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standupmaths uploaded a video 6 days agoSOLUTION: Three Indistinguishable Dice Puzzle - Duration: 28 minutes.
This video contains a lot of solutions and a lot of dice. Original puzzle suggested by Lucas Garron.
Dice are: ALL GONE
Matt’s online mathematical toys store.
http://mathsgear.co.uk/
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 2 weeks ago
A super-quick, super-easy mathematical card dice. Oh, and I threaten to injure a dice.
Quick Mathematical Card Trick - Duration: 4 minutes, 45 seconds.
Colm Mulcahy’s Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects
US AMAZON
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Card-Magic-Fifty-Two-E...
UK AMAZON
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 3 weeks ago
Something I only recent found out about Ramanujan and 1729.
Ramanujan, 1729 and Fermat's Last Theorem - Duration: 16 minutes.
Some things you probably did not know about 1729 and the Man Who Knew Infinity.
Scan of page from Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook
http://i.imgur.com/xsfXHUz.jpg
Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh:
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 1 month ago
This is a new idea for videos! Please let me know what you think.
Matt & Hugh play with a Brick and derive Centripetal Acceleration - Duration: 11 minutes.
Matt and Hugh play with a tennis ball and a brick. Then they do some working out to derive the formula for the centripetal force (a = v^2/r) by differentiating some vectors.
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 1 month ago
Can you find a solution to an extremely unlikely dice problem?
The Three Indistinguishable Dice Puzzle - Duration: 7 minutes, 1 second.
Can you find a way to squeeze two dice out of three?
SOLUTION VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBftD7gq7Y
Problem suggested to me by Lucas Garron. Thanks to extra work done by Josh Laison,... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 1 month ago
Is it possible to get pi from a Menger Sponge?
The Fractal Menger Sponge and Pi - Duration: 13 minutes.
MegaMenger project:
http://megamenger.com/
Ed Pegg's article "Squeezing Pi from a Menger Sponge"
http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/822984
Mega Menger: Building a Menger Sponge at MIT
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 1 month ago
As a massive thank you to my 10^5 subscribers, I flipped a coin 10^1 times.
10 coin flips in a row! (for 10^5 subscribers) - Duration: 4 minutes, 16 seconds.
This is my celebration video for hitting 100,000 subscribers: I flip a coin accurately ten times in a row.
Using a FIFA Football "Referee Flip Coin" I get a perfect run of H, T, H, T, H, T, H, T, ... -
standupmaths uploaded a video 2 months ago
The Maths of Spinning Coins and Euler's Disk - Duration: 7 minutes, 51 seconds.
A spinning coin rotates as it wobbles. The rate of rotation is (1/cos(θ) - 1) of the rate of wobble. Draw an arrow on a coin and check it yourself!
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standupmaths uploaded a video 2 months ago
Calculating π by hand - Duration: 18 minutes.
For Pi Day 2016 I tried to calculate π by hand, using an infinite series. It goes ok.
Before you even start:
- Yes, I know π Day requites writing the date MM/DD. By objective measures: the wrong w... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 2 months ago
Two variations on the "Prisoners in Hats" puzzle! Bit of a quick video this week; I've been overly busy with 'normal work'.
Prisoners in Hats Puzzle: two variations - Duration: 9 minutes, 6 seconds.
While in Norway doing some maths shows I was given a tshirt and a puzzle. Both are very mathematical.
If you have not tried a "Prisoners in Hats Puzzle" before, I explain the basic version. If you... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 2 months ago
A bonus, slightly silly video which also makes up for the lack of mathematical working-out in this week's main video.
There is only One True Parabola - Duration: 9 minutes, 42 seconds.
Behold the one true parabola! All parabolas are exactly the same, just zoomed in and out.
Copy of the lecture notes:
http://imgur.com/a/OjvYo
Original paraboloids video:
https://www.youtube.com/w... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 2 months ago
Have you ever spun an Easter Egg?
Spinning Egg Trick (feat. Tippe Top) - Duration: 12 minutes.
Get an Easter Egg. Spin it. End of trick.
Yes, it is spelled "tippe top". They can already be bought super-cheap online, which is why we don't have them on Maths Gear.
If you want to take a close... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 2 months ago
I think we can do Leap Years better.
Leap Years: we can do better - Duration: 12 minutes.
2016 is a leap year because it is a multiple of 4 (and not a multiple of 100). The Gregorian Calendar system of leap years gives an average tropical year of 365.2425 days compared to the current tr... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 3 months ago
This video about paraboloids is only 5:51 long, I swear.
Paraboloids and The Building which Set Things on Fire - Duration: 16 minutes.
The building in London at 20 Fenchurch Street started to set things on fire! But it could have been worse. I use a paraboloid to set other things on fire.
Oh, and there's a maths proof.
News stor... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 3 months ago
Behold: the maths and logic of the Mind-boggling Card Trick revealed!
Mind-boggling Card Trick: REVEALED - Duration: 12 minutes.
Here it is, all the maths and logic behind the Mind-Boggling Card Trick.
