Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Pi--don't ask, don't tell

No pi jokes, just a quote from a forty-year-old who memorized over 12,000 of the digits:

"He says he made a mistake in his training: He told too many people what he was up to. His wife, his family — they were rooting for him. Most of the rest dismissed him as a weirdo.

'I have a delicate confidence level in a way,' he says. 'Maybe I don't believe in myself too much. If you do something of this magnitude, keep it a secret. Don't tell anybody what you're doing.'"

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