That's 3 14 19, which as we all know are the first six digits of pi.

Now this is our 9th annual Pi Day video, I understand by now there's some of y'all

who know a few digits of pi, or maybe you're the one who gets tasked with checking against

a printed copy while that kid in math class tries to break the school record during the

annual pi day competition, do all schools have that or is it just me?

Anyway you have the printed copy and they're like 31415926535979… and you'll be like

wait, did they get that 8? but you don't have time to think about it because they're

all like 323846264338… and you're like well that all sounded right, unless they did

miss that 8 earlier in which case all of that was wrong because once you skip a digit everything's

shifted, the 9 should be the 8 and the 7 should be the 9 and the 9 should be the 7 and there's

cascading failure, oh except when there's two 3s in a row one of them is right just

by chance, i mean the shifted version will be right whenever there's two in a row or

it's right twice in a row when you come across three numbers in a row, and at the

Feynman point which is 6 9s in a row then 5 of them will be right in a row, but point

is once you skip a digit then what you're reciting might sound like pi but it might

as well be random digits.

Then again, the word mispelling is still the word misspelling even if we misspell it and

miss the second s, it's not like “oh no, you missed the s, now the p is wrong and the

e and you got one L correct by chance but on the whole it's a loss.

We know what word it is, it still means what it means and we understand it even when it's

technically wrong, and maybe Pi is still Pi no matter what mistakes a Pi reciter might

make.

So that's why Pi Day 2019 has the first six digits of Pi and is thus even more pi-like

than 3/14/15 a few years back which only has the first 5 digits.

So there's a typo, so what, let's not nitpick.

We can all empathize with skipping a digit of pi here or there, we've all done it,

right?

And if you don't know many digits of pi may I suggest that you use digit skipping

to your advantage and skip right to the Feynman point like this: 3141 999 999, and there you

go, you know ten whole digits of pi, just not all in a row.

In fact, if you want to learn to recite a thousand digits of pi real quick, you can

just skip everything that's not 9s.

Check the rules of your local pi day competition, as long as you're reciting actual real digits

of pi maybe it doesn't matter what order they're in or if you get them all.

Now you might think you could use this trick to recite infinite selected digits of pi,

9s forever, but no one has found a proof that that's true.

After a certain point you might run out of 9s, or maybe not, no one knows.

Yet.

Anyway 31419, pi of the year, skips the 5, so if you do know a lot of digits of pi this

year's pi day challenge is to recite pi but skip all the 5s.

It's a little harder than it sounds, but it'll help you get to the end faster because

now Pi is 10% shorter.

Or so we conjecture.

And if you don't know a lot of digits then your challenge is to recite pi but skipping

to all the 9s and keep repeating 9 until the word loses all meaning and you have an epiphany

that words are just sounds made out of our vibrating meat flaps and it is utterly impossible

magic that they ever manage to mean anything.

Good times.

Ok happy Pi Day, go eat half a pie, good luck with your life and stuff!