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Live Streaming Matthew McConaughey Reciting Pi to the Millionth Digit (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/mildlyinteresting

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please join in cheering “Matthew” on

Featuring Jonathan Nyberg as Matthew McConaughey

Seems like it's not the actual Matthew McConaughey unfortunately. What a strange project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

What the fuck . Let me see if i understand this so some guy is acting like another guy ??? Why ? (I do know who mathew is)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Matthew McConaughey is a pretty famous actor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And people act like actors ??? Wild . like why ? People are becoming too weird even for me .

[–] DocMcStuffin 12 points 7 months ago

Some back of the envelop math. It took about 8 hours 40 minutes to get to 13,800 digits, give or take.
That's an average of 26.5384615384615 digits / minute.
At the current rate it would take ~37,681 minutes to read 1 million digits.
Or 628.019323671498 hours.
Or around 26 days 4 hours.

[–] aeronmelon 11 points 7 months ago

He's gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!

[–] residentmarchant 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Crazy times we live in that my first instinct was "what a clever use of AI" only to read the description to see that no AI was used!

[–] nogooduser 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s easy to do this with a computer and no AI. Just have a recording of him saying each individual number and then get the computer to read the relevant recording while going through the digits of PI. You could have a number of recordings for each number and choose one randomly to simulate variation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Although that will require some mastery on the actor's part to allow for it to be edited well without special effects

Edit: watched the stream after commenting, since we can't see the actor, there is no need for editing the video, that makes it simpler, true

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