Stand-up Maths | Can we calculate 100 digits of π by hand? The William Shanks method. @standupmaths | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 6 minutes ago
For Pi Day 2022 I used the same method as William Shanks and we got π = 3.14159265358... you know, etc etc.
Huge thanks to my patreon supporters who make this video possible. Join in and you can also help enable my ridiculous ideas: patreon.com/standupmaths
And if you are a patreon supporter and would like a piece of my working out: let me know! https://forms.gle/RsuU3dY1ZxG7hKEJ7
Volunteer to help out next time here: https://forms.gle/ypGENWgivE1WMTZZA
See more letters that Shanks sent the Royal Society over on Objectivity:
The Mathematical Spammer - youtube.com/watch?v=7yTXMeiVBCc
And I do some more maths about Shanks's other work on Numberphile.
Reciprocals of Prime Numbers - youtu.be/DmfxIhmGPP4
Thanks to Kepier School for letting us use their hall. kepier.com
The human calculator volunteers were:
Anitej Banerjee
Sam Basak
Thomas Beauchamp
Diana Bergerova
Lauren Billett
Sophie Bleau
Jasmine Burgess
Nick Campen
Hannah Charman
Matt Clough
Kelsey Hewitt
Max Hughes
Ben Hughes
Deanna Judd
Jeremy Kew
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Sophie Maclean
Max McCormick
Hazel Minty
Tilly Pitt
Matt Robinson
Matthew Scroggs
Richard Shackleton
Katie Steckles
Victoria Sun
Milosz Szymanski
Adam Townsend
Clare Wallace
Thanks specifically to the Council of Calculating Pi By Hand who helped me organise the event: James Grime, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Sophie Maclean, Matthew Scroggs, Ben Sparks and Katie Steckles.
CORRECTIONS
- We got pi wrong in the 12 decimal place. Apparently π ≠ 3.14159265358868...
- Viewer einyen1 is a true Shanks: they spotted two other mistakes in the printed version of pi. Thankfully William Shanks had them fixed back in 1873: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1873.0010
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Additional filming by James Hennessy
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
HIDING IN THE CREDITS BY T̸̝̉H̵͘ͅĖ̸̯ ̵͕̆M̶̙̉I̴͈̅GHT̵̠̀Ẏ̷̳ ̵̘͑J̶̼̭͗Ì̸̼̘G̶̳̈́
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com
US book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker
UK book: mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback
For Pi Day 2022 I used the same method as William Shanks and we got π = 3.14159265358... you know, etc etc.
Huge thanks to my patreon supporters who make this video possible. Join in and you can also help enable my ridiculous ideas: patreon.com/standupmaths
And if you are a patreon supporter and would like a piece of my working out: let me know! https://forms.gle/RsuU3dY1ZxG7hKEJ7
Volunteer to help out next time here: https://forms.gle/ypGENWgivE1WMTZZA
See more letters that Shanks sent the Royal Society over on Objectivity:
The Mathematical Spammer - youtube.com/watch?v=7yTXMeiVBCc
And I do some more maths about Shanks's other work on Numberphile.
Reciprocals of Prime Numbers - youtu.be/DmfxIhmGPP4
Thanks to Kepier School for letting us use their hall. kepier.com
The human calculator volunteers were:
Anitej Banerjee
Sam Basak
Thomas Beauchamp
Diana Bergerova
Lauren Billett
Sophie Bleau
Jasmine Burgess
Nick Campen
Hannah Charman
Matt Clough
Kelsey Hewitt
Max Hughes
Ben Hughes
Deanna Judd
Jeremy Kew
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Sophie Maclean
Max McCormick
Hazel Minty
Tilly Pitt
Matt Robinson
Matthew Scroggs
Richard Shackleton
Katie Steckles
Victoria Sun
Milosz Szymanski
Adam Townsend
Clare Wallace
Thanks specifically to the Council of Calculating Pi By Hand who helped me organise the event: James Grime, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Sophie Maclean, Matthew Scroggs, Ben Sparks and Katie Steckles.
CORRECTIONS
- We got pi wrong in the 12 decimal place. Apparently π ≠ 3.14159265358868...
- Viewer einyen1 is a true Shanks: they spotted two other mistakes in the printed version of pi. Thankfully William Shanks had them fixed back in 1873: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1873.0010
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Additional filming by James Hennessy
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
HIDING IN THE CREDITS BY T̸̝̉H̵͘ͅĖ̸̯ ̵͕̆M̶̙̉I̴͈̅GHT̵̠̀Ẏ̷̳ ̵̘͑J̶̼̭͗Ì̸̼̘G̶̳̈́
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com
US book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker
UK book: mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback
