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"The greatest number of places to which pi has been
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memorized is 930 by Nigel Hodges, 14, of Bodmin Grammar School,
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Cornwall, England in May, 1973." --with sympathy to Gosper.
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"On the Terman index for intelligence quotients, 150
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represents genius level. The indices are sometimes held to be
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immeasurable above a level of 200, but a figure of 210 has been
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attributed to Kim Ung-Yong of Seoul, Korea (born March 7, 1963).
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He composed poetry and spoke four languages (Korean, English,
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German, and Japanese), and performed integral calculus at the
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age of 4 years 8 months on Tokyo television."
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"Baron Herbert B. De Grote of Mexico City has been attested
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to have extracted the 19th roots of a 133 digit number by an
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algorithm of his own invention by purely mental application in
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a test in Mexico City on May 15, 1973. His answer was
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9,126,254." ---Gosper take heed.
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"The world's most powerful computer is the cdc 7600, first
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delivered in Jan 1969. It can perform 36 million operations
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per second and has an access time of 27.5 nanosecond. Commercial
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deliveries have been scheduled from 1972 at a cost of $9M-$15M.
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The most capacious storage device is the Ampex Terabit
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memory which can store 2.88 x 10^12 bits."
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