83,431 Places and Counting

The folks at the Guinness Book of Records are in the process of verifying the following:

Japanese psychiatric counselor has recited pi to 83,431 decimal places from memory, breaking his own personal best of 54,000 digits and setting an unofficial world record, a media report said Saturday (MSNBC).

A most amazing feat. But you've got to wonder if he takes any grief when his memory fails him. I picture his wife, for instance … "Oh, sure, you can recite pi to 83,431 places but you can't remember our wedding anniversary?"