Pi Memorising Records for Schools

The UK Record:

701 decimal places
Daniel Ramsay
(S2)
4 / 3 / 08
Supervisors:
Mr A Taylor & Mr A Dunlop
Boclair Academy

The Scottish Record:

701 decimal places
Daniel Ramsay
(S2)
4 / 3 / 08
Supervisors:
Mr A Taylor & Mr A Dunlop
Boclair Academy

The Welsh Record:

203 decimal places
Daniel Hough
(Year 10)
25 / 6 / 01
Supervisors:
Ms S Jordan & Mr D Fisher

Monmouth Comprehensive School

The Madras College Record:

160 decimal places
Dave Stewart
(S3)
5 / 10 / 99
Supervisor:
Mr K Nisbet
Madras College
St Andrews
See previous records

See previous announcements

Rules for Record Attempts

  • The Challenger must be a student attending full-time at any UK School at the time of the record attempt.
  • The Challenger shall write down on paper the decimal value of Pi as far as he/she can remember it and shall hand this first attempt to one of the supervisors. After one minute, on a fresh piece of paper and without sight of the first attempt, a second attempt should be written and handed to the supervisor.
  • The number of decimal places memorised in a record attempt will be the number of decimal places from the 1st decimal place to the decimal place immediately before the first error which occurs in either the first or the second written attempt.
  • Two Supervisors are required at any record attempt. Supervisors must be teaching staff at the school concerned.
  • Notification of a new record should be sent by E-mail from the school concerned to madrascollege.maths@fife.gov.uk We will ask for confirmation by E-mail once we receive the initial notification.

The first 10000 Digits of Pi are available for prospective Challengers.
You may like to read up on Memory Techniques for remembering numbers.

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