Haraguchi = π Spigot

Haraguchi 

spigot algorithm pumps out digits one at a time and does not reuse the digits after they are computed.  In 1995 Stanley Rabinowitz and Stan Wagon produced a remarkable spigot algorithm for generating decimal digits of π (paper in pdf).  Today the remarkable Akira Haraguchi finished reciting 100,000 digits of π from memory – a world record.

Pi Spigot

You can use the Pi-Search Page to find the location of the digits of π within π.  For example, The string 3 occurs at position 9 counting from the first digit after the decimal point.  It looks like the following plotted on a log chart.

Pi Position

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