In his head, Dan Knights is thinking "Russia overhears a Bostonian rebel marmoset rashly reply heavily." But he's saying: "468440901224953430146549585. " Knights, a University of Minnesota professor, ...

It is not every day that someone makes a room full of bigwigs look, well, dumb. A group of prominent East Bay residents including Congressman Jerry McNerney and Danville Mayor Mike Shimansky were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Invoking a memory palace involves picturing some structure or place in your mind, and linking items you want to remember with ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – National Pi Day is Tuesday, March 14, and two students from Holy Family Catholic Academy were able to memorize and write all 200 digits of the mathematical constant. Liliana Hunter ...

Foer’s book questions whether Tammet has used mnemonic methods to memorize digits of pi and other information, just like everyone else without synesthesia. But Julian Asher at the Autism Research ...

This story originally ran in 2016 but it running again today in honor of Pi Day. It started out as a typical Monday: a disgruntled haze of snooze buttons and mismatched socks, so when I walked into my ...

Israeli theoretical physicist Yehuda Ashkelon set a new Israeli record in memorizing the mathematical constant Pi (π), recalling and reciting 25,333 decimal places. Ashkelon, a Ben-Gurion University ...

In Daniel Tammet’s mind, three is a dotted green crescent moon shape, one is a sort of white sunburst and four is a blue boomerang. Every number has a distinct color and shape, making the number pi, ...

Many people around the world – including me – have been interested enough in this number, or in memorization itself, to see how many digits they can bank. Pi has infinitely many digits with no ...