Israeli seventh-grader Baruch Adler broke a national record Monday having memorized the first 2,022 decimal digits of pi.
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The event took place on March 14, the international Pi Day, and in Israel, National Science Day. The date is also the birthday of Albert Einstein.
Pi, written as the Greek letter for p, or π, is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. In decimal form, the value of pi is approximately 3.14. But pi is an irrational number, meaning that its decimal form neither ends nor becomes repetitive. Some computer programs have calculated its value to an astounding 62.8 trillion digits.
Although most struggle to remember even just several decimal digits of pi, every year on Pi Day enthusiasts gather to compete in their knowledge of the digits.
"It was fun to set a higher goal each time and achieve it," Adler, who is from Yeruham, said after the event. "I started with 750, then 1,000, and today, 2,022." The previous record stood at 1,207 digits.
Adler achieved the record based on the criteria – in the presence of two witnesses and recorded. His results will be sent to the Pi World Ranking List.
According to the list, the current world record for reciting the most digits of pi belongs to Suresh Kumar Sharma of India, who recited pi to 70,030 decimal places in 2015.
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