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The first known maths author
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Hugh thanks to the British Museum for getting the papyrus out of storage for me to see. You can watch the other non-papyrus video I made with them over here: ua-cam.com/video/WctTJVdsISE/v-deo.html
If you want to have a closer look at the maths on the papyrus, there are scans on the British Museum site: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10058
CAN YOU SOLVE IT:
You have to divide 100 loaves between 5 men in such a way that the shares received shall be in arithmetical progression. And that 1/7 of the sum of the largest 3 shares shall be equal to the sum of the smallest 2. What is the difference of the shares?
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CORRECTIONS
- None yet, let me know if you spot anything!
Filming by Alex Genn-Bash
Editing by Gus Melton
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: standupmaths.com/
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The shape that should be impossible.
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Get your Sydler-shape limited-edition dust jacket now! mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed Here is the bonus video with all the details: ua-cam.com/video/cB18rgH5YaM/v-deo.html See some of you at the Copenhagen Developers Festival, 28 August 2024 cphdevfest.com/ Thanks so much to Paul Catherall who made these beautiful prints. www.paulcatherall.com If you order Love Tri...
New 7-direction pencil model discovered!
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Find out more about Jane Street’s programmes running across the world: bit.ly/sum-janestreet-programs Including the WiSE course which is open to self-identifying women and gender-expansive university students and incoming students: www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/programs-and-events/wise/ Check out KangarooPhysics’ original gif showing the cross-section through the packing arrangment: x.com...
The mathematically impossible ball that shouldn’t exist.
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Sign the petition now! mathsballs.com/ Pre-order Love Triangle to read about the Impossi-ball. mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed All UK options: www.penguin.co.uk/books/44315... All USA options: bit.ly/3wCTesR Check out Jon-Paul's balls: www.tiktok.com/@jonpaulsballs Huge thanks to Jon-Paul and Allison for making the ball and inviting us to their studio. 12p.com/ Than...
When a complicated proof simplifies everything
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Pre-order Love Triangle on Maths Gear now and get a signed copy! mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed Also, a special book cover if you're fast enough. You'll be fast enough. All UK options: www.penguin.co.uk/books/44315... All USA options: bit.ly/3wCTesR Video was inspired by this r/mathematics post and the discussion it lead to: www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/s/UNJaYMGGt...
The Minecraft boat-drop mystery
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Here is camman18's UA-cam short about the mystery: ua-cam.com/users/shortsWvyVFSOD-uM?si=yeOzmMj6BD0a0E3c Huge thanks to Natalie for sending it to me! This is the bug report Oliver found: bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-119369?focusedId=804740 Explore floating point errors yourself using the IEEE-754 Floating Point Converter: www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html My previous video about Minec...
The biggest hand calculation in a century! [Pi Day 2024]
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Please note down the new value of pi: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223176 If you'd like to sign up to hear about future ridiculous maths projects that require volunteers: forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 Play list of all my previous calculating pi day videos: ua-cam.com/play/PLhtC92GarkjyYbxI3-...
Rotation without rotating.
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Check out Jane Street's excellent Academy of Math and Programming (AMP). bit.ly/3T6gc3n Jane Street has put together a fun logic puzzle to get folks excited about the AMP program. You don’t need to complete the puzzle to apply - it’s just something fun to get you thinking! Check it out: bit.ly/sum-amp Here are Andrew Taylors slides on "Rotation with three shears". I saw him give this talk at th...
The Five Compound Platonic Solids
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Do check out my video with Adam Savage over on Tested: ua-cam.com/video/s_F4uD8wAs0/v-deo.html Yes, I'm back in NYC for An Evening of Unnecessary Detail on Sunday April 14. www.eventbrite.com/e/matt-parker-an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-847453715877?aff=oddtdtcreator Pre-order my new book! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed The excellent gra...
The beautiful maths which makes 5G faster than 4G, faster than 3G, faster than...
