Memorize 14,000 numbers in order 'Guiness Record', what's the secret?
Sep 05, 2024
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According to Guinness World Records, Deepu V, 33, who lives in India, recited 14,000 numbers in the last 49 minutes, breaking the previous record of 10,122.
What he memorized in order are sub-decimal numbers of 'Oiler numbers' that begin with 2.71828. This number is known as an unrepeated irrational number.
Taking on the challenge of recording, he was blindfolded and examined to prevent irregularities. The recording challenge method was conducted in such a way that even a single number was wrong or if it stopped for more than 15 seconds, it was disqualified.
He remembered 14,000 digits in 49 minutes and broke the record by saying them all in the right order.
He has been able to memorize numbers easily since he was a child, and now he memorizes more than 500 phone numbers.
Earlier, he set an Indian record by reciting a 2000-digit 'Pi' number faster than other challengers.
He took up the challenge after learning that Euler had a world record for memorizing numbers.
For four months, he prepared the record in his own way of memorizing.
He "First arranged ten columns and twenty rows on a page. Write 5 digits in each column, so there are 50 digits in each row, and if you add up to 20 rows, the total is 1000 digits. If I made 14 pages in this way, I could write down a total of 14,000 digits," he said.
It also went through a process of memorizing 250 digits a day for four days of the week and checking the memorized numbers for three days. He repeated this for four months and succeeded in breaking the record.
"I'm happy to have the official Guinness World Records title," he said. "I'll try to make a new record of memorization."
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