Pi | Don McMillan Comedy

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What is Pi to you?
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What do you get when you cross an Engineer with a stand-up comedian? You get Don McMillan. This former chip designer has been doing his one-of-a-kind, PowerPoint-Driven comedy show for audiences for over 20 years. In his show packed with graphs & charts, Don will show you the funny side of your world that has been sitting right in front of you - you are just too busy working to notice. Don graduated from Stanford University with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. He then went to work at AT&T Bell Labs where he was part of the team that designed the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor. He then moved to Silicon Valley where he helped launch the start-up company, VLSI Technology. Then after 15 years in the tech world, Don quit his job to become a stand-up comedian. That year he won $100,000 as the Comedy Grand Champion on “Star Search”. Don’s been seen on “The Tonight Show”, “HBO”, and the “Comedy Central”. These days, Don spends most of his time writing and performing customized corporate comedy shows for companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Ford Motors, and Exxon/Mobil. Don has performed more than 800 corporate shows in the last 20 years and he was named the #1 Corporate Comedian by the CBS Business Network.

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@ProjectNumbers 9 ай бұрын

Wishing this video was about 14 seconds longer

@Krishan.Bansal 9 ай бұрын

Oh man.. That would have been so apt. 😂

@heinoussage 9 ай бұрын

Well he is an engineer

@ProjectNumbers 9 ай бұрын

@@heinoussage Very good

@ghammer9773 9 ай бұрын

Came here to make sure this comment existed

@w01dnick 9 ай бұрын

But pi minutes wouldn't be 3:14.15, but 3:08.5

@bveebs 8 ай бұрын

As an engineer, the fact about pi being “ehh 3”, but “round up to 4 to be safe” is way too freakin true!!!!!

@aziris9145 7 ай бұрын

As a structural engineer, I relate to it😂

@DIDisguise77 6 ай бұрын

Yes.

@meks039 4 ай бұрын

forget the 22/7 approximation i prefer 21/7

@papahemmy8587 3 ай бұрын

When in doubt, increase factor of safety!

@nikhilgarg9618 3 ай бұрын

But its closer to 3 how is it rounded off to 4?

@SupersonicFX 9 ай бұрын

You forgot to add the accountant bit. An accountant would say: “…how much do you want it to be? I will make it happen” LOL

@user-hg2ih8hf7x 6 күн бұрын

Not if it's an honest accountant. My mum was an accountant and they sadly get such a bad rep. She help many companies to get the fiances in order.

@yurenchu 19 сағат бұрын

@@user-hg2ih8hf7x "fiances"? I thought that was Human Resources, they are the match-makers... ;-)

@keithviolette5870 9 ай бұрын

Why wasn't this 15 seconds longer? Oh, right, he's an engineer, it's about 3 minutes long.

@jackmandu 9 ай бұрын

15? You must be a mathematician.

@keithviolette5870 9 ай бұрын

@@jackmandu Ha! I'm actually a lead mechanical engineer... 3 is close enough.

@jackmandu 9 ай бұрын

@@keithviolette5870 - I was in electrical engineering in college for a bit, but it wasn’t for me. That said, the number between 1 and 10 that I would’ve picked is e, which I guess is also close enough to 3 for an engineer. 😂

@VenerableBede2510 8 ай бұрын

Perfect comment.

@skaruts 8 ай бұрын

2.59 is just about 2.6. Clearly a sales person decided the length of the video.

@jamesbennett5421 9 ай бұрын

“Do you mean an integer?” And only 1 in 5 in the audience laughs. That woosh is worth a chuckle right there.

@TheLebpl 3 ай бұрын

And when he said the camera focused on an Asian :)

@alvinmairov786 2 ай бұрын

Those are programmers

@Mathhead2000 2 ай бұрын

Inclusive?

@JohnDoe-ti2np Ай бұрын

There's probably someone in the audience who didn't laugh because that's exactly what they were thinking themselves!

@erniemiller1953 9 ай бұрын

If you ask a farmer, "What is pie?" he'll tell you, "What you just stepped in."