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Pre-order Love Triangle on Maths Gear now and get a signed copy! Also, a special book cover if you're fast enough. mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed UK edition out 20 June, pre-order options: bit.ly/UKLoveTriangle USA edition out 20 August, pre-order options: bit.ly/3wCTesR Here are the fantastic GeoGebra files Ben Sparks made for the video. Modulated 1 bit: www.geoge...
The 1,200 Year Maths Mistake
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See you all in Wemding, Germany in 2033 for the next installation of this inevitable maths mistake. Thanks to everyone involved with Zeitpyramide who were hugely welcoming and accomodating. Official Zeitpyramyde website: www.zeitpyramide.de/ Check out Ayliean MacDonald's excellent work on TikTok and indeed UA-cam: www.tiktok.com/@ayliean/video/7276938427071876385 www.youtube.com/@Ayliean We als...
The mystery of 0.8660254037844386467637231707529361834714026269051903140279034897...
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Support "Doing Things the Hard Way Matt" on patreon: www.patreon.com/standupmaths Full video of Doing Things the Hard Way Matt doing things the hard way is on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/watch-full-doing-98412935 OEIS sequence A010527 "Decimal expansion of sqrt(3)/2" oeis.org/A010527 Do support the OEIS! oeisf.org/donate/ And here are a bunch of the digits: 0.86602540378443864676372317075293...
Why do all shapes lie in the Polyhedron Plane?
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Check out AMP or suggest it to someone who could benefit. And here is the puzzle: bit.ly/sum-amp Thanks to Jane Street for sponsoring this video! www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/ I'll be doing An Evening of Unnecessary Detail at the Bristol Beacon, UK on Tuesday 12 March 2024. Come and celebrate Almost Pi Day with me! And celebrate Ages Until Tau Day with Steve Mould. festivalofthespokenner...
Rarefaction curves and advanced mothematics .
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Watch this space for any updates on if the rainforest moths we found were new to science! Thanks to Rainforest Expeditions who organised our trip. www.rainforestexpeditions.com/ Full disclosure: we paid for our flights to Peru but Rainforest Expeditions provided our visit into the rainforest for free. We visited the Tambopata Research Center and the Refugio Amazonas lodges. If you'd like to vis...
Why are the ice shelves collapsing?
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Yes, I'm doing a show in LA on Sunday January 7. It's a bit last-minute. Come and say hi! www.flapperscomedy.com/shows/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail/72865/ Huge thanks to Sammie for sharing her equations. Check out her work at Northumbria University: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/sammie-buzzard/ "A Mathematical Model of Melt Lake Development on an Ice Shelf" agupubs.onlinelibrar...
I designed a silly but semi-functional computer.
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I designed a silly but semi-functional computer.
Chicago has a problem until the year 2083.
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Chicago has a problem until the year 2083.
Why does Vegas have its own value of pi?
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Why does Vegas have its own value of pi?
The Neat Alignment of the World's Biggest Antiprism
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The Neat Alignment of the World's Biggest Antiprism
A needlessly complicated but awesome bridge.
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A needlessly complicated but awesome bridge.
Mirror-image Mirror Balls: introducing the Kite-Rhombus Hectapentacontahedron
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Mirror-image Mirror Balls: introducing the Kite-Rhombus Hectapentacontahedron
An unexciting video about distance derivatives
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An unexciting video about distance derivatives
How many ways can you join regular pentagons?
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How many ways can you join regular pentagons?
Unexpected science from a 0.000001 megapixel home-made telescope
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Unexpected science from a 0.000001 megapixel home-made telescope
We analysed 4,678,387 NBA shots
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We analysed 4,678,387 NBA shots
Behold all-new equations for triangles!
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Behold all-new equations for triangles!
I Discovered a Maths Loophole in UK Tax
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I Discovered a Maths Loophole in UK Tax
Are There Any 3-Landlocked Countries?
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Are There Any 3-Landlocked Countries?
Was Michael Jackson's hair catching fire in a Pepsi ad the exact mid-point of his life?
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Was Michael Jackson's hair catching fire in a Pepsi ad the exact mid-point of his life?
Using an Out-of-Control Car to Calculate π.
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Using an Out-of-Control Car to Calculate π.

