Three point one four one five huh?

Here's some crazy news for you. A guy in Chiba prefecture (that's a little east of Tokyo, round the bay) just broke his own record for reciting pi to an insane number of digits.

A man from Chiba Prefecture on Wednesday broke his own world record, reciting the value of pi -- the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter -- to 100,000 digits, a feat that took 16 hours.

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Haraguchi said he will seek to register the feat with Guinness World Records, which currently lists 42,195 digits as the record, set in 1995 by a Japanese university student.

Haraguchi filed an application with Guinness World Records after he set the previous mark in July of last year but it has not been listed yet, he said. (The Japan Times)

You just never know what those wacky Japanese are going to get up to next!

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