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  • I wasn't serious when I came up with this idea,

  • but you know how these things get out of hand.

  • All right, listen up.

  • Each of my fingers is a digit, but instead of a ones, tens,

  • hundreds, thousands place, which are the powers of 10,

  • try it again with 1's, 2's, 4's, 8's, 16's.

  • Here I'm counting 1 to 8.

  • Now, instead of 1's and 0's, just use your fingers, 1, 2, 3.

  • This is how you count on your hands in binary.

  • Going to make it easy.

  • Write the place values on my fingertips.

  • Count the ones you see.

  • 4 plus 2, that's 6.

  • 16 plus 2 is 18.

  • You can do it up, or dance it down.

  • Put those digits on the ground.

  • Now do it with me.

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

  • Dance it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

  • Now, pi and binary look something

  • like this, 11.001001 dot dot dot.

  • It's not what we're doing.

  • We're taking the decimal version,

  • putting each digit in binary.

  • Now let's dance us some pi.

  • We got 3, 1, 4.

  • I got my bro doing 3, 1, 4.

  • Got my mama doing 3, 1, 4.

  • Even my grandma's doing 3, 1, 4.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • All right, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,

  • 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,

  • oh.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

I wasn't serious when I came up with this idea,

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