Does Achilles ever catch the tortoise?
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1 decade 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago • 417 views • 12:05
YouTube Description: French numbers can pose problems for non-native speaker - especially when you move beyond 70. Also discussing problems with phone numbers and commas!Featuring Dr Paul Smith from... continue reading
posted by Zifnab
1 decade 1 year 9 months ago • 469 views • 9:56
YouTube Description: Just how hard was the second problem cracked by Will in Good Will Hunting? Matt Damon!And who doesn't love Homeomorphically Irreducible Trees?This video features Dr James Grime -... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,205 views • 4:54
YouTube Description: Beautiful Dragon Curves, Fractals and Jurassic Park. Featuring Rob Eastaway.
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 257 views • 7:04
On January 19th, 2038 at 3:14:07, all 32-bit computer clocks will rollover back to December 13, 1901.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago • 166 views • 8:01
Neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth describes patients who have lost their capacity to use words, but not numbers; or numbers but not words, always with the interesting twist that numbers spelled out,... continue reading
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,185 views • 6:43
Mathemusician ViHart tackled Numberphile's Yahtzee challenge - but in her own style of course.
posted by renatojj 1 decade 2 years 2 months ago • 630 views • 5:52
(youtube) We're exploring the world of Chicken Nuggets and Frobenius numbers. 43 has long been a special number in the world of McNugget mathematics, but 11 is also important!
posted by pumkinandstorm
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There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions a standard 3x3 Rubik's Cube can get to. And there's 12 times more positions you can make if you take it apart. Here's the math.
posted by messenger 1 decade 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 385 views • 10:14
It's the time it would take for a model universe to completely reset itself back to a previous state.
posted by messenger 1 decade 2 years 5 months ago • 636 views • 12:04
A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude. Watch with caution. See also our video about the Googol and... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna
(kulpims) 1 decade 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,048 views • 9:16
The lucky number "sieve" was developed by the legendary Stanislaw Ulam, who was born and died on the 13th of the month (lucky number) at the age of 75 (lucky number)... and his birth year of 1909 saw the... continue reading
posted by renatojj 1 decade 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 920 views • 2:50
The numberphile guys, who also do the Sixty Symbols videos, take a look at the number 42. Douglas Adams would have turned 60 on March 11th, 2012.
posted by RFlagg
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From YT: We discuss the number 16 - a perfect square - and how sitting at table 16 led to something bigger for Matt Parker. In this video is Dr Ria Symonds from the University of Nottingham. And... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 weeks ago • 1,059 views • 5:35
From Brady Haran's new video series, Numberphile: explaining binary to understand why Pac-Man becomes unplayable after 255 levels.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 weeks ago • 1,518 views • 5:24