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Pi Day: British Boy Lists 280 Digits of pi From Memory In One Minute
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By Ben Hooper
March 14 (UPI) -
- A 10-year-old British boy cele- brated the run-up to the math- themed holiday Pi Day by breaking a world record for the most decimal places of pi recalled in one minute.
Bristol student Alberto Davila Aragon said his memorization of the mathematical
constant pi start- ed with a March 2024 contest at his school.
"In March 2024, my school organ- ized an exciting pi digits competition with an amazing prize: the chance to pie our head- master in the face," Aragon told Guinness World Records.
Aragon won the contest by memo- rizing 150 digits of
pi, but he kept working on it even after smashing the pi into his headmaster's face.
He has now bro- ken the Guinness World Record by rattling off 280 digits of pi in just one minute.
Pi Day is cele- brated annually on March 14, a reference to the first digits of pi: 3.14.
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