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: https://www.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 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTXMeiVBCc And I do some more maths about Shanks's other work on Numberphile. Reciprocals of Prime Numbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfxIhmGPP4 Thanks to Kepier School for letting us use their hall. https://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: https://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: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback