes become automatic.
This person probably studied and repeated it so many times, that it is second nature to him!
Zoraja @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:24 pm
somebody needs to get laid!
crystalsm @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:25 pm
Damn, that's one hell of a memory! Kudos to the kid for having the patience to sit down and memorize all that!
dgthe3 @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:26 pm
$1:
somebody needs to get laid!
You too?
denmns @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:43 pm
I get it regularly, thank you!!!!!
C'mon Zoraja, get some !!!!
Zoraja @ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:45 pm
As of midnight tonight only 20 more days to wait 
:D:D:D:D:D