sice, ale tak protivné nám, ach, číslice ludolfovy! shall i, god oh almighty, remember such a long string of numbers, great and famous archimedes, help my careworn being, give me the power, to recite by heart all the digits, which may be famous, but also hated by some of us, the digits of ludolph van ceulen. serbian (16 decimal places) čak i grci i stari vavilonci su kazali: obime kad deliš krugovim prečnikom dobijaš neophodan nam pi. even greeks and old babylonians have told: when dividing circumferences with circle's diameter you obtain the indispensable pi. italian (30 decimal places) non è dato a tutti ricordare il numero aureo del sommo filosofo archimede. certuni sostengon che si può ricordar tale numero, ma questi soli poi non recitano che un centone insensato. not anybody can retain the golden number of the great philosopher archimedes. there are who claim it is possible to recall this number, but then they just recite a senseless cento. (10 decimal places) chi è nudo e crepa limonando la tubera, lieto lui crepa sanskrit the katapayadi system of verses is basically a system of code so that things can be defined in a way so that people can remember. the code is as follows: 123456789 कखगघङचछजझ टठडढणतथदध पफबभम यरलवशषसहक्ष with the above key in place, sri bharathi krishna tirtha in his vedic mathematics gives the following verse: गोपी भाग्य मधुव्रात श्रुङ्गिशो दधिसन्धिग | खलजीवित खाताव गलहालारसंधार | if we replace the code from the above table in the above verse, here is what we get. 31 41 5926 535 89793 23846 264 33832792 that gives us π/10=0.31415926535897932384626433832792 slovene the following piem gives π to 30 decimal places. naj z rimo v pesmi počastimo še nekoga: slovi naj kroga krotilec, sirakužan! število izračunal nam je res čudovito, tule skrito. če nemara kdaj sam kod pozabimo brž to pesmico uporabimo. now i, even i, would celebrate in rhymes inept, the great immortal syracusan rivaled nevermore who in his wondrous lore passed on before left men his guidance how to circles mensurate. —a.c. orr —translated by janko moder memorization record holders even before computers calculated π, memorizing a record number of digits became an obsession for some people. the record for memorizing digits of π, certified by guinness world records, is 70,000 digits, recited in india by rajveer meena in 9 hours and 27 minutes on 21 march 2015. on october 3, 2006, akira haraguchi, a retired japanese engineer, claimed to have recited 100,000 decimal places, but the claim was not verified by guinness world records. david fiore was an early record holder for pi memorization. fiore's record stood as an american record for more than 27 years, which remains the longest time period for an american recordholder. he was the first person to break the 10,000 digit mark. suresh kumar sharma holds limca book of records for the most decimal places of pi recited by memory. he rattled off 70,030 numbers in 17 hours 14 minutes on october 21, 2015.