What Is Pi? | Don McMillan

[@warren52nz]

I have a degree in physics and I memorised Pi to 220 decimal places just for fun. It didn't turn out to be the Babe Magnet I expected.... 🤔

[@jerryhorton5708]

Hahaha! That’s an awesome answer that I can identify with…

[@AR9ify]

😂

[@johngregor294]

I just learned how to call out random numbers after 3.14. Nobody could tell I was bluffing.

[@warren52nz]

@@johngregor294 I could. 🤗

[@wayneyadams]

@@warren52nz Except you're not a Babe so why would we care. LOL

[@marcomattano3705]

You ask an accountant "What is Pi?". He'll look around to check if someone's listening and answer "Sales people will tell you it's 2.6 but ... how much do you want it to be?"

[@graywind3277]

"Let's buy a company with cake technology, is one available?" Can't help but imagine Cave Johnson saying this.

[@philipackerley5775]

My fave geeky comedian by a mile. Maybe just maybe its because I am a mathemetician grad and IT tecky. Aged 61.

[@DoubleDoubleWithOnions]

Oh yeah, well he's my favorite comedian by a parsec. Ha, got you beat.

[@originalskyname125]

He's not a geek, he's a nerd lol

[@genaricTallGuy]

I’m an engineer and this is accurate as hell

[@zuludeltanovember]

sho cares

[@Tinker1950]

And you're full of shit. It's an exclusively American affectation.

[@grimftl]

This guy is awesome. As a STEM teacher it is *really* hard to inject humor into STEM classes. I am a bit surprised as he didn't inject 'e' into the salesman joke.

[@DennisKovacich]

Maybe because e = 2.718281828459045, a completely different mathematical constant.

[@MarkMcDaniel]

​@DennisKovacich -- Right, he could've said, "I could get you pi at the cost of e."

[@louisrobitaille5810]

@@DennisKovacich You missed the joke in the video because he said an even lower number: 2.6. Btw, this is a common engineering joke: π = e. If you round up e it's 3, if you round down π it's also 3.

[@abfonsec]

@@MarkMcDaniel Good stuff but I suspect that this audience most likely would miss the joke. I believe that Pi is way more familiar to people than e.

[@maaikevreugdemaker9210]

And pi + e = pie

[@dcseward02474]

He isn't just geeky humor. He can touch upon all aspects of the corporate world. That's the genius.

[@mistertwister2000]

“Can we get a task force on the Pi(e) situation?” And that’s living in my memory forever now

[@canemcave]

same as with government, of course government would make it 4 by applying a value added tax to it, and raise it to 5 for additional under the table fiddling

[@San-lh8us]

as an engineer, i confirm he's absolutely right about us

[@DeLambada]

You are talking bachelor level. A Masters degree engineer would have answered 3.2!

[@San-lh8us]

@@DeLambada No, a Masters degree engineer would be even safer and use 5

[@PaiSAMSEN]

Same here. To me, pi = e = 3.

[@Raging.Geekazoid]

Physics professor: _"Pi squared among friends is ten."_ 😋

[@stevetomassetti4420]

Dilbert does standup. Love it!

[@gregb6469]

Back when I was in junior high we moved and I went to a new school, and was mistakenly put in an algebra class for which I was not ready [in my previous school we had not gotten that far in the textbook, so I had never heard of algebra, but since I had been getting A's and B's in the class the registrar at the new school thought I knew more than I actually did], and it was the first class of the day, so I was still half asleep one morning when the teacher asked, 'What is the opposite of pi?' and I, in all sincerity and ignorance, answered, 'Cake.' I didn't understand why the rest of the class laughed.

[@heavnxbound]

That’s actually hilarious though.

[@mikejankowski6321]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[@wisteria3032]

so what _is_ the opposite of pi? -pi? or 1/pi?

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@wisteria3032 Well, to be serious about the matter, it would be -pi. When they meet, they would annihilate each other leaving zero and a pile of sugar.

[@wisteria3032]

@@mikejankowski6321 how would you call 1/pi in English? in my language it's something like "invert" but that sounds horrible in english 😓

[@JeffRyman69]

I'm an engineer. The simple ratio of 22/7 is off from pi by only 0.04% which is good enough for most practical purposes. In my first job I was writing software that modeled the organs of the human body using cylinders, ellipsoids, etc. some of which were cut by various planes so that we could estimate organ dose from gamma-ray radiation that hit the organs, using Monte Carlo simulation. For that purpose, we used 3.141592653589793, which is the maximum number of significant figures one could use on and IBM/360 mainframe computer back in the 1970s.

[@DennisKovacich]

An equally easy-to-remember fraction is 355/113, and it’s only off by 0.000008%. If you find it difficult to remember, just think of writing it in old-fashioned long division: 113)355. It’s two each of the first three odd numbers, split in the middle by the division sign.

[@JeffRyman69]

@@DennisKovacich You are correct. I had recently read about this but had forgotten. Thank you for pointing this out.

[@goutamroy4324]

​@@DennisKovacich Excellent way to remember the fraction. Good man.

