Insane Math Facts That You Won’t Believe are True 

its math not maths, you silly brit. Go drink your tea and eat your crumpets and dont give me no crap about how british english is the true english. You guys lost that right when you had to call on america to win the world wars. lol

Would infinity divided by infinity equal Pi?

Is Surfshark better than Nord-VPN?

Downvote since you used an inappropriate abbreviation for MATHEMATICS. It is MATH. You do not PLURALIZE an ABBREVIATION of a PLURAL. Not even in British English. Why can't the English learn to speak? - Prof Higgins.

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I did thumbs you up but unfortunately I think you're missing your target audience

Or watch Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio 😂

@@MrMancreatedgod My target audience should probably be people who take out payday loans, but I feel like they're unlikely to listen to me for financial advice, even if that was sensible 😄

​​@@yo388or the number of anti democracy Americans after 8 years of having a black man president. Shouldn't you be on a flat earth or creationism channel?

​@@ApothecaryTerrythe reason he said it is uk law caped loans at 0.8% interest a day effectively driving them out of business and if you are getting a loan in tne UK from the loans companies that are left it's not that expensive.

The ton of feathers. Bricks are bricks. But if you have a ton of feathers, you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds.

​@@halifornia2001Nice.

What are the bricks made of? 😉

@@BullScrapPracEff Feathers.

I’ve been asked whether I’d rather have a ton of feathers or a tone of bricks dropped on me. It’s certainly the feathers. Assuming they aren’t compacted, they’ll disperse and become harmless. Either way, the feathers are softer.

You'll be fairly unpopular at the bank or the shops. 😂🖖

The copper alone would be worth it.

I'll bet I can spend all of my infinite nickels faster

Gonna see you spend hours at that green sorting machine.

@@gungasc lol 30% of the infinite pennies will be spit back out

To infinity… and beyond!

​@@gregbors8364Sorry... Which infinity exactly?

You can imagine anything you like to be true but here in the real world infinity dose not exist.

@@facetubetwit1444 Are you trying to argue some sort of philosophical point or are you just trolling? Uninspiring, if the latter.

@@hedlund Bruh if you can prove True infinity you will win a Nobel prize. this infinite is akin to perpetual motion machines which it not how the universe works, But having said that it's ok for you to believe i am not trying to take that away from you, Heck their are people who believe in Easter bunny and Santa clause so it is perfectly ok for to believe in magic as well.

Give an example of a formula you struggle with... once you learn what symbols are and what is their value it is quite easy... if you don't understand what order of calculations you should do, then you just need to learn that also... there is no need for connection to numbers if you have learned the rest... if you didn't learn that, bad exuses aren't what you should share online

Thats really not uncommon, but also very much a gigantic flaw with education systems currently. Teaching you random formulas without a practical uses is a gamble if you are ever going to remember it. It is true it makes it easier to relearn it, but that doesnt justify wasting your time. "When are where are we going to use this?" Detention for your insolence! Instead of, ok class we are going to use the Pythagorean theorem today to make triangles out of wood. Doesnt even have to be real wood, but if your brain marks it as useful, you will retain the information longer.

@@keith_5584 In school we would get cordinates where the points are... then we would have to draw it on a paper in 3D and then make it in workshop out of wood... or get a piece of some geometrical wooden thing and reverse enginner it to get cordinates... I went to a plumbers high school in Croatia from 2004-2007... I never had a collage education... we also made our own simple tools like hammers and chizels esc... we had to have drawings, mesurments, plan of work writen in special leather bound notebooks we had for everything we produced and if something we made that was working on steam or hydraulic's then we would have to predict the force and pressure of it plus know materials and their strong and weak points

@@n.v.9000 Seems just a bit extreme, but favorable. Did it help, or did you end up in detention anyway? Appreciate the share.

@@keith_5584 it helped a lot... it isnt extreme if you want to go later in life for an engineer... it is if you gonna lay down some pipes... but they covered us... but all subjects were like that... we didn't have a concept of detention and it is a creepy concept... but we also never gave a plegde to the flag or country... different prioreties look like... we needed educated young people, Usa needs soldiers

Was told this story in year 5 😂

@@TheKrispyfort Was told this story when I was 5.🤣

But which will bounce?

It depends if the mother is around. If so, the cannon ball will hit the ground first, because the mother tries to catch the baby.

@@johannesvanderhorst9778 guessing you haven’t seen ‘Addams family values’…? Cos it was Gomez, the dad, who caught the baby by a fluke of timing…

I am more interested in which will get squashed...

That must have been one short horoscope reading!

Astrology at school? Seriously?

