What is the farthest digit of pi that has been recited?

In less than five minutes, he has recited the first 800 digits of pi from memory. On March 17 sophomore Ryan Ly made his first official successful recitation of the digits of this irrational number in front of his classmates and teachers. Despite having memorized 800 digits of pi, Ly is still far from the current world record of 42,195 digits held by Hiroyuki Goto of Japan since 1995. For next pi day, March 14, 2005, Ly has still more plans for expanding his pi-digits. He points to his printed copy of pi and to the solid line, an indication of his goal for next year: the 1000th digit.

A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record. Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday. He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo ...

The Guinness Book of Records currently lists Hiroyuki Goto, also from Japan, as the official record holder for reciting pi from memory. He recited the ratio out to 42,195 decimal places in 1995. Guinness never entered Haraguchi's 1995 feat in its record book. Kate White, a spokeswoman for the London-based Guinness World Records, said Haraguchi would have to make a record claim on their Web site and supply evidence, including video footage and witness statements to be included in the book. "We would review if the evidence supports the claim. If he's done it to 100,000, he would be looking at the next world record," White said. If he can supply evidence of his 1995 claim, that would be listed as well, White said. If he never applied in 1995, they couldn't include him in the book, White said.