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http://www.livescience.com/50134-pi-day-memory-experts.html
This article from pi day 2015 states, "The current Guinness World Record is held by Lu Chao of China, who, in 2005, recited 67,890 digits of pi." The article goes on to say that this man overcame a less than average digit-span score to memorize pi.

The current record holder took the title about one week later:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-pi-places-memorised

Not academically related at all but fun anyway...

We celebrate 3/14 as a family event every year because we have a shelter dog whose real birthday is unknown so DD insists that the day be celebrated as 'cutey pie' day his Official Birthday.

That's adorable!

My family celebrates Pi Day too! It started when my brother, in high school, convinced his math teacher to give him extra credit for memorizing digits of pi. We had a family reunion for "Pi Day of the Century" (2015)

This year I was going to cancel Pi Day on account of DS refusing to participate in math over the last week, but DH brought a pie home for lunch and made pizza for supper. DH and DS did geometry word problems over supper too. Love my geeks!

Awwweee.... that's so cute!!! Love it

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This year's Pi day was low-key. We had miniquiches from Costco for breakfast, I had leftover pizza (pie) for lunch, dinner was normal because we had to get to an event. But the school office was full of pies waiting for kids to pick them up for math class! I guess DS's class didn't observe it this year?

In 3rd grade the kids had a Pi-recitation contest. DS took it out to, I don't know, a couple hundred places, and won by over a hundred. Not an official school event, just the 3rd graders decided it would be fun.