In the quiet of the night aboard the USS Enterprise, Commander Riker and Captain Picard found themselves in the captain's ready room, enjoying a rare moment of relaxation. The stars outside the window formed a mesmerizing backdrop, a reminder of the vastness of space they explored together. "Jean-Luc, do you ever tire of this endless journey?" Riker asked, his voice soft, almost reflective. Picard looked up from his book, a slight smile playing on his lips. "There are moments, Will, when the solitude of command can weigh heavily. But then, I think of the crew, of the friendships we've forged, and it all seems worthwhile." Riker nodded, understanding the sentiment all too well. "We've been through so much together. It's those bonds that keep us going, I think." The captain set his book aside and leaned back in his chair. "Indeed. It's not just the exploration of the unknown that drives us, but the connections we make along the way." There was a comfortable silence between them, one that spoke of years of mutual respect and camaraderie. Riker walked over to the replicator and ordered two glasses of Saurian brandy, handing one to Picard. "To friendship," Riker toasted, raising his glass. "To friendship," Picard echoed, clinking his glass against Riker's.

Thats quite an overstatement

@@sksajjad7847 I agree: Vsauce knows what he's talking about.

How many people actually chose the 1000? That doesn't seem like anywhere near enough to consider taking even if you don't have much of a math brain

@@real_surreal_sir We were asked to pick one, then explain why we choose before the teacher showed how to do the math. Only like 5 of us knew how to do the math before the teacher showed the class, so only the 5 of us picked the penny option.

I have used this one many times and almost everyone says $1000. You could actually bump it up to $100,000 and it would still be less than the penny doubled 30 times.

The way I’ve heard it is to either double a penny everyday for 30 days or one million dollars in one day. With this one, the million dollar option sounds more tempting than when using the one thousand dollars for 30 days one.

@@real_surreal_sir You're only saying that because you know the answer. For someone who doesn't know the "power" of exponential growth, the idea of a bunch of pennies doesn't seem like much. I mean, to be fair, you need to wait until day 18 before you get even $1000(on a single day). It's just that the growth really takes off from there and you start getting multiple thousands of dollars a day. It's not even until day 28 that you get your first million-dollar day. I used a calculator and think I got my numbers right.

Same.

Good point. Another point. What makes it seem impossible to be empty is the fact that it is construed as an operational process and those can't be done as they will have an arbitrarily large number of steps and not an infinite number of steps.

Thank you.. I thought I was the only one who caught that one... 😂😂😂

Thought it was from The Big Short.

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary, those that do and those that don't

Tax returns are basically adding and subtracting numbers. So not high school math but primary school math.😉

If you can't do your taxes it's not the because of the education system but just because you're stupid

@@richardgratton7557 You might recall that the math part of math class wasn't as hard as figuring out how to apply it. (US) taxes are way harder than basic math.

he was probably just on autopilot not caring about what he was reading 😂

That's a good one. The most interesting way I've heard it put is that, if every grain of sand on earth were an earth covered in sand, and each of those grains of sand were an earth covered in sand, the chances of encountering the same perfectly shuffled deck of cards twice is MUCH LESS LIKELY that the chances of randomly picking the same grain of sand twice from the sand-earths of the sand-earths.

@@yobgodababua1862huh?

It's (52!) Vsauce did a good video on this. He said you could walk around the earth at the equator, take a drop of water out of the ocean and set it aside, then walk around again and again taking one drop each time. When the oceans were completely dry the amount of years it took you to do this wouldn't even be close to how many years it would take you to shuffle the same ordered deck twice.

​@@100percentSNAFU It's interesting because 52 factorial is both something you can hold in one hand (a deck of cards) and also a just almost unfathomably large number (~8*10^67). Tthe idea that it's extremely unlikely that any two games of cards (poker, solitaire, etc) have ever been played with the same cards in the same order makes people's brains hurt.

I count my fingers three times and get three different results. 😂

You can use your fingers?.. Why I have I been collecting dead rats then? I thought it was coz they sorta rolled up nicely when you were done countin. You tellin me I coulda cooked em?!

Simon is neither handsome nor a scientist

I can count to 21 if I'm naked!

I can ride a bike with no handlebars.

I'd take a tonne of gold - it's a cube of only 37 cm 🤭

True, but if you had a large enough (theoretically) piece of paper, it would end up virtually in a point, but it could go the distance?? That is kinda how I saw it.

would be nice to reverse the process - starting with the size of a postcard (at the 42-times stacked tower to the moon: 40 times = a normal sheet of printing paper) - 37 times is 1 meter squared and then you may use the chessboard analogy with the grains of rice (doubeling up on every square) - a stack of 32 - takes more than a squared kilometer - ending in the whole surface of the moon AND that of Africa to get the amount of ground required for your folding up game

.999 is not equal to 1. .999... is. Key is INFINITE number of decimal places. Easy proof is for sum of infinite geometric series with first term 0.9 and ratio 0.1 a1/(1 - |r|) = 0.9/(1-0.1) = 0.9/0.9 = 1

I usually love things like this, and I accept that it’s algebraically possible to prove. I’m even okay with the logic. But an infinite number is essentially undefined; it’s impossible to assign it a finite value without mutating it somehow. We can use a finite number to represent it, as we would in programming, but again, we’re only doing that so our program doesn’t run forever. Infinite $1 bills = infinite $20 bills? Of course! An undefined amount of a defined value is equal to an undefined amount of any other value. The denomination is just some agreed-upon unit of measure and has nothing to do with the value.

