Hiroyuki Goto of Tokyo, Japan, born 2 August1973, recited pi from memory to 42,195 decimal places at NHK Broadcasting Centre, Tokyo on 18 February1995. This set the world record at the time, which was held for more than a decade until Akira Haraguchi beat it in 2005. Tokyo , literally eastern capital) is the capital of Japan and one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Lower-case Ï (the lower case letter is used for the constant) When a circles diameter is 1, its circumference is Ï. The mathematical constant Ï is an irrational real number, approximately equal to 3. ... Decimal, or denary, notation is the most common way of writing the base 10 numeral system, which uses various symbols for ten distinct quantities (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, called digits) together with the decimal point and the sign symbols + (plus) and − (minus... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Akira Haraguchi (åå£è) is best known for memorizing 83,431 digits of pi. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...