@Dborgman 9 ай бұрын

Hello Mr.Miller That Farmer is more into mathematics than you realize , besides that Farmer feeds you.🙂

@jeffclark5268 3 ай бұрын

The question was “what is pie?” which has nothing to do with math, or, ironically, this video.

@astal3204 Ай бұрын

@@Dborgman it's a joke.

@johnshaw6702 Ай бұрын

There was a politician giving a speech at a reservation thought it went great, because his audience kept shouting 'Ohya'. Then they took him on a short tour. When they were approaching a barn, they said be careful, don't step in the 'Ohya'.

@Appolyon 9 ай бұрын

Ask an accountant. They will shut doors and windows and then whispering ask: "What do you want it to be? "

@danielscott5330 5 ай бұрын

My calc professor actually said he did that to his daughter with picking two numbers. He said "pi and e", she yelled "THOSE AREN'T REAL NUMBERS!", to which he said "o o o oh yes they are." ending his story saying Things that happen when your dad's a mathematician.

@Andreas-hx6qg 3 ай бұрын

She was mad because that's quite an irrational choice.

@Mathhead2000 2 ай бұрын

I think he was being transcendental.

@allangibson8494 27 күн бұрын

I like the square root of -1…

@Chris-ut6eq 16 күн бұрын

Dad's answer is either a teaching moment or ongoing torture leading to life long therapy.

@yurenchu 19 сағат бұрын

@@Andreas-hx6qg The most rational choice would have been _phi_ -- that's why they call it the _Golden Ratio_ .

@ethanscurlock515 3 ай бұрын

"Pi is about 3. But I would use 4 to be safe." Most underrated joke of the year.

@timdere 9 ай бұрын

Don is so astute at understanding corporate culture! How he tied that to integers is brilliant.

@iAPX432 3 ай бұрын

Everyone knows that Pi are Raspberry flavored computers!

@TheRationalPi 4 ай бұрын

Well, I'm taking this joke for myself. It has my name all over it.

@BuddhaSunn 3 ай бұрын

You enjoy it pal

@Abmotsad 6 ай бұрын

The physics department at USF had an intramural soft ball team. When it came time to submit our jersey numbers, we chose PI, Euler's constant, PHI, root -1, root 2, etc. They told us we couldn't do that, that they had to be "numbers". These ARE numbers, we explained. Long story short, we won on the technicality, but had to make our own numbers as we couldn't find someone to print them.

@ChessJourneyman 4 ай бұрын

Next time you ask for more punch and get punched in the face for being obnoxious, do understand it's a technicality.

@yakunats 2 ай бұрын

I respect your department's commitment to math

@rawchicken3463 2 ай бұрын

I say that's absolutely worth it

@gdragonlord749 2 ай бұрын

Yeah. Screw normal.

@douglasburnside 9 ай бұрын

_"...two pi over three, that's always been a personal favorite."_ Any other nerds here who immediately recognized that as part of the formula for the volume of a hemisphere? (two-thirds pi times radius cubed)

@geoffroi-le-Hook 2 ай бұрын

no, but I had it as 60°

@vladimirarnost8020 Ай бұрын

@@geoffroi-le-Hook 120° (i.e. one third of a full circle which is 360° or 2*pi radians)

@azuarc Ай бұрын

Nope, math teacher here, so my brain immediately went to the unit circle. Quadrant II, 60 degree reference angle. So positive sqrt3/2, negative 1/2, negative sqrt3 for s-c-t. And while it might be the volume of a hemisphere, I would argue that the volume of a hemisphere is just 1/2(4/3*pi*r^3)...which is the same thing, of course.

@yurenchu 18 сағат бұрын

So, which one: left-brain or right-brain? 😊

@gold4963 9 ай бұрын

I love this bit so much. So nerdy, but so hilarious. Such a killer punchline!

@sercatum 9 ай бұрын

A pig without 3.14 is 9.8 .. stolen from Internet :D

@blubb9004 3 ай бұрын

Took me a second, nice one.

@calcubite9298 2 ай бұрын

a pig without pie is gravity?

