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Super interesting video. As a fan of the Japanese language and culture, this also really helped to make sense of, or *tie together* the at first glance seemingly unrelated meanings of the kanji '和'.
I still can't understand why food and clothes use 和 and 洋 to differentiate if they are Japanese or Western, but for music and film they use 邦楽 and 邦画 to denote them being Japanese.
It wasn't an older inmate, it was an education worker who was teaching math at the prison. Edit: There's a lot of things wrong in this video. Chris did an interview with Numberphile and explained it all.
Thanks for setting the record straight. I am not surprised that there are errors here - I made this a few years before Brady interviewed Chris for Numberphile, and there weren't quite as many details available back then. Glad Chris' story is getting spread further than my little channel though!
Good to know! I am far from a Francophone so I just gave it my best guess at pronunciation, but I can see how pronunciation matters when it has to fit in the lyrics of a song!
@@ferretsenseiwell it's not particularly a lyric, I just found out from other studies the pronunciation of his name. Twenty one pilots just mentions Nicolas bourbaki which opens up this whole study :)
Indeed, but I imagine 19th century Arizonians had little to no experience seeing camels so I can understand why they might call it a horse. Incidentally, there used to be camelid species native to North America, which were more closely related to Llamas and Alpacas, but they went extinct thousands of years ago. They are a kind of sagebrush that no other animals can digest. When the camel corps was introduced to this area, the camels started eating it, restarting a long broken food chain!
Can this system be used for a duodecimal and a sexagesimal system? What is a sub base? Can there be a sexagesimal system with a duodecimal sub base system?
In this case, the sub-base of 5 just means the horizontal strokes are increments of 5 rather than keeping vertical strokes going on the bottom. So you don't switch to a new register until you reach 20, but you can count 1's and 5's in different parts of the same character. In other cultures this was done with a dot. I suppose if you did a duodecimal version of this, the sub-base would be 3?? So every group of 3 would be counted up at the top with a maximum of 3 horizontal strokes (equalling 9) and then up to 2 vertical strokes until you start over again at 12. If you wanted the sub base to be 6, you'd need up to 5 vertical strokes, so the balance between top and bottom would be sorta weird. A sub base of 3 seems better for aesthetics...
God I wanna visit Japan so bad. I'm too young to have any interest in retro gaming outside of a historical sense, but its great to see you exploring your hobbies!
There's definitely something for everyone here. I've lived here for almost 20 years and still find things to surprise myself all the time. I hope you make it out to Japan one day.
I gotta love unique obscure history. With your video concepts and video production, I would think your channel would have orders of magnitudes more subscribers!
I appreciate that feedback. Maybe we'll get there one day, but for now I am just happy people are watching and enjoying the videos. Especially people like you who take the time to leave kind and considerate comments! Thanks again!
This isn't directly related to your comment, but I remember as a kid watching a movie where a boat abandoned it's entire cargo of horses into the ocean and watching those poor horses desperately swimming into oblivion sort of traumatized me. It's like watching that famous Artax scene from Neverending Story times 100. I don't know what movie that was and never looked it up because I don't want to see it again!
Gonna be honest, the only thing I ever played on my gameboy color was pokemon yellow and silver, even had the pikachu edition gameboy. Man I envy you for having kept yours...
@@ferretsensei I'll say it aged terribly, but growing with it, with the whole phenomenon surrounding it, it's really an artifact of its time. I'd recommend playing either the remakes of the first two gens or, a controversial opinion, but I think the let's go games on switch removes a lot of the tedium associated with those game. While young me would have hated it, grown up me loved it. I already crunch spread sheets all day long, no need to do it again at home. (funnily enough, I am still obsessed with satisfactory in spite of this, go figure)
Happy to see you back. Its good to see creators making content that speaks to them and makes them feel good. Thanks for sharing your journey with us; looking forward to what comes next!
@@ferretsensei ooooh you have no clue... You have summoned a fanbase without even knowing it. If you decide to jump in this rabbit hole, we welcome you, but be prepared, there's a lot and it might seem crazy, but it's our crazy and we love it.
Thank you so much for sharing your story! I dont remember how I subscribed to this channel a while back, but I am very interested to see what happens next. If nothing happens, that’s fine too. 🎉
Welcome back man, happy to see you got better. Really happy to see, as well, that you do seem to have a good support network around you. Anyways, can't wait to see what you do next! Have a good day everyone and a great week end as well.
Good to see you back man. I have my own experiences with depression, so I'm glad you've managed to break through it. Can't wait to see what you create going forward.
Hey fellow ferret! Thanks for the words of encouragement and sharing your own experience. It's always a pleasant surprise how supportive the RU-vid community can be.
@@ferretsensei I just realised that it could be a disadvantage when you need to quickly distinguish them from afar, like on a digital clock or a traffic sign. Even though we also have similar symbols that can sometimes get mixed up (3 8; 1 7; 3 5...).
This is all really cool, but one question. How do you write pie in this numeral system. I wanted to write this to see what cool mathematical arcane scroll of Inuit magic I could make, but due to the number system eventually going right to left when going rather than how we go left to right and add another number to the end. I just want to know if they have solved this problem as well as how they tackle decimal numbers.
Very cool. Question: wouldn't it kind of destroy the whole system to be turning the south pointing chariot off on straightaways? Thereby it can't compensate for small curves on a road, that looks straigt to the human eye? Was this actually used as navigation, or was it just a cool trinket owned for prestige? Anyways very cool device, I should go read about it. Great video.