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @MrDschiesus
    @MrDschiesus 43 хвилини тому

    totally get his excitement. geiles projekt

  • @greggashgarian8360
    @greggashgarian8360 Годину тому

    Almost 2 leagues under the sea. Great book title!

  • @PCM_LT
    @PCM_LT 2 години тому

    can we please have more pencils available for sale

  • @andrewsmith746
    @andrewsmith746 3 години тому

    Cutting the deck has no effect.

  • @andrewsmith746
    @andrewsmith746 3 години тому

    This was not the first time that the perfect bridge deal actually happened. It happened back in the 1960s and was featured, if I remember correctly, on The Garry Moore Show.

  • @user-pr6ed3ri2k
    @user-pr6ed3ri2k 3 години тому

    7:31 how are we supposed to project the pentagonal bipyramid?

  • @zakmckrakcken
    @zakmckrakcken 4 години тому

    Does it help us evading taxes? No. Oh tell them it’s a no then.

  • @LostSoulsParadoxicalDoctrine
    @LostSoulsParadoxicalDoctrine 4 години тому

    4000 years from now, they will create every possible variation of "how" & "why" about it, and the one person having the most correct answer will be drowned out by "it was done by the very first True AI!" ...all because we have more imagination than we have intelligence. Lol

  • @niaschimnoski882
    @niaschimnoski882 5 годин тому

    Hey, this version of your sign accurate ball makes me angry, and I'll tell you why: I'm wondering why one doesn't simply, extrude black xor white pyramids from the hexagon footdonut, to the point-ring at the center of the foot donut, and then, bend and distort the foot donut, so that from one angle it looks like a hexagon football, and then, after that, take a 3D sphere, and use it as a selection area, to cut out the desired portion of donut so that it is solely comprised of hexagons but of different sizes? Seems mathier to do it that way.... just sayin... so I'm angry. Rock on homie⚽️

    • @niaschimnoski882
      @niaschimnoski882 4 години тому

      Oh and one relatively painless way one might MIGHT (not 💯 on this) do it, is by doing a CG physics simulation, and hanging the foot donut from a rod while it has a honey/tar or taffy consistency, and letting it plop into a hemi-spherical bowl. And then the moment it ia fluah with the inner wall of the bowl: Check if a spherical volume flush with the inner sphere-face of the bowl can fit inside the foot donut, and if not; Then, copy the geometry of the current foot donut, and now, model its physics as if it is a hollow pool inflateable and then expand a sphere inside of it, and then once that sphere is full size: Pause the simulation again, and model each hexagonal-base pyramid in the footdonut volume, as a fully colored volumetric solid. Then use the original spherical selection area, to cut out and copy, the inside important bits of the foot donut, and move that to a seperate renderer and look at it. Make designs of it, and send it off to be mass produced or whatever 💖

    • @niaschimnoski882
      @niaschimnoski882 3 години тому

      Oh no it was Savannahxyz. Also to get the Gons in the right spot you could probably use some sort of magnetism. And instead of a proper particle based fluid simulation you could probably do vertices and ragdolls. Also I don't know for sure if the result will be different, but I feel it might be. So yeh. Oh also, if instead of using tris you use hexagons and a low poly model with the same number of faces as the actual footdonut texture; that would probably help somehow I feel.

  • @justpotatoit
    @justpotatoit 6 годин тому

    How would you design a Dobble for which if you choose 3 cards they have 1 unique match?

  • @Skrin19
    @Skrin19 6 годин тому

    Wait, so if a sphere is actually the boundary surface and a ball is the entire object, then we can conclude that the earth is, in fact, a ball.

  • @Sagitarria
    @Sagitarria 7 годин тому

    Now talk with someone about the nine chapters of the mathematical art

  • @Finn-OskarMikkelsen
    @Finn-OskarMikkelsen 7 годин тому

    I just realised that the title has an interrobang in it!!!

  • @randomperson5579
    @randomperson5579 8 годин тому

    The initials on the jersey where "almost" correct?... They gave Matt... a Parker Jersey... it's like it was destined.

  • @ihaveanunorigionalname
    @ihaveanunorigionalname 10 годин тому

    3:30 ty that Woman is awesome ty ty ty im not crazy theres no e

  • @russell2952
    @russell2952 11 годин тому

    How can someone go through life without a pair of side cutters?

  • @SappyVespidae
    @SappyVespidae 12 годин тому

    If you are worried about using a boat for anti-fall damage but dont want to risk hitting the 12, 13, 49 ect, then just exit the boat 1-3 blocks before hitting the ground. Your boat will break but you take zero fall damage.

  • @dneary
    @dneary 12 годин тому

    I'm reminded of the old story about the physics student who answered a question about using a high quality barometer to measure the height of a building, and came up with 10 different ways to do it.

  • @analoghabits9217
    @analoghabits9217 12 годин тому

    lol it's over 9000

  • @AfungusoftheLungusAmongus
    @AfungusoftheLungusAmongus 13 годин тому

    8:32 Geometry class in a nutshell.

  • @lilandertaler9702
    @lilandertaler9702 13 годин тому

    Great bit

  • @mattbman
    @mattbman 14 годин тому

    First published math text - did he have to go through peer review?

  • @joshrichards7328
    @joshrichards7328 14 годин тому

    Matt that sign is 5 minutes away from where i grew up, this is the closest i’ve been to being in a video yayyy :)

  • @gary-williams
    @gary-williams 15 годин тому

    Microsoft Paint used three skews to implement rotation.

