Did Feynman ever say that? The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers only confirms that there are six nines at the Feynman point, not that Feynman recognized them. The only references to Feynman are the Pi – Unleashed book by Arndt and Haenel (2001), which gives no reference to a text or lecture by Feynman, and the Mathworld link, which also does not confirm Feynman’s involvement in this observation. Lending the weight of Feynman’s name to this observation blatantly aggrandized the notion of this piece, raising it to notability which it would not have without that label. 
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