Nine-year-old Lucas Mason Yao loves the Vancouver Canucks, his pet bunny Chomp and pi, the mathematical constant that91裸聊视频檚 celebrated every March 14 around the world.
Yao, from Pitt Meadows, B.C., has memorized the ratio between a circle91裸聊视频檚 circumference and its diameter to 2,030 digits, far beyond the 3.14 that91裸聊视频檚 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 that91裸聊视频檚 topped by a man from India who has memorized it to more than 70,000 digits.
Yao said he has a good memory and has been fascinated by numbers since he was a baby.
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His mother Cindy Liu said Lucas started memorizing pi in 2020 as a way to beat boredom during the pandemic, and he went from 1,000 digits to 2,000 in just a few days last year.
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They watched videos of people doing the pi challenge on YouTube and when her son tried it out, he loved it, she said.
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Yao, who is the fifth-ranked Canadian on the world pi memorization list, said he and his family will be celebrating Pi Day with a pie that has a pi symbol cut into the crust.
Liu said her son91裸聊视频檚 ability to recite pi to more than 2,000 digits isn91裸聊视频檛 his full potential and she believes he91裸聊视频檒l break his own record in the future.
But Liu said she also doesn91裸聊视频檛 want him to spend too much time in the pi challenge.
The boy is also an accomplished pianist, playing at Carnegie Hall in New York when he was five after winning the Crescendo International Music Competition.
Liu said her son has excelled at numbers ever since he was a baby.
He started showing curiosity for numbers when he was only seven days old, and he could count to 100 at two, she said.
