【MorningBrew毎日翻訳】3/14(Thu)
Good morning. Each Pi Day, we remind you about Akira Haraguchi, who in 2016 set the unofficial world record for reciting the most digits of pi: 100,000 over more than 16 hours. He did it by mentally linking each digit with a syllable and creating a collection of epic stories from the words those syllables formed.
For Haraguchi, pi is more than just a number—it’s a spiritual calling. He told The Guardian: “All things in this world, including ourselves, are aggregate sums of atoms, which are made up of rotating electrons. The ultimate history of mankind is moving toward a happy ending for people of all races. The Earth, the galaxy, and the universe all rotate. In other words, I think rotation is the absolute truth. So as long as I’m thinking about pi, I think I can live a life according to truth.”
Happy Pi Day!
mentally:心の中で
syllable:音節
collection of epic stories:壮大な物語の集まり
aggregate:集合体
mankind:人体、人類
3.14はMBはホワイトデーの話をするかと思いまいたが円周率にちなんだ話でしたね。と、いうのもアメリカではホワイトデーの概念自体がなく実はホワイトデーは日本発祥のイベントなんですよね。
私の常日頃の生活をベースに、皆さんの役に立てたり、探しているものを紹介できたらと思っています。今後もよろしくお願いします!