Rajveer Meena — سيرة طفل معجزة

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The record attempt

The date was chosen for its own reasons: 21 March 2015, in the week of Pi Day, at VIT University in Vellore in Tamil Nadu. Meena was blindfolded throughout, which removes the most obvious objection to a recitation record and makes the attempt purely a test of retrieval.

Guinness World Records lists the result under the category "most decimal places of Pi memorised", with 70,000 places to his name. Pi is irrational: its decimal expansion never terminates and never settles into a repeating pattern, so there is no structure to lean on. Each digit has to be stored and produced in order, and a single error ends the attempt.

The student who missed IIT

Meena is from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. The Times of India told his story in February 2016 under a headline that captures the arc better than any summary: he failed to crack the IIT entrance examination, and now helps to shape the country's best minds.

That framing matters in India, where the Joint Entrance Examination is a national filter with a rejection rate that produces hundreds of thousands of disappointed candidates a year. Meena's record was set at the university where he ended up, not at the one he had aimed for, and the achievement travelled further than an IIT admission letter would have.

A second kind of memory feat

Pi is not his only record. He also holds a Limca record for recalling 1,125 random items, a discipline that tests a different skill: not one long sequence rehearsed over years, but a large body of unrelated material committed quickly.

DNA India returned to him in March 2017 in a feature built around pi, and the same month Mic placed him among the small group of people who hold or claim records for memorising the constant. Competitive memorisation attracts sceptics for good reason, and blindfolded, invigilated attempts with an official adjudicator are how the discipline answers them.

Where Rajveer Meena is now

The sources used here run to 2017. They place him at VIT, aged 28 in March 2017, which is the basis for the birth year of about 1989 given on this page; no source used states his date of birth.

What he has done since is not documented in this record. Whether he has attempted a longer recitation, where he works, and whether anyone has formally challenged the 70,000-digit mark are all open questions rather than facts this page will supply.

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Why pi records are contested

Memorising pi sits at an awkward junction between sport and spectacle. The official record requires an adjudicated attempt with independent verification, which is slow, expensive and rare. Claims made outside that process circulate widely and cannot be checked, which is why the published numbers and the largest claimed numbers have often differed.

That is precisely why the Vellore attempt carries weight. It was blindfolded, it was witnessed, and it was recognised by the body that keeps the list. In a field crowded with assertions, Meena's 70,000 digits are on the record.

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Rajveer Meena — every milestone on this page, placed by age.

1989

ميلاده، وفقاً لعمر 28 عاماً المذكورميلاده، وفقاً لعمر 28 عاماً المذكور في تقرير شهر مارس 2017

2015

يسرد 70,000 خانة عشرية لباي معصوب العينينيسرد 70,000 خانة عشرية لباي معصوب العينين في جامعة فيت، فيلور، في 21 مارس

2016

صحيفة تايمز أوف إنديا ترسم ملامح قصته كطالبصحيفة تايمز أوف إنديا ترسم ملامح قصته كطالب لم يلتحق بـ IIT ويساعد الآن في تشكيل أفضل العقول

2017

دي إن إيه إنديا وميك يعيدان زيارة الرقم القياسيدي إن إيه إنديا وميك يعيدان زيارة الرقم القياسي حول وقت يوم باي

مقارنة تاريخية

الشخص	الدولة	الإنجاز	العمر / البيان
Rajveer Meena	الهند	سرد 70,000 خانة عشرية لباي معصوب العينين	العمر 0
Peter Imafidon	المملكة المتحدة	أُفيد في عام 2008 بأنه، مع أخته التوأم باولا، أصغر من اجتاز...	العمر 7
Andrej Živanović	صربيا	ألقاب بطولة العالم للعمليات الحسابية الذهنية للناشئين	العمر 11
Faith Odunsi	نيجيريا	الفوز بالبطولة العالمية المفتوحة للرياضيات في سن 15	العمر 15
Freddis Reyes Hernández	كوبا	الفوز بمسابقة الضرب وكأس ميموراد في عام 2012 للعمليات الذهنية...	العمر 27

What is documented — and what is not

✓ Documented

He recited 70,000 decimal places of pi blindfolded at VIT University, Vellore, on 21 March 2015
Guinness World Records recognised the attempt as the most decimal places of pi memorised
He is from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan
He also holds a Limca record for recalling 1,125 random items

? Unverified, disputed or wrong

His date of birth is not published in these sources
The duration of the 2015 attempt is not stated in the sources used
What he has done since 2017 is not documented here
Whether the record has since been challenged is not established in this record

Questions people ask about Rajveer Meena

How many digits of pi did Rajveer Meena recite?

Seventy thousand decimal places, blindfolded, at VIT University in Vellore on 21 March 2015.

How old is Rajveer Meena?

A March 2017 report gave his age as 28, which places his birth year at about 1989. No source used here gives a date of birth.

Does Rajveer Meena still hold the pi record?

Guinness World Records recognised his 70,000 places as the most decimal places of pi memorised. The sources used here do not record a later verified challenge.