Monday, 12. March 2007
Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 12, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Pi fans to meet March 14 (3.14, get it?)
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long.
They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
Daniel Tammet first came to worldwide attention in March 2004 on international Pi Day (3/14, of course) when he recited, from memory, Pi to 22,514 decimal places.
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