"The greatest number of places to which pi has been memorized is 930 by Nigel Hodges, 14, of Bodmin Grammar School, Cornwall, England in May, 1973." --with sympathy to Gosper. "On the Terman index for intelligence quotients, 150 represents genius level. The indices are sometimes held to be immeasurable above a level of 200, but a figure of 210 has been attributed to Kim Ung-Yong of Seoul, Korea (born March 7, 1963). He composed poetry and spoke four languages (Korean, English, German, and Japanese), and performed integral calculus at the age of 4 years 8 months on Tokyo television." "Baron Herbert B. De Grote of Mexico City has been attested to have extracted the 19th roots of a 133 digit number by an algorithm of his own invention by purely mental application in a test in Mexico City on May 15, 1973. His answer was 9,126,254." ---Gosper take heed. "The world's most powerful computer is the cdc 7600, first delivered in Jan 1969. It can perform 36 million operations per second and has an access time of 27.5 nanosecond. Commercial deliveries have been scheduled from 1972 at a cost of $9M-$15M. The most capacious storage device is the Ampex Terabit memory which can store 2.88 x 10^12 bits."