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- Dominic Alvaro,
math teacher

A GRADE 11 Argyle Sec-
ondary School math student
has most people at the
North Vancouver school
scratching their heads.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Dominic Humphrey, 16, has
managed to de something not
even his math teachers are able to
do. He has remembered the first

- 1,013 digits to the mathematical
equation pi, 3.14.

He recently proved this to his
classmates when he punched out
all 1,013 numbers while they
checked his figures using a pi
chart. :

They did't tell Humphrey that
somewhere in the middle of the
1,013 digits was a single wrong
number. He knew that hirnself,
and, after having a quick glance
at all the numbers, found the
wrong digit and replaced it with
the correct one.

“J read it a couple of times,
and it just didn’t feel right. 1
knew there was something
wrong,” Humphrey said after-
wards.

He added that it took him three
hours to remember the first 1,013
numbers of the pi equation.

**1 couldn’t do it. I would say
most people couldn’t do it,”’ said
Humphrey’s math teacher

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SUPER MATH student Deminic Hum

equation pi.

Dominic Alvaro. ‘‘Everyone says,
‘What good is it to know that?’
On the other hand, if there’s a
war, that’s the kind of guy I want
on my side.”’

And Humphrey himself is not
too sure why he decided to
remember the mathematical equa-
tion’s first 1,013 numbers.

“‘My dad thinks it’s a waste of
time, and my mother is not that
interested in it,’’ said Humphrey.
“Pm = more interested in com-
puters, and | will go into com-
puters when I go to university.”’

Alvaro said Humphrey is one of
the top math students in the
school and is very quick at the
subject.

But mathematics is not the only
area in which Humphrey has ex-
celled. He is also one of the best
chess players in B.C. and at one
time was ranked second in B.C.
by the Canadian Federation of.
Chess.

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