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It’s not every day you come across someone who can recite more than just the first six digits of pi (π), which are 3.14159 in case you were wondering. But for 14-year-old Penang student K Poonyamitra, all it took was a little bit of practice, allowing her to recite a whopping 300 digits from memory.
If your high school math isn’t too rusty, you’ll know that pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. You might also know that pi has never-ending decimal places, though mathematicians say its true value has over 300 trillion digits with no end or repeating patterns.
Two months of practice
For Poonyamitra, a Form 2 student at St George’s Girls School, all it took was daily practice over a period of two months, memorising…