European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine. Rajan Srin Lovasen Mahadevan left takes memory Testa under the supervision of Kansas state University psychology professor Charles Thompson at Usu s Manhattan Campus. Memory Jogger by Nancy Shulins associated Pressi t s Only fitting thai Rajan s Story begin with a number myx1689. The number that started it All myx554 was the License plate on the second car Ihal pulled up 10 the House in Mangalore. India where his patents were having a parly. Myx558 was the third. Some other 5 be Irod might have Sung a song or passed hours d oeuvres to show Oil to the grownups Rajan Srinivasan Mahadevan recited the License plates of All 40 cars in the order in which they d been parked. Thai was the first anyone knew of Rajan Mahadevan s astonishing memory. Twenty seven years later millions know of it and there Are Days when he wishes he had Sung a song or passed hours d oeuvres a memory that can hold fast to 31,811 random numbers yet persistently misplace keys is a curious thing a wondrous oddity that can bring Opportunity Fame perhaps even immortality to its owner. But what of the other things a Man has humor creativity intellect this Damn thing overpowers everything else to a Point Rajan says. As a child he says in Iho fluid accented English he was raised with "1 cd to be so lost in my own thoughts. I would talk 10 myself. Ii was hard to fit in other kids did t know what to make of me Rajan s memory was not unexpected. It s like John Lennon s con Ard music he says. His father a prominent surgeon mows All 2. 56 lines of William Shakespeare s 154 sonnets. I was expected to make it big in life. But my academic career was like the Dia ving of a Mountain Rajan now a student at Kansas state University in Manhattan Kan. Tend engineering and business administration but fell no Affinity for either then someone suggested he put his memory to the test by trying to win a place in the guinness Book of world records. He began studying a computer printout of the first 200.000 places of i Iho ratio Between the diameter and circumference of a Circle. The ultimate test of numerical memory i begins 3.14159. Then continues on indefinitely will no known duplication or pattern. Two Columbia University mathematicians recently calculated i to 480 million Decimal places. On june 12,1980, Rajan flow to Chicago where he stunned the filth International Congress on yoga and meditation by reciting the first 10,000 numbers. On july 5,1981, he stood before a capacity crowd in a Mangalore meeting Hall and rattled off numbers so quickly the judges could barely keep up. For three hours and 49 minutes his memory never faltered. Then finally a lapse he forgot the 31,812th digit of i a 5, never mind. The record �0,013 had toppled on feb. 16,1983,1 saw my name in the Book of records and i relaxed that was the argument stopper. Until then people could say so you have a Good memory so what9 but from 1981 to 1987,1 was the Best in the in 1987, that Honor wont to Hideaki Tomonori of Japan for reciting 40,000 digits in 17 hours 21 minutes. Still memory expert Charles Thompson a Kansas state University psychology professor is convinced Rajan s memory is Superior. The japanese Guy made scoring 30 Genius Wiy top Rote Tavo your Alfo 20-29 Brilliant you Oft � &6 m at a dims i0-l� extraordinary you con Ramo Mboi by Asoka debt on a daily basis in you cart 4-9 average to Leto tit no it cum Tot not y of so ecu fire plumm Nono rum theft. Today1 Dato and Trio Heig of try Soro tour my it 0-3 poor Koch Clou to you at an Toms a Mill Imp mint tuft Days Thoo t ii and fld
