Japanese Man Recites First 100,000 Digits of Pi

How disfunctional must this guy be? And he is a mental health counselor, according to the story!

Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday.

First, how could this guy possibly have been paying attention to his patients/clients? Don't you suppose he must have been rehearsing for hours while his patients poured out their distresses and fears, thinking that this dope was listening intently to the problems? Second, who was there with the printout to confirm his accuracy? How do we know he got it right? How do you compute pi to 100,000 digits? How much computer power does that require?

People do the strangest things...