@smak5023 2 ай бұрын

@@calcubite9298 pig without pi is g

@rawchicken3463 2 ай бұрын

That took me only one moment longer than id have liked

@erikziak1249 9 ай бұрын

If you ask a politician, what Pi is, they will answer: It is the fault of the previous government that we have no pie.

@IsYitzach 9 ай бұрын

Unless you ask a certain Illinois House of Representatives, then they'll tell you "Its 3, we have a proof of squaring the circle that relies on it." They had a bill that was going to be passed into law to make it that way. Fortunately, a mathematician was in the gallery that day and he coached the senators on how to burn that bill to ground and roast the guy who made the "proof."

@atillafiliz6591 4 ай бұрын

That other party will take away your pie.

@bradmiller9993 Ай бұрын

No pie ? It's Trumps fault.....

@edwardrhoads7283 9 ай бұрын

I think the salesperson would tell you the engineers would tell you it is 4 but could get it to you for 3.7. No salesperson will sell it for under its value...

@glennbaer1453 8 ай бұрын

Unless they're bidding on a custom software job. Since the software isn't written yet, no one really knows how long it will take (and therefore how much the work will cost). The salespeople ask the engineers how long it will take. The engineers reply with a pretty decent estimate of the amount of time it takes to write the code, but they don't factor in debugging and paperwork. Sales then reduces engineering's already low estimate to underbid the competition.

@edwardrhoads7283 8 ай бұрын

@@glennbaer1453 This is about selling you pi in reference to one of his jokes.

@boyantrifonov 3 ай бұрын

The 2.6 is price at the factory for the basic version without any add ons Then we have the following costs: • Transport • Insurance • Installation • Technical Drawings • Technical Training • Extended Warranty • Financing And since we have so many orders in the pipeline the 2.6 is for a delivery date in 6 months If you want it sooner it will have to be made by people working overtime and it will cost more.

@johnchestnut5340 3 ай бұрын

They can always get you a better deal on 'e'. 'Pi' is overrated anyway.

@johnshaw6702 Ай бұрын

@@glennbaer1453That's why I always multiplied my estimate by 3. We do tend to think about how long it will take to write, but then you have to test it and fix any mistakes. In the best case scenario it works perfectly the first time. In the worst case you need to reevaluate your initial design. Either way, the initial estimate without multiplying it is wrong.

@marc_zjn 9 ай бұрын

Should have asked someone from greece, they'd tell you, it's a letter 😂

@yurenchu 18 сағат бұрын

The company's contractor in Greece would explain to me over the phone that it's the sixteenth letter, but I wouldn't understand an íota of it because it's all Greek to me! 😅

@fcolecumberri 9 ай бұрын

The fact that he can say casually "Yea, I worked at Bell Labs" it's the nerdiest thing any person will be able to say... and yet no one cheered it, what the flick? that is a non-nerd audience.

@aussiejubes 9 ай бұрын

What is it?

@fcolecumberri 9 ай бұрын

@@aussiejubes what is what? Bell Labs? The entire modern world was invented at Bell Labs.

@aussiejubes 9 ай бұрын

@@fcolecumberri couldn't be more vague if you tried. Nevermind 🙄

@fcolecumberri 9 ай бұрын

@@aussiejubes google it, they created the telephone, the transistors, the unix os, telecumunications, c programming language, c++ programming language, stuff made there were awarded with nobel prizes, turing prizes, etc. I can't be specific with the nerdiest company ever created (nerdiest than openai and google).

@drumset09 9 ай бұрын

@@aussiejubesThe old Bell system, they use to have pretty much every phone line in the USA. AT&T was a part of it, now it's owned by Nokia.

@shantyman161 3 ай бұрын

I'd say the salesperon goes: "What do you need it to be - our engineers can make it happen. And cheaper and quicker than the competition."

@charlesajones77 2 ай бұрын

My father was a quality assurance specialist for Redstone Arsenol in Huntsville, AL (where the Saturn V rockets were made). He once told me that he met an engineer there who swore that Pi was equal to 22/7. Not close to, equal to. Part of the definition of an irrational number is that it can't be expressed as a fraction of two integers. These are the same people who are designing multi million dollar military hardware. My Dad would have loved this guy.

