Record-Breaking Penang Teen Can Recite First 300 Digits of Pi

By Danial Martinus  •  20 Apr 2026 in News

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It’s not every day you come across someone who can recite more than just the first six digits of pi (π), which are 3.14159 in case you were wondering. But for 14-year-old Penang student K Poonyamitra, all it took was a little bit of practice, allowing her to recite a whopping 300 digits from memory.

If your high school math isn’t too rusty, you’ll know that pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. You might also know that pi has never-ending decimal places, though mathematicians say its true value has over 300 trillion digits with no end or repeating patterns.

Two months of practice

For Poonyamitra, a Form 2 student at St George’s Girls School, all it took was daily practice over a period of two months, memorising at least 10 digits each day.

“It was difficult at first, but once I got into the rhythm, it became easier to remember the numbers,” she says. The student set the record on 9 February, receiving a computer and certificate from the Malaysia Book of Records to celebrate the achievement.

According to her mother, S Thilagam, Poonyamitra (unsurprisingly) has other awards under her belt, including the Memory Athlete award in Kids Got Talent Malaysia last year.

“She also auditioned online for Season 21 of America’s Got Talent in January and emerged runner-up in an ASEAN world records event last year,” she says.

In case you’re wondering what the first 300 digits of pi are, here they are:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749

4459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230

66470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211

0555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612847564823378

6783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260

2491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643

6789259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943305727

03657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495

6735188575272489122793818301194912983367336244065664308602

13949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846

74818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342757789609173

63717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354

201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996051870721134

9999998372978049951059731732816096318595024459455

This writer doubts he can memorise even the first quarter of the first line.

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