that site also holds records in digits of √2 and e
And also both while juggling! That is cool.
All these stories about memorising things reminds me of an old movie I saw ages and ages ago. I can't really remember much, but there is a guy who is a bit of a genius and one of his talents is knowing the phonebook back to front. When he meets people he already knows their phone number.
]]>I guess what that means is, that he is actually doing the calculations in his head, but because of that connection that has been made, he's not aware of what exactly he's doing, he just feels the result.
*edit* That site also holds records in digits of
and e]]>The one guy said he had like a siezure when he was six and was a genius ever since. Genius is a disease, its true.
"May the lord smite me with it.. AND MAY I NEVER RECOVER!"
]]>Doesn't it feel great to be one of the elite members of the society
Okay, its nice to know only 20% got it right! Elite us!
Its sometimes nice to know you belong to a very small group of the total population. Like, sometimes, when I need the motivation, I tell myself, I am one of the (probable) million people on the planet who can tell the value of pi to 35 places from memory! A million is a very small part of 6.5 billion, isn't it?
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288.....
Yeah I mean how easy can it get? He had all the time he needed, its a multiple choice question, and all the numbers are less then 100. All you need to know to solve this is your times tables from 1 to 7!
I have a feeling he didn't know what a square number was.
But what I find even more disturbing is only about 20% of the audience voted for 25. Not good at all.
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