@kmoecub 13 күн бұрын

For engineering purposes it is 22/7. Especially when being on-the-nose can get people killed but fudging-up ensures that everyone lives.

@unofeoconejo 10 күн бұрын

That only gets the first two decimals right, 3.14. Try 355 / 113, which gets the first six decimals right.

@yurenchu 17 сағат бұрын

LOL, reminds me of my youth in primary school. Our math textbook said that 3.14 is an approximation of π , and offered 22/7 as an alternative. So I mistakenly believed that 22/7 is the exact value of π , and I felt better than the other kids because I used 22/7 while they used 3.14 . I didn't know back then that π is irrational, and that 3.14 and 22/7 are about just as equally (in)accurate. 😅

@bikeny Ай бұрын

His tie appears to be the periodic table of elements.

@piccalillipit9211 9 ай бұрын

*AS A RETIRED SALES PERSON* he is 100% correct, the engineers will hate it, but we will do it for 2.6

@edwardrhoads7283 9 ай бұрын

Are you sure you would not have said 4 but do it for 3.6?

@piccalillipit9211 9 ай бұрын

@@edwardrhoads7283 I would have said 4, hoping for 3.6 but been prepared to do it for 2.6 if they give me the order today...

@postalinVT 9 ай бұрын

As a former industrial maintenance mechanic, I can't tell you how accurate his reading of engineers is. I saw FIF ( fit in the field ) instead of a dimension, on drawings more times than I can count.

@ronblack7870 7 ай бұрын

that's because construction can't do anything better than within 1/4 inch

@ajfogertyfan8245 11 күн бұрын

Bend to suit, smash to fit!

@EchoTangoSuitcase 9 ай бұрын

If you ask a construction manager what Pi is, he'll say: "It's a number! Just follow the damn print!"

@rattvisa Ай бұрын

And ask the cafeteria what pi is: ”not here”

@m4rt_ 7 ай бұрын

As a Programmer who sometimes gets a bit obsessed about things, PI is: 3.14159265358979323846264338327050... I have memorized this.

@mdruiter 4 ай бұрын

Except that the last three digits are incorrect.

@DrZaius3141 3 ай бұрын

Got a mistake there. It's ...279502(884197169399...) Only know 75 myself, but it still bugs me seeing something wrong.^^

@JZsBFF Ай бұрын

That's Chudnovsky to me.

@yurenchu 18 сағат бұрын

That's more than just 'a bit' , that's like, what, 128 bits?

@feynthefallen 8 ай бұрын

And then there's B.S. Johnson, who broke the universe, because he insisted that on HIS wheels, pi had to be EXACTLY 3, because everything else would be untidy.

@Ddabig40mac 6 сағат бұрын

Just don't allow him to design your bathroom!

@ProductBasement 4 ай бұрын

Why the heck did youtube not recommend this to me until 3/15??

@christopherzehnder 11 күн бұрын

So true. I’m an engineer and this clip had me laughing at myself.

@geoffroi-le-Hook 2 ай бұрын

The elegant value of π is the square root of 10

@peterkoch3777 Ай бұрын

Close... but 355/113 is much better😂🎉

@itzsoweezee9980 3 күн бұрын

The last one hits so hard, but its so true! 😂

@drumset09 9 ай бұрын

3, I'd use 4 to be safe.

@codename1176 9 ай бұрын

That is actually me 😂

@eddievolkwyn 9 ай бұрын

Engineering answer so true 😂

@Dilshad-gu7je Ай бұрын

Mate! Bloody ripper. Love it! Please keep em coming. If you are ever performing anywhere in Australia please let us know.

@cptjfk 8 ай бұрын

Don, I looooove your stuff! Nerdified comedy... I'd love to do that in Germany, but they don't understand humor anymore.

