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PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS

* A Chicago Sun-Times wire service report in April identified a
Chinese boy, Zhang Zhuo, 12, as having just set a record by
reciting from memory the value of pi (the ratio of a circle's
circumference to its diameter) to 4,000 decimal places--a feat
which took him 25 minutes.  However, two months earlier, a
Seattle Times wire service story had identified a Japanese man,
Hiroyuki Goto, 21, as having captured the world record--to over
42,000 decimal places--a feat which took him over nine hours.
[Chicago Sun-Times, 4-24-95; Seattle Times, 2-26-95] 

Evan