Man Smashes pi Memory Record

Tokyo - A Japanese mental health counsellor broke the record for reciting pi from memory in a marathon session from Friday to early on Saturday morning.

Newspaper pictures showed Akira Haraguchi, 59, screwing up his face with concentration as he recited pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83 431 decimal places.

Starting at 9am on Friday, Haraguchi, from Chiba, near Tokyo, lost his place around noon. He quickly restarted, completing his feat of recall in the early hours of Saturday, media reports said.

Haraguchi hopes to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, replacing the current record-holder, also Japanese, who recited pi to 42 195 decimal places as a student, Kyodo news agency said.

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