Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Happy Pi Day 2025 everyone!
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CORRECTIONS
- At 22:27 I say the Bonn ratio was 1-to-97 but they double checked for me and it was actually 1-to-93, which makes the same point.
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Extra material by Grant Sanderson
Extra something from Steve Mould
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Happy Pi Day 2025 everyone!
Check out Grant's new 3blue1brown video: youtu.be/6dTyOl1fmDo?si=k0az9B4pEOnRXbIh
Oh look, it's Steve's excellent channel: youtube.com/stevemould
Sign up for future pi-by-hand videos: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6
Massive thanks to Hugh Hunt and everyone in the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, particularly the legends in the workshop. eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/hemh1
Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters. They keep my masses bouncing back and forth. patreon.com/standupmaths
CORRECTIONS
- At 22:27 I say the Bonn ratio was 1-to-97 but they double checked for me and it was actually 1-to-93, which makes the same point.
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Extra material by Grant Sanderson
Extra something from Steve Mould
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician





![2019 facts in 2 mins 19 seconds
Huge thanks to Inder Taneja for crunching the numbers. I asked for a few number facts: they produced a whole paper.
Inders work on their site: https://inderjtaneja.com/2018/12/31/2019-in-numbers/
The full PDF: https://zenodo.org/record/2529103
Here are text version you can copy of all the facts in the video:
2019 =
(2×22+2/2)^2 −2−2−2
1+(1+1)^11 − (11−1)×(1+1+1)
9+(9999−9) / 9+9×99+9
(aaaaa−a)×(a+a)−a×aa / a×aa
1+2×34+5×6×(7×8+9)
98+7+65+43^2×1
−1×(2+3)+√[4^(5+6)]−7−8−9
√9+8−7+65×(4+3^(2+1))
(1+2)×(3!!−4!−5+6−7−8−9)
9+(8+7)×(6!/5−4−3−2−1)
0^3 + 1^8 + 2^7 − 3^9 + 4^6 + 5^4 + 6^2 + 7^5 + 8^1 + 9^0
1^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 5^4 + 6^4
√[1155^2 + 1656^2]
CORRECTIONS
- Ive just noticed the descending square-root sequence still uses concatenation. Sorry. If you find a better version give me a shout.
- Torin Storkey was the first to suggest the solution for zero is: 0! + 0! + 0! + 0! + 0! + 0! + … + 0! = 2019
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
For the first time: Im using the frame from the video youtube automatically picked as the default thumbnail. I cant do better than that.
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