  • @uorya
    @uorya 15 годин тому

    “Is not it awesome” 🤨

  • @AstroTibs
    @AstroTibs 15 годин тому

    0:37 The two-digit primes map is incomplete. Specifically, in the lower-left hex. For example: you can go from 13 to 73.

  • @sanchit7493
    @sanchit7493 15 годин тому

    oh hi i saw the eater egg and I feel special now

  • @renanmaas3502
    @renanmaas3502 16 годин тому

    The best football build since Jabulani

  • @damiandassen7763
    @damiandassen7763 16 годин тому

    12:32 the answer is 9 breads and 1/6th of a bread

  • @LabRatJason
    @LabRatJason 16 годин тому

    I think you might be losing some deceleration data due to friction loss while cornering. it would look like a downward vector instead of a rearward vector.

  • @user-jj3ee5fn4d
    @user-jj3ee5fn4d 16 годин тому

    Hi-sofisticated structure,intetesting do not matter time plan,function:

  • @stigmistergaming3561
    @stigmistergaming3561 18 годин тому

    So if you square a square you get a circle?

  • @gdragonlord749
    @gdragonlord749 18 годин тому

    From my perspective, the boat only works properly at thise heights

  • @bradaz678
    @bradaz678 19 годин тому

    i really hope they never clean the blocks, will be interesting to see how years effect the stones when separated by the years

  • @checkmated2667
    @checkmated2667 20 годин тому

    Simple: Start a new pyramid in 3193 and delay the problem an extra 1,200 years.

  • @smoceany9478
    @smoceany9478 20 годин тому

    i want to thank all the experts in the comments below for telling their definitely real facts with good evidence

  • @AhemLd
    @AhemLd 20 годин тому

    True statement: Just because Biden votes do not follow Benford's law, does not mean he won fraudulently Also true: He did win fraudulently though

  • @justinberry9030
    @justinberry9030 21 годину тому

    I can’t count either. Love math! Bad at count!

  • @redneckhippiefreak
    @redneckhippiefreak 21 годину тому

    Uhh..No one is thinking about the exposed reedbar rotting out in 120 years? Talk about an oversight.. This is why the old world builders used protrusions to set their stones....not to mention.. It is highly doubtful modern concrete will last over 200 years.

  • @blew319
    @blew319 22 години тому

    Now I need a T shirt that has those 5 words: FJORD GUCKS NYMPH VIBEX WALTZ The best list of heterograms.

  • @reanukeeves4212
    @reanukeeves4212 22 години тому

    I remember watching you explain science stuff on "You Have Been Warned" one of my favorite shows ever!

  • @emotionalIntelligence2078
    @emotionalIntelligence2078 22 години тому

    Everything was beautiful until white man got hold of it.

  • @blew319
    @blew319 22 години тому

    Now we need the mystery of why 198 doesn’t rock the boat solved…

  • @supernovaaust
    @supernovaaust День тому

    Here is how to approach this in a philisophical way and using algebra. #)1 .99r is not a real number or has value #2 it can only be understood by sequence. #3 is there a sequence wherby we can extract an unequal value???? My proposition is we use two sequences of equal value but not equalling1. So... First in the sequence is .99 the value is .01 from 1 if we add .01 to 1 we get 1.01. The difference between .99 and 1.01 is .02 If we accept the .99=1 then we also accept that 1.01=1 because the two values are equal in as much as both are .01 from 1 However, the difference between 1 and 1= 0 The difference between .99 and 1.01= .02 Using algebra we have doubled the original difference whilst the value for 1 remains unchanged. In what world does one value double and another value remain unchanged but remains equal???? Now if you compute each of the sequences sequentially you will get the same answer.

  • @philmoore71
    @philmoore71 День тому

    wow. so am i really just watching 0 & 1s.

  • @MasterBerlin
    @MasterBerlin День тому

    well let's say if a single human generation lasts for an averge 50 years then this whole pyramid will take 15 human generations to complete. just wow!

  • @dafan-uv8vf
    @dafan-uv8vf День тому

    Fun fact: the principalities of Hohenzollern Hechingen and Hohenzollern Sigmaringen were actual TRIPLE landlocked nations

  • @haipingcao2212_.
    @haipingcao2212_. День тому

    *_like beggars that do not know_*_ math_ 👇👈

  • @adityavardhanjain
    @adityavardhanjain День тому

    Of course the oldest math was done on a brown paper.

  • @rustyshackelford3371
    @rustyshackelford3371 День тому

    This is about the dumbest thing I've seen today.