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Youngest mother ever. Impressive!

Posted Mon, 09/03/2009 - 22:50 by nuno

Today some fellows showed me an incredible Wikipedia entry. Yes, weird world. Lina Medina, a Peruvian child, is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history as well. She gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days, which means at four she already got pregnant!

Apparently, "her menarche had occurred at 8 months of age (or 2 1/2 according to a different article), and that she had had prominent breast development by the age of 4. By age 5 her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation" (in Wikipedia). The curiousest thing is that nobody knows who is the dad of that children. Her father is the main suspect but he never condemned due to the lack of evidences.

Anyway, by curiosity I took a look at the list of youngest birth mothers and realised the fact is that the three first children on the list are all from Peru. Worst part: they were raped...

Still should I say, impressive!

3.14159265

Posted Mon, 11/08/2008 - 23:38 by nuno

Can human memory be as powerful as a computer? I don't think so... Sure it is more complex and amazing than your hard drive. Maybe even more abstract... Human made the machine to help them to achieve hard tasks but God (or god, as you believe) made human to impress other humans!

Indeed, it is amazing that a `thing' called PI WORLD RANKING LIST ever exists. Today I was shocked when I looked at those numbers:
http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/index.html

Amazing, uh? The rules? a maximum pause of 15 seconds between each digit... No pee, no food, no sleep, nothing. Just the human and its sickness for omniscience (or just fun...?) !
Anyway, there are other rankings like e constant or SQRT(2).

Let's take a look at the #1 of this hilarious ranking: 67890 digits recited in about 24 hours and 4 minutes to without a mistake..! More: it took to the Chinese Chao Lu over one year to learn them all. I have no intentions to beat the record but there are the 67891 first digits of pi:

[Update:] when I pushed the submit button, nothing appeared on this post because of the length of the string, so I let a plain text file with those digits on attachment! ;)

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