42 is the new 33 - Numberphile
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Date: 2022-04-09
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Comments and reviews: 9
Brodie
I see where they got the 6 month estimate from. I did a small test to see how fast my laptop could just count to 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 (10-16) by just making it count to a high number and finding out how long it took. In C++, my laptop took about 12. 499 seconds to count to 10, 000, 000, 000 (10-10. Doing some basic math, I worked out that my laptop would take just over 144. 6 days to just count to 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 without even doing any calculations.
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I see where they got the 6 month estimate from. I did a small test to see how fast my laptop could just count to 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 (10-16) by just making it count to a high number and finding out how long it took. In C++, my laptop took about 12. 499 seconds to count to 10, 000, 000, 000 (10-10. Doing some basic math, I worked out that my laptop would take just over 144. 6 days to just count to 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 without even doing any calculations.
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John
I feel like Numberphile should have separate playlists for conjectures or investigations that have a purpose and those that don't.
Because I'm most interested in math when it's not just a party challenge, but instead has some purpose, and I just can't tell when looking at 1 of these videos from the outset.
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I feel like Numberphile should have separate playlists for conjectures or investigations that have a purpose and those that don't.
Because I'm most interested in math when it's not just a party challenge, but instead has some purpose, and I just can't tell when looking at 1 of these videos from the outset.
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Артур
What's the practical use of all those cubes? Tomorrow some wise guy will say: let's solve all equations like a5+b5+c5=k, and a whole host of mathematicians will work on that for another one hundred years using a thousand supermegacomputers. What's the point, guys! Come on, tell me.
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What's the practical use of all those cubes? Tomorrow some wise guy will say: let's solve all equations like a5+b5+c5=k, and a whole host of mathematicians will work on that for another one hundred years using a thousand supermegacomputers. What's the point, guys! Come on, tell me.
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TheLoneCabbage
My first thought on seeing the list - 1: 50, was that the sum of the digits of each number is a multiple of 3.
Looking deeper into this, is there some property in that that sum of the digits of a number divisible by 3 will also be divisible by 3? What's going on here?
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My first thought on seeing the list - 1: 50, was that the sum of the digits of each number is a multiple of 3.
Looking deeper into this, is there some property in that that sum of the digits of a number divisible by 3 will also be divisible by 3? What's going on here?
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PrivateSi
Pointless mathematics should be kept well away from supercomputers. but it's an uber-liberal waster's world, Mega-Wasters. About as much use a 'Climate Change Modelling'. If it was in any way tax funded the travesty would be multiplied by itself. by itself.
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Pointless mathematics should be kept well away from supercomputers. but it's an uber-liberal waster's world, Mega-Wasters. About as much use a 'Climate Change Modelling'. If it was in any way tax funded the travesty would be multiplied by itself. by itself.
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matthew
In the alphabet, A=1 and b=2, what letter flips to form another? M flips to form W. M is the 13th letter and W is the 23rd. Respectively, the y are the 6th and 9th prime numbers. Thus, what number flips to form another? Why it is the numbers 6 and 9.
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In the alphabet, A=1 and b=2, what letter flips to form another? M flips to form W. M is the 13th letter and W is the 23rd. Respectively, the y are the 6th and 9th prime numbers. Thus, what number flips to form another? Why it is the numbers 6 and 9.
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Kevin
-It's not really obvious what the right conjecture should be. -
. Screw that. There is no -right- conjecture.
My serious question is, what is the significance of this --possible-- fact? What does it amount to? Our universe has countless entropy.
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-It's not really obvious what the right conjecture should be. -
. Screw that. There is no -right- conjecture.
My serious question is, what is the significance of this --possible-- fact? What does it amount to? Our universe has countless entropy.
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jake
It feels like the number 42 has been following me for around 3 years now. It shows up in really strange and meaningful times of my life. I've seen it alot tonight and ended up here. Do numbers ever -follow- people? What is happening
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It feels like the number 42 has been following me for around 3 years now. It shows up in really strange and meaningful times of my life. I've seen it alot tonight and ended up here. Do numbers ever -follow- people? What is happening
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numberphile
I love how all of this work goes into finding an answer, but even the guy who worked out a way to solve it doesn't much care what the answer is. -Yeah, I don't know what that is--877 trillion something. -
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I love how all of this work goes into finding an answer, but even the guy who worked out a way to solve it doesn't much care what the answer is. -Yeah, I don't know what that is--877 trillion something. -
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