[@DennisKovacich]

@@goutamroy4324and @Jeff Ryman, you’re both welcome. I learned that from my Fortran teacher in 1979, and had to work out what it was several times in later years before I figured out that mnemonic. I also wrote a program in AppleSoft BASIC to look for a closer ratio, but all it found was higher multiples of the same two numbers.

[@rolandlastname5532]

​@@DennisKovacichjust as easy as remembering a strong password

[@Palmtop_User]

Ask a programmer and theyll say "whatever the computer says when its not yelling at me"

[@NathanSimonGottemer]

Or they’ll just tell you to include math.h

[@wayneyadams]

It takes a comedic genius to make pi funny. He makes me laugh so hard my sides hurt.

[@yevgeny79]

KZbin, you have outdone yourself here. Thanks for putting this in my feed.

[@dogfacedponysoldier87]

Don is great. So hilarious

[@hd-xc2lz]

My new favorite standup.

[@piperg6179]

He’s right as far as he goes, pi has different values, of course. BUT he doesn’t even touch on its variability. Sure it’s 3.14 or 22/7 during the day. But at night it usually cycles to higher numbers and occasionally to lower. Some nights when i get up to tinkle, pi is around 4.5 and a few months ago i found it was 6.3 at 3:15 am. It seems correlated with the tides in Brisbane Australia of all places. Maybe it has something to do with synchronous kangaroo hopping?

[@rainerausdemspring3584]

When you ask a mathematician he will probably cite Landaus's famous definition: pi/2 is the smallest positive root of the cosine function.

[@mehranmhz]

Sales Man Part really got me

[@brettbretterson6062]

Waitress: how's your pie? Me: irrational.

[@Steve101747]

Ask an accountant what's pi he'll answer, "What do you want it to be?"

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I bought a Pi Chart from this man. It was apple.

[@royksk]

Apple, I bet they charged for updates

[@MichaelSHartman]

Apple pi, apple pie.

[@ericgjovaag7958]

This needed to be 33 seconds longer just to make it REALLY appropriate…

[@System.Error.]

Yeah, but physicists are also very well known for their simplifying ability. For example, if a farmer comes to a physicist to figure out why their cow has a problem, the physicist will immediately assume that the cow is in vacuum and is spherical. Joking aside, and this is for real, physicists sometimes use pi squared as the same value of earth's gravitational acceleration.

[@900milesfromnormal3]

I work in a non-clinical role at a hospital. This happened on night shift: Engineer 1: (hands me a clipboard) Sign the top line. Me: What am I signing? Engineer 1: The top line.

[@BruceWayne-cb2ys]

Great, as always

[@starpawsy]

"What is PI? Baby dont hurt me, dont hurt me, no more" LOL

[@kevinmccroan5743]

This is perfect

[@Ryarios]

I can verify this is 100% accurate…😁 Well, except for the CEO portion. He’ll shunt the question over to his assistant to figure out where his desert is.

[@Xogroroth666]

What do we have today, let's see: OOOH, love this one: What Is π? Depends on a few things: Your origin (Some like more traditional to their heritage thingies)/taste (Ingredients Usage), your location (Ingredient Availablity), the day (Whether your smart and plan this vs the "Is there a shop open tactics.), The amount of people that come over OR How hungry you are, the oven (some cannot take larger meals when you're "very hungry", I think of for instance a R9D-CL kiln (for the Tech-oriented cooks) vs a Efco 850°C for the slightly more hungry but equally geeky/nerdy cooks), the humidity (whether you're cooking in the kitchen or underwater (not all ingredients or applications do similarly well under water)(Note, this is for hobbyist diver-cooks.), and an exponential plethora of other unknown variables which points to Pyramidic-Square-Spheroids in the 0K vacuum of the Time-Space-Continuum of a random clock ... .

[@seanwilkinson7431]

Actually, a customer would try to haggle pi down to e, which would frustrate the salesman so much that he would stand firm at g until the customer got the manager involved and wound up paying the square root of 2. Customer service is a totally irrational industry.

[@ffggddss]

Well, yeah, mostly, but if you *_really_* ask a mathematician, you never know what answer you'll get. It might be something more like, "It's four times the infinite alternating odd harmonic series." Or, "twice the arcsine of one." Or, "the square of the gamma function of one-half." Fred

[@gw7579]

A lawyer would say, "What do you want it to be?"

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

Given Don's technical background he has ample material to fit the comedy template he's developed. Formulaic but what would you expect.

[@its-me-here]

Some of that was touching the truth

[@pokor5791]

Go Don, I love American Pi.

[@arcienarchives1957]

As a salesman that really struck me! XD

[@ahmedbichmou8073]

Finally I found my type of comedy lol

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

A software engineer will say, .py is for python

[@centanaire7507]

The sells pitch I totally didn't expect. 😂🤣

[@mrz80]

Pi is whatever the compiler writer decided it was :D

[@mikedl1105]

I would use 4 to be safe

[@boscat666]

hahaha he is funny man !!!!!!!!

[@davidbrattain1446]

Weird thing is, the diameter of a circle never truly closes. I mean the beginning and the ending never meet! Wild huh?

