Apocalyptic Numbers - Numberphile

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  7 месяцев назад +47

    See all three videos in this Apocalyptic Trilogy - bit.ly/ApocalypticTrilogy

    • @alanzyoutube
      @alanzyoutube 7 месяцев назад

      These big number videos with Tony are the best ones, We need a video of something like Graham's number, Tree 3, Gama Zero, Arrow, Factorial & Rayo's number. G↑ x T3↑ x Γ0↑ x ↑ (number of arrows is ↑) x ! (number of Factorials is !) x R↑ + 1 = Big Daddy Number!

    • @Defnotyeett
      @Defnotyeett 7 месяцев назад

      Hey, why do youtube views stop at 301?
      (ps: check the video)

    • @IDFpartyboi972
      @IDFpartyboi972 7 месяцев назад +1

      Much love from the IDF numberphile

    • @jaredletobestjoker
      @jaredletobestjoker 7 месяцев назад +4

      geometry dash

    • @johnjeffreys6440
      @johnjeffreys6440 7 месяцев назад +1

      The closest explanation I have found to explain why 666 is the number of the beast, is that it's symbolic of materialism. The carbon atom has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons.

  • @cmelonwheels
    @cmelonwheels 7 месяцев назад +168

    Any time I start to think I have a grasp on exponential growth, I see something like 2^157 Planck times = a few hours and 2^192 Planck times = 10 million years, and it breaks my brain again

    • @jamesknapp64
      @jamesknapp64 7 месяцев назад +11

      Well it's 2^35 times bigger, 2^10 ~ 1000
      Thus 2^35 > 32000000000 times bigger or 32 Billion times more

    • @THICCTHICCTHICC
      @THICCTHICCTHICC 6 месяцев назад +4

      Consider it this way -
      2^10 is damn near 0 compared to 2^11 and so on.
      In the same way that the difference between a million and a billion is pretty much just a billion.

    • @jaspermooren5883
      @jaspermooren5883 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@THICCTHICCTHICC your example is pretty bad though, 2^10 is exactly half of 2^11, as is any 2^x compared to 2^(x+1). Wouldn't call that basically nothing.

    • @juanignaciolopeztellechea9401
      @juanignaciolopeztellechea9401 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@THICCTHICCTHICC
      Ahh yes, 50 is basicaly nothing compared to 100/s

  • @arcuscotangens
    @arcuscotangens 7 месяцев назад +200

    I love hat animation. Implying that the last living creature in the universe doesn't die because of cosmic events destroying galaxies at a time, but simply because it's a bit clumsy.

    • @mudmug1
      @mudmug1 7 месяцев назад +12

      Stumbled just shy of reaching the peak of Mount Improbable

  • @publiconions6313
    @publiconions6313 7 месяцев назад +37

    Ill never forget watching Brady's interview with Conway - when Conway looks out the window and asks "i wish i knew whyyyyy".. in reference to the strange universe-implicating numbers in group theory.. why the monster and no more, why any of the sporadics at all... especially when we know symmetry has so much to do with fundamental physics. I love hearing Tony say "hey im nature, that's got something to do with me!"...

    • @jeffspaulding9834
      @jeffspaulding9834 7 месяцев назад +2

      RIP Conway. One of the few mathematicians that I've directly applied their work (Conway invented the current system for naming polygons).

    • @GarryDumblowski
      @GarryDumblowski 7 месяцев назад

      @@jeffspaulding9834 Wait, really? I'd have assumed it was way older, considering how long people have been doing math with higher order polygons like the constructions of the 17-gon and 257-gon.

    • @jeffspaulding9834
      @jeffspaulding9834 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@GarryDumblowski Well, it's sort of true and sort of not. People were naming polygons long before Conway, but the rules for doing so weren't consistent or well defined. Conway worked with someone named Antreas Hatzipolakis and took existing practices and codified them into one coherent system.
      Unfortunately, they posted it on a website that has since removed the page. I couldn't find a copy of it when I did a cursory search.
      Related, Conway also created the system we use for polyhedra. Wikipedia has a page for that one.

    • @GarryDumblowski
      @GarryDumblowski 7 месяцев назад

      Ahh, I guess that checks out. Reminds me a lot of how long it took pi to get a consistent symbol.

  • @samuraisecretary
    @samuraisecretary 7 месяцев назад +23

    "Seconds are arbitrary, let's use something fundamental"
    *exclusively uses base-10*

    • @Giantcrabz
      @Giantcrabz 3 месяца назад

      it's based on gematria

  • @babilon6097
    @babilon6097 7 месяцев назад +138

    It's math. We try things. Sometimes they're even useful.

    • @orang1921
      @orang1921 7 месяцев назад +20

      "I discovered this new property of ___. Oh, it turned out to be useful in some industry? Yeah... yeah, I meant to do that."

  • @atalbrecht
    @atalbrecht 7 месяцев назад +33

    The animations of the creature were so adorable! Thanks for the vid Brady!

  • @stevefrandsen7897
    @stevefrandsen7897 7 месяцев назад +16

    I enjoy Tony's presentations. @8:00 "Maybe this is where the last creature dies... Or it might have nothing to do with anything". Love the humility. Humility is a good trait to have for learning.

  • @davidgould9431
    @davidgould9431 7 месяцев назад +73

    Brady's comment about a power of two being all 4s was initially intriguing, but I think it's fairly easy to see why a power of 2 greater than 2 cannot be all 4s: the previous one would be all 2s and the one before that would be all 1s, which is odd and clearly not a power of 2.
    Edit: I should have said (instead of "a power of 2 greater than 2") something like "a power greater than 2 of 2" or, better I think, "2ⁿ, where n > 2". I appear to have caused some confusion and debate. Sorry, everyone.
    @hectorbector11 put it better (I summarise):
    2ⁿ = 4444…4444 ⇒ 2ⁿ⁻¹ = 2222…2222 ⇒ 2ⁿ⁻² = 1111…1111 which is odd, so not 2ⁿ for any n > 2.

    • @rjtimmerman2861
      @rjtimmerman2861 7 месяцев назад +11

      What about 2^2 boom gotcha

    • @Henrix1998
      @Henrix1998 7 месяцев назад +1

      22^2 isn't 444 for example, I think your logic is flawed.
      Btw, √444444 is 666.666. For every 2n amount of 4s the result is n.n 6s.

    • @hectorbector11
      @hectorbector11 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@Henrix1998 By previous power of two he means 2^(n-1). When you go down one power in this way, you are dividing by the base, 2 in this case. 4444/2=2222.
      So the hypothetical power of 2^n = all 4s
      requires a 2^(n-1) = all 2s
      and 2^(n-2) = all 1s.
      This last one is clearly impossible, because there are no odd powers of 2.

    • @lunardoesmusic
      @lunardoesmusic 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@hectorbector11 Well, no odd powