Single Malts - and other odd Musings

Pi

Pi is a transcendental number 
 
After memorizing Pi to the first 250 decimal places I searched the internet for the person who has memorized the greatest number of decimal places - and it is a whooping 100, 000 figures:
Akira Haraguchi of Japan, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday.
 
There is an infinite number of non-repeating decimal places in pi - of which over a trillion have been computed - and after reading about Mr Haraguchi's amazing feat I  think I will quietly slip away and rest on my 250 decimal places memorized.

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