Daniel Tammet suffered epileptic seizures as a young child which is believed to have created his condition. Tammet sees numbers as shapes and colors. In his mind, he says, each positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, color, texture and feel. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. The number 6 apparently has no distinct image yet what he describes as an almost small nothingness, opposite to the number 9 which he calls large, towering, and quite intimidating. Tammet can do calculations without conscious effort. This includes cube roots to hundreds of decimal places and he holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes. He is also a Polyglot and is fluent in eleven languages. He speaks English, Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He learned Icelandic in a week for a TV documentary.