pi or omeros
Boing Boing reports (via the BBC) that a Japanese man managed to “remember” pi to 83,431 decimal places, doubling the world record. He took ‘several hours’ to deliver this mindless sequence of syllables (presumably in Japanese).
I would have preferred to have been around 11 years or so ago when Stephen Powelson used to beat out half a dozen books of Homer’s Iliad. Powelson spent 16 retirement years memorizing the poem’s more than 200,000 syllables.
Posted by on 07/02 at 02:06 PM
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