@khalifah_iskandar 5 күн бұрын

this man took 'smart comedy' - the so called standup comedy to ANOTHER WHOLE NEW LEVEL . comic could bring puppets and stuff to present themself. but man... those PPT he make just .. otherworldly funny

@user-hg2ih8hf7x 6 күн бұрын

12 that's a drunk physicist!😂

@karlforster4907 7 ай бұрын

Had me rolling!

@Sparweb_Projects Ай бұрын

Typical manager: started to commit resources before understanding the scope of the problem. When the team realizes that pi has an infinite number of digits they're going to need a Change Request form!

@n1vca 2 ай бұрын

You are so brilliant! I am in tears

@danmartens8855 2 ай бұрын

Don is the standup version of Scott Adams (Dilbert).

@jurijzahn8985 2 ай бұрын

As a Software Developer i would say pi is a runtime constant, and i trust in its value 😂

@johnshaw6702 Ай бұрын

Point! As a software programmer (title engineer) I would say it was a constant representation of the value of pi. But I wouldn't trust it unless I know that it's accuracy is close enough not to matter. 3.1415926....

@changuito10 9 ай бұрын

He is extremely good!!!

@FloydMaxwell 3 ай бұрын

"but you should use 4" -- love it !

@paulmampilly9828 3 ай бұрын

You ask a data analyst what pi is, and they will say a terrible vizualisation

@tutacat Ай бұрын

Well if the pie team can't work as a team, then they're all fired!

@DixieDee 5 ай бұрын

This is a keeper! Reminds me of a joke by the Moron Brothers. When they were in Math class, the teacher said, "𝝅r²". To which, one of them says, "No, Ma'am. Corn bread are square. Pie are round". LOL

@stefaniasmanio5857 22 күн бұрын

Genius❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂 pure genious

@johncage5368 9 ай бұрын

Accurate! 😂

@BB-iq4su 5 ай бұрын

So funny!

@victorskwrxsti7899 Ай бұрын

Accountants would be like "Which number do you want it to be?"

@bozhidarmihaylov 2 ай бұрын

Fractally Rational!

@sergeisemenenko6291 10 күн бұрын

Most time I got the question "what is pi", I ask "what problem do you solve?"

@vim55k Ай бұрын

One of the best videos

@RobinHagg 9 ай бұрын

So great

@user-vl5cf3ix9x 5 күн бұрын

LMAO! Awesome. I've worked with engineers most of my career through IT support. Including the rest of the corporate infrastructure. I can definitely relate to this video. It's all true!

@icusawme2 9 ай бұрын

Always funny

@R2k2 8 ай бұрын

This is cool! Has Matt Parker seen this already??

@PADARM 9 күн бұрын

That was brilliant. As a nerd myself this is totally accurated

@eskuriad Ай бұрын

The salesman line is truth.

@QXZ9027MKII 9 ай бұрын

O’boy,,,🤙🏼🤙🏼🤣🤣🤣🤣

@rayrowley4013 4 ай бұрын

Rounded to the nearest whole number pi=e

@rocktatnine 4 күн бұрын

As a computer engineer who's studied C language and knows the legacy of Bell Labs understands the reputation this man carries. The audience is so dumb. Respect man. Also you are the funniest. Love from India ❤❤

@JimmyKSimmonsOfficial 9 ай бұрын

THAT was funny 🤣

@mihaelrozental7787 9 ай бұрын

Well, when asked, my first thought single board computer (raspberry pi), so... i do embedded.

@Dalendrion 19 сағат бұрын

As a software engineer, we gotta play poker before we can determine what a potential PI is worth.

@yurenchu 15 сағат бұрын

May I have a large container of coffee today, sir? (Thanks)

@aripba87 Ай бұрын

I am an engineer and I agree on the engineer part. 😂

@thegallic4886 9 ай бұрын

I grew up around the corner from Bell labs!

@bikerjon8934 2 ай бұрын

That's funny

@jerryschwartz1848 Ай бұрын

LOL, I worked at Bell there too.

@zevfarkas5120 9 ай бұрын

Cool tie.

