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[Anny Ballardini]

Today is the 30th birthday of the man who holds the European record for
reciting pi from memory, *Daniel Paul
Tammet<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,dpta,dv,j736,4dvi,3hrs,fxvj>
*. (books by this
author<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,dpta,dv,ecu,gmzk,3hrs,fxvj>)
It took him five hours and nine minutes to recite 22,514 digits of pi (the
number that begins 3.14).

He was born in London in 1979, and he grew up autistic, epileptic, and with
synesthesia, a rare condition in which a person has unique sensory
experiences. He wrote a memoir called *Born on a Blue Day: Inside the
Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant* (2007). It begins, "I was born on
January 31, 1979 — a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date
is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number 9 or the
sound of loud voices arguing."

Tammet describes synesthesia as "a visual, emotional experience of numbers,
a neurological mixing of the senses, which most commonly results in the
ability to see alphabetical letters and/or numbers in color." Vladimir
Nabokov was also a synesthete, and documented his perspectives and
experiences in the memoir *Speak, Memory*.

Daniel Tammet said, "Numbers are my friends, and they are always around me.
Each one is unique and has its own personality."


-- 
Anny Ballardini
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