The record was broadcast live on SVT Västerbotten where viewers could follow Andrei as he crunched decimals for several hours.
As he listed number after number, in English, he occasionally paused briefly to comment.
"I hate this sequence," he said just after 20,000 decimal places before continuing.
Andrei beat the European record – 24,063 decimal places – by a wide margin and finally reached 47,466 decimal places. The entire attempt was monitored by two controllers but may need to be re-checked, according to SVT.
During a break at 25,000, Andrei also told us that he also designed his own speech.
It's a much more romantic number than pi. Pi is completely neutral, it's just a value, but the number I came up with has a romantic background so you could make novels out of it.
Facts: Pi
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Pi is a mathematical constant, which is the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference.
The number pi is normally abbreviated to 3.14 but contains an infinite number of decimal places. The world record for memorizing the number's decimal places is held by Suresh Kumar Sharma from India, who remembered 70,030 digits.
