Memorize the first 14,000 digits of Euler’s number, using a trick

How many digits of the number Pi can you memorize? Very few people in the world come close to the level of the Indian Deepu V, who He has broken the Guinness record by repeating, without making a mistake, the first 14,000 digits of Euler’s number. He used a trick that he invented himself.

The memory It is practiced, but you have to be born with certain conditions. Deepu V has always had a good memory, ever since he can remember. He doesn’t need an agenda: has memorized the 500 telephone numbers of the people you know.

He also learned the first 2,000 digits of the number Pi as a hobby. But he was looking for a bigger challenge. And he found it.

The trick to memorizing 14,000 digits of Euler’s number

Deepu V discovered, by chance, that the record for memorizing Euler’s number was 10,122 digits long. And he decided to break it.

He Euler’s number either Napier’s constantis an irregular number that begins with 2.71828, but has infinite digits that are never repeated, similar to the number Pi. It is the base of logarithmsand is also used in equations, and other branches of mathematics.

Learning thousands of numbers at once is almost impossible. Deepu V invented his own methoda trick to make memorizing numbers easier.

He himself explains it on the website of World Guinness Records“I created a table with 10 columns and 20 rows. I put five digits in each column, so in one column of a full row there are 50 numbers. And with 20 rows on a page there will be a total of 1,000 digits. Likewise, in 14 pages I was able to fit 14,000 digits.”

Deepu spent four months memorizing those 14 pages made up of tables of 1,000 numbers. From row to row, 50 figures every time. From Monday to Thursday he memorized them, and the other three days of the week he repeated them, recording himself, to correct mistakes.

On August 29, he sat at a table with the judges of the World Guinness Records, with eyes covered with a maskas you can see in the photo at the top of the news story. A doctor examined his ears to make sure they weren’t housing any tiny earphones that were “blowing” his numbers.

The rules were simple: if he got a single digit wrong or paused for more than 15 seconds, the record was void.

For 49 minutes without stopping, Deepu V recited the first 14,000 digits of Euler’s number, without making a mistake.. Challenge overcome, and a new Guinness record which will be very difficult to overcome. Does human memory have limits?

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