Illinois 5th grader memorizes 1,011 digits of Pi

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Geneva 5th grader memorizes 1,011 digits of Pi
Wyatt Gross, a student at Mill Creek Elementary in Geneva, memorized 1, 011 digits of pi.

GENEVA, Ill. -- If you can barely remember your own phone number, just listen to what an Illinois fifth grader did.



Wyatt Gross, a student at Mill Creek Elementary in Geneva, memorized 1,011 digits of pi. He recited the whole thing at school on Tuesday, breaking a school record.



March 14 is Pi Day, which most of us probably only remember from our math classes as 3.14.



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