@@awAtercoLorstaIn. Agreed, these are all based on actually putting a quantity, at some point on infinity, which is not possible.

Actually, this was not very amazing to me since I learned that in school and it seemed absolutely logical to me. We learned that by multiplying and subtracting (not going into detail here but like Simon shows first with the 9 = 9x result) how to convert any given recurring number into a fractional number with finite numerator and denominator.

@geraldsmith6225 no it doesn't, lol 1.00000000 is 1 .999999999 is .999999999 :)))

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What happened to me is that I had to choose a singer for an opera and two ladies went to audition. So in the room we were four persons : these two ladies, the pianist and me (I'm a singer too). And it turned out that not only the two ladies were born on the exact same day and year (although not being related) but they also had the same birthday as me. So it was a 3 out of 4 with the same birthday and the same profession ! What are the odds...

Being born in the same hostpital has way different math than the shared birthday. There is a huge chance of sharing hospitals (or schools, for that matter) because...geography. It's a lot more likely in school that you have a classmate born at the same hospital as you than one 10,000 miles away since most kids in your class will be from the same neighborhood - it's probably more than a 99% chance (I'm not doing the math).

@@dkwannabe the point was, in a class of 31 students, 3 with same day birthday, randomly sitting side by side, strangers to each other, born within hours of each other, same hospital, sitting in birth order. There were no other pairs of birthdays in class

@@extra-dry I understood the point just fine, and all of it is pretty cool and all, except the same hospital part. In a community setting it would be extremely likely that 20 or more of your 31 were born in the same hospital.

a pedant (me :)) would argue that 1 tonne of feathers is still heavier since you would need a container to hold them on the scale. So you would have 1 tonne of feathers + a container. 1 tonne of bricks can be stacked so they don't need a container or any strapping so it is only 1 tonne.

@@mattyt1961Who says they have to be in a container? A large enough scale (bear in my we are talking hypothetically) could measure both. I raise your pedantry :))))

@@lfcbpro 🖖I salute you fellow pedant :) well played

@@mattyt1961 I was going to say, another pedant (me😉) would argue that would then be the tonne (X) + the weight of a container to contain them (Y), where as I was just talking about the weight of X. Valuable observation though fellow pedant 🫡

First of all, they're incorrectly charged $30. They don't just voluntarily give ever money. But regardless, math isn't lying, YOU'RE lying. You are correct, they all paid $9 each: $25 to the hotel and $2 to the bellhop which equals $27. The other $3 are the three dollars they were given back by the bellhop.

@ThatWriterKevin You are totally missing my point. Ever wonder how some accountants get away with stealing millions of dollars for years or how some rich people hide money from the government? They use this math to hide the money, use the same story but add a couple of zeros behind those numbers. The "books" will look correct on the bottom line with a cursory look and it is not until you dig into the numbers to find the truth. My point was to show that numbers can very easily lie to you, I am just demonstrating it using very simple math, to make it easy for the average person to understand.

Is that filling the Solar System to the orbit of Neptune, or Pluto, or the Kuiper Belt, or the Oort Cloud, or other distance?

@@backwashjoe7864 you know I don't remember, I think it was out to the Kuipler belt.

Something tells me that would be true of many things. The universe is mostly empty.

Not for a long while genius

Do you know what the federal reserve is? There are many many people light-years ahead of you.

What I'm saying if it was public knowledge that one person or entity, aside from the US government, had access to infinite $1 bills, all current bills lose their value immediately.

The latter comes to over $10m. That being said, whilst from a mathematical standpoint you should take the doubling penny, if the million dollars was on the table in cash right now I’d still take the million. I’d probably just expect the person to stop honouring the doubling penny thing after a week or two.

Depends on the time you were born. You reach exactly 70 years at the time you were born on your birthday.

Example 1 had me confused and had me assuming that the one line parallel to it was the line itself, which made no sense. I came into the comments to see if anyone else had noticed example 2 at 10:40

One I don't know what it's 1 over (1/?). But it's still 1

@@TheKrispyfort no way, if you invite twins

The chances are 365!/(365^365). This is close to e^(-365), what is smaller than 10^-150.

That weird white circle that encloses an image of a long-eared rabbit? 🙂