@yurenchu 16 сағат бұрын

For a mathematician, the value of π() depends on what you put into it: π(1) = 0 π(2) = 1 π(3) = 2 π(4) = 2 π(5) = 3 π(6) = 3 π(7) = 4 π(8) = 4 π(9) = 4 π(10) = 4 π(11) = 5 π(12) = 5 π(13) = 6 π(14) = 6 ... π(100) = 25 π(101) = 26 etc.

@andrewgilbert4155 8 ай бұрын

classic

@renobutters 9 ай бұрын

I'm the 42nd like for this video. Always a nerd.

@basseyetim4050 9 ай бұрын

I'm 94th.😂

@wg2060 9 ай бұрын

And thanks for all the fish

@rdgale2000 2 ай бұрын

Ah... Where are the Cargo Pants? PI? lemon meringue please.

@opinionrat Ай бұрын

You could spout off a set of random single digit numbers and that random set WILL be in pi.

@canebro1 4 ай бұрын

Engineer here, the correct answer is Math.PI. Someone else figured it out already so why should I?

@AbdUlrahman-po1xk Ай бұрын

I would totally use 4 to be safe 😂😂😂😂

@danielburys9291 Ай бұрын

Will get a physics degree soon and for me pi is just a constant

@kimberlycary2722 4 ай бұрын

❤😂😅😂😅😂😅

@briankorsedal 3 ай бұрын

2 Pi / 3 is a great number. I'm working on a high thoughput FFT core for an FPGA right now.

@Paladin1873 2 ай бұрын

Who would have thought an engineer could be so damned funny? And I'm speaking as a Georgia Tech graduate.

@jameshusband3302 Ай бұрын

and if you ask Homer Simpson, "mmmm pie"

@yseasablayrolles4922 5 ай бұрын

Thanks

@professorowblock7812 Ай бұрын

On one hand, I appreciate the joke about engineers saying "about 3 but maybe round to 4", but that's honestly a way more physicist thing to say.

@zenith8417 9 ай бұрын

Don: What is pi? Me: Better than cake. Fite me

@MarkMcDaniel 9 ай бұрын

*Fight.

@C.G.Gaster 9 ай бұрын

Honestly j agree

@CoffeeLoki67879 8 күн бұрын

I always pick pi or e when asked for a number between 1 and 10

@erfrulla 9 күн бұрын

I had constant problems with my math teacher in school because he kept sayin PII R Squared and kept saying that I am no fool. I know for a fact that pie are round.

@TheRealStructurer 9 ай бұрын

U forgot the consultants 😉

@IsYitzach 9 ай бұрын

There are many kinds of consultants. How would a consultant engineer differ from an in-house engineer?

@The_Last_Rick 9 ай бұрын

I an an engineer and you are quite correct, π is about 3.

@mjolnir3309 9 ай бұрын

22/7 says the engineer. Which i don't understand why that's easier to deal with. Who likes 7ths? As a computer programmer, i prefer to use the built-in constant. To me, asking what is pi(e) is like asking what is 2?

@XtreeM_FaiL 9 ай бұрын

T/2 is much better than 22/7.

@yurenchu 18 сағат бұрын

@@XtreeM_FaiL Don't you mean τ/2 or tau/2 ? T/2 reminds me of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

@yurenchu 18 сағат бұрын

22/7 is about just as accurate as 3.14 . In primary school I thought that 22/7 was actually the exact value of π . (So I used 22/7 and felt better than the kids who just used 3.14 .)

@mjolnir3309 17 сағат бұрын

@@yurenchu I get that it's a good approximation. I don't get how it's easier to deal with.

@yurenchu 16 сағат бұрын

@@mjolnir3309 What I meant is that it wasn't really a better approximation than 3.14 , but that I didn't realize it; I believed that my calculations were being exact. Working with decimals always seemed "non-exact" to me, so using 22/7 and writing answers as fractions of integers gave me a sense of getting at the "perfect" answer. That was until highschool, where I learned that π is irrational, and from then on I just kept π as a symbol in the outcome of calculations (unless specifically asked for a decimal approximation).