Beijing: A Chinese college student has set a new Guinness world record by reciting almost 68,000 digits of pi or the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle in just over one day.
Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student in Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in Shaanxi Province, took 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of pi without an error.
He achieved his feat on November 19th last year but was only recently confirmed to be the new record holder by the Guinness headquarters in Britain.