Watch the original card trick here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNpGxZ_1KXU
The earliest record I can find of the same... -
standupmaths uploaded a video 3 months ago
Romantic Mathematical Shape: möbius-loop hearts - Duration: 7 minutes, 22 seconds.
Cutting a möbius loop in half is fun. Sticking two möbius loops together and cutting them both in half is romantic.
Much more on möbius loops and topology in my book Things to Make and Do in the F... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 3 months ago
A mind-boggling, self-working card trick.
Mind-boggling Card Trick (you can try at home) - Duration: 6 minutes, 6 seconds.
Prepare your mind to be boggled. This is an incredible card trick which is completely self-working.
This trick relies only on the mathematical properties of a deck of cards. I will put up a comple... -
standupmaths posted 3 months ago
Steve Mould was talking about coins and shapes of constant width. So I dropped by to make a guest appearance in his videos.
Amazing property of the Canadian one dollar coin you didn't know aboot - Duration: 6 minutes, 28 seconds.
Original Canadian bank note laser video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMGvTYDC5MA
Canadian money smell test video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KEQCudRqbY
Shapes of constant width:
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 3 months ago
Behold: Dr NIM. The 1960s mechanical plastic computer that can beat you at a game of Nim.
The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM - Duration: 11 minutes.
The game of (single pile) Nim can be won by anyone who understands a simple trick. A trick so easy, a 1960s mechanical plastic computer can play with perfect strategy, defeating all humans.
Learn ... -
standupmaths uploaded a video 4 months ago
New World-Record Largest Prime Ever Found! - Duration: 13 minutes.
2^74,207,281 - 1 is prime and it is the biggest prime humans have ever found. Behold all 22,338,618 digits.*
Official announcement of our new prime friend: http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M7... -
standupmaths uploaded a video 4 months ago
Australian Bank Notes are the Best in the World - Duration: 10 minutes.
Proof that Australian bank notes are the best in the world because they are sized according to a log scale. Also, they are water-proof.
I compare Australian, Canadian, UK and USA bank notes in an ... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 4 months ago
An A4-paper puzzle to solve and a crash-course in hash functions.
The A4 Paper Puzzle - Duration: 8 minutes, 1 second.
A puzzle to work out the perimeter of a shape (NO SPOILERS!) complete with an introduction to hash functions.
DO NOT put your answer tot he puzzle in the comments below. If you want to check your ... -
standupmaths posted 4 months ago
James Grime has released the solution video to his self descriptive number puzzle. Complete with surprise guests…
Maths Puzzle: The self descriptive number solution - Duration: 13 minutes.
Solution to the self descriptive number puzzle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Qc4oK_HqY
Here is the original version of the proof presented in the video http://singingbanana.com/self%20describi... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 4 months ago
Can you work out how you worked out Jame Grime's puzzle?
James Grime's Maths Puzzle: The self descriptive number - Duration: 105 seconds.
Can you solve James Grime’s self descriptive number puzzle and explain how you worked it out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Qc4oK_HqY
Answers with thought-processes below in the comments.
Jam... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 4 months ago
A stand-up comedy routine about spreadsheets.
Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets - Duration: 13 minutes.
Matt Parker’s comedy routine about spreadsheets. From the Festival of the Spoken Nerd DVD: Full Frontal Nerdity
Buy Full Frontal Nerdity as a DVD or Download:
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standupmaths uploaded and posted 5 months ago
The only mathematically accurate hexagonal paper snowflake guide online!
How to Make a Paper Snowflake - Duration: 6 minutes, 4 seconds.
The complete guide to making a scientifically accurate, mathematically precise snowflake from a single piece of paper (any ratio). Warning: may contain rant. -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 5 months ago
A new try at a Matt Explains video! this time: binomial coefficients.
Matt Explains: Binomial Coefficients [featuring: choose function, pascal's triangle] - Duration: 11 minutes.
This is a Matt Explains video. Still very much a work in progress. All feedback hugely appreciated.
Sorry about the strobing camera focus on the whiteboard! I seem to be in focus this time, but at... -
standupmaths uploaded and posted 5 months ago
Forget about platform 9¾, London King's Cross Station has a platform 0.
Doing Nothing on Platform Zero - Duration: 3 minutes, 15 seconds.
Forget about platform 9¾, London King's Cross Station has a platform 0.
Thanks to everyone at Raspberry Pi for accommodating me at such short notice!
PI ZERO: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/... -
standupmaths uploaded a video 5 months ago
There are SIX Platonic Solids - Duration: 7 minutes, 52 seconds.
Meet the Hyper-Diamond! It's the sixth Platonic Solid and it only works in the fourth dimension.
Your best google bet to find more about the hyper-diamond is "24-cell".
http://mathworld.wolfram.co... -
standupmaths uploaded a video 5 months ago
The Fairest Sharing Sequence Ever - Duration: 10 minutes.
The Thue-Morse Sequence is the fairest way to share things between two people. It also does all sorts of other crazy stuff.
Plus it is the solution to my previous video:
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
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