There is a young man in China named Lu Chao who learned and recited 67,890 digits of pi. That’s an impressive feat of memory. But is it interesting? No, because the digits of pi are not interesting. As far as anyone knows, they’re as good as random. Pi itself is interesting, to be sure. But pi is not its digits; it is merely specified by its digits, in the same way the Eiffel Tower is specified by the longitude and latitude 48.8586° N, 2.2942° E.