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

you mean start and end point not being included?

[@q09876543]

Well, there's apple pie, pumpkin pie peach pie, bumble berry pie, strawberry pie, all sorts of pie.

[@ryandavis7593]

A mechanic will ask, “do you want it to work or do you want it cool sounding?”

[@amousawie]

As an engineer, you really need to know exactly how much pi is. Otherwise, your output charge will burn the circuit.

[@kasperdeceulaer6828]

The engineer's motto is pi = e = sqrt(g)

[@dielaughing73]

=3

[@EchoTangoSuitcase]

3.14159265358979 That's as far as I go. I memorized that once, a long time ago. Can't say I remember why...

[@DennisKovacich]

My iPhone’s calculator only goes one digit farther: 3.141592653589793

[@EchoTangoSuitcase]

@@DennisKovacich - If I had known 50 years ago that iPhones were going to be a thing, I'd have memorized 2 more digits.

[@niklashansen5432]

@@EchoTangoSuitcase Rookie mistake.

[@fliegenscheise4515]

the funniest thing about this, is that I'm watching this in a t-shirt with the first 3940 digits of pi

[@jerrytaliercio9087]

I just had some pi? Apple crumb

[@Mancozeb100]

Was it a Square pi or a round one … ☝️

[@lindafournier5244]

Thought you might like this- listen to the end. I hope all is well😎

[@rc8929]

As a chemist, 3.14 is good enough. No need for more digits, I don’t think they are significant.

[@zanti4132]

A mathematician who says pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter would strike me as a bit boring. I would say pi is the square root of six times the sum of the reciprocals of the squares of the positive integers, but maybe that would just label me as a wise-ass.

[@erikziak1249]

3,1415927 Never needed any more precision, usd this value and always came up with the correct result. Correct result of the equation, not to the problem at hand.

[@earthknight60]

How do you tell the difference between a plumber and a physicist? Ask them to pronounce 'unionize'.

[@musikSkool]

Now I'm wondering what pi is at cost.

[@Kapritchosa]

Don McMillan, I want to meet you, you are funny as hell, up to this day. (21st century add on: I am married with 4 kids, but I am just like you.)

[@josephpadula2283]

Ask a CPA? As long as you keep it between 3 and 3.5 the IRS won’t audit you!

[@stratonikisporcia8630]

What is π ? Baby don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more...

[@theparadoxicaltouristtrave9320]

You missed. Engineer says 3. Politicians 4.

[@TaufiqulHuque]

If you want to keep a computer busy, tell it to calculate the value of pi to the last decimal place.

[@somebodyelse6673]

The last decimal of Pi is .1, when they say that's the first decimal tell them you started from the other end.

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

@@somebodyelse6673 wow

[@kenwelch198]

Who says comedy can't be smart

[@chefcc90]

I hate to confirm, but engineers would round to 4 if asked...

[@angusmackaskill3035]

I like pie, BTW you spelt it wrong

[@johnguilfoyle3073]

Pi is interesting because it is such an important constant in math, science, and engineering without being one of the Magic Numbers that we think of in many other areas of philosophy or theology. In Christianity, there is a Trinity, the three in one, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Even in Science, we had a Trinity of Trinities, Time, Space, and Matter. Time has Past, Present, and Future. Space has the X, Y, and Z axes. Matter had Solid, Liquid, or Gas. It is comforting to think of concepts in Threes or Sevens, but Science and Nature have much more complexity hidden beneath the mysteries of creation.

[@howardwhitney9314]

Pi is not square. Pi is round. Cake r squared.

[@martinkuliza]

0:56 or... if you watched Rob and Deane on the curiosity show as a kid kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5jMm3yJq514pMU they would say Pi is 3 and a bit in some shows 3...... and a Smidge True story

[@jrjubach]

What is Pi? Depends on how many significant figures you want.

[@wsw70]

A physicist will say that pi is 3 (5 on a good day), pi^2 is 10, the same as g Physics is all about estimating how bad what you invented is

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

What would have been real funny is if he said 2.8 and 1.4.

[@matheuscerqueira7952]

Why?

[@infpail7232]

@@matheuscerqueira7952 the world will never know :(

[@matheuscerqueira7952]

@@infpail7232 2.8 i understand, 1.4 is beyond me

[@franklyanogre00000]

What is pi? π = log e^i (-1)

[@Locklear93]

...I'm sitting here wondering what type of person I am for answering 22/7.

[@bultvidxxxix9973]

The better engineer.

[@jillyapple1]

I prefer Tau, lol

[@pieterhilt6331]

If ask programeur he see raspberry pi

[@jong3055]

Ask an accountant what Pi is and they’ll reply..’what do you want it to be?’

[@NathanSimonGottemer]

If you ask a computer scientist and they will tell you to use std::arcsin(1)*2

[@RFC3514]

And yet none of them got it right. It's a Greek letter.

[@michaelwarren2391]

And the CPA says, "What do you want it to be?"

[@brucewelty7684]

It AIN'T pie it is PEE