B.C. boy, 9, loves hockey, his rabbit and pi, which he has memorized to 2,030 digits
PITT MEADOWS, B.C. — Nine-year-old Lucas Mason Yao loves the Vancouver Canucks, his pet bunny Chomp and pi, the mathematical constant that’s celebrated every March 14 around the world.
Yao, from Pitt Meadows, B.C., has memorized the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter to 2,030 digits, far beyond the 3.14 that’s close enough for most people.
The feat that he achieved last year took 23 minutes to recite and earned him 115th place on the world ranking for pi memorization, a list that’s topped by a man from India who has memorized it to more than 70,000 digits.
Yao says he has a good memory and has been fascinated by numbers since he was a baby.