He Memorized 100,000 π Digits! Towards Pi Day 2020 & Math Day in the Memory of Stephen Hawking

Описание: For the Love of Pi, Jonas von Essen accepted the World's Toughest Memory Challange. March 14 is now also the official International Day of Mathematics. As you may be aware, Pi Day 2020 marks the second anniversary since Professor Stephen Hawking passed away.

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On March 7, 2020, Jonas von Essen challenged the World Record for the most digits of Pi recited.

In the Extreme Pi Matrix Challenge - the Olympus Mons of Memory, Jonas had to recall a string of 9 digits before and 9 digits after the randomly selected series within the 100,000 digits of the Pi book. He got up to a 22 streak in a row, which has never been done before. After taking one day of rest, the Olympus Mons of Memory was conquered, and Jonas got a streak of 50 in a row! No human ever has got even close to such a result!

To recite 100,000 Pi decimals in one go, the main rule was - Jonas can not make a single error. He was recalling all the numbers of Pi in the right order and was always under the supervision of two witnesses present in the room as well as the chairman of the Pi World Ranking List. As a result - Jonas von Essen is now officially #1 in Europe and the West in general with the result of 24,063 digits of Pi recalled. It is noteworthy that this was the first case of World Record attempt, which was accompanied by video recording and accessible to people around the world via a live stream that got over 178,000 video views, 113,727 minutes of watched time and 6,123 chat messages across the streamed channels within the 21 hr 58 min streamed time.

It was indeed an impressive run. Many more accomplishments are waiting ahead. After some rest, Jonas will keep practicing to reach the desired destination of 100,000 decimals of Pi recited in one go. On our side, we will have more time to prepare, so the overall set and settings of the live stream event will be as good as they can get.

We are grateful to our partners for showing their support and sharing this cause with the World: The Stephen Hawking Foundation, Big Think, Flammable Maths, Life Through a Mathematician's Eyes, Chilled Cow, Epic Maths Time, The Swedish Memory Sports Council, The Pi World Ranking List and Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology.

We are looking forward to bringing positive changes in human memory and letting the world see that the human mind has no boundaries. Let's continue to unite and give people a chance to witness and believe they, too, can improve themselves in any aspect and break illusional mental limits! ‍

Let’s #MakeTheWorldRemember that #OurMindsAreLimitless

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Learn more about the Operating System for human memory: https://memoryos.com