  Deviations of the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the
standard model, known as "anomalies", are obviously highly significant and
deserve to be pursued more aggressively in order to discover the physical
phenomena underlying them. Through intensive investigation we have discovered
that there are equally surprising features in the digits of the number $\pi$,
and moreover there is a remarkable correspondence between each type of
peculiarity in the digits of $\pi$ and the anomalies in the CMB. Putting aside
the unreasonable possibility that these are just the sort of flukes that appear
when one looks hard enough, the only conceivable conclusion is that, however
the CMB anomalies were created, a similar process imprinted patterns in the
digits of $\pi$.
