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the Guinness world record is over 70k digits set by Rajveer Meena: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised https://www.guin
by begemotz 7y ago
the Guinness world record is over 70k digits set by Rajveer Meena: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-p...
- imglorp 7y agoSuch an awe inspiring achievement, to store that much structured data accurately. What else is the brain capable of doing?
- Ma8ee 7y agoStructured?
- imglorp 7y agoLossless, ordered set of symbols with no errors. It's much different than remembering a story or a travel route or an image.
- Ma8ee 7y agoYes, but structured is in general in opposition to random, which the digits of pi seem to be. No one knows of any structure in the digits of pi.
- athriren 7y agoBut pi defines its structure. By being seemingly random and irrational, it has created a specific ordered set of symbols and imbued that set with meaning because it has a referent: we call it pi.
- Ma8ee 7y agoIt’s not random, but that doesn’t mean it is structured. And there’s absolutely no difference between the digits of pi and a completely random sequence for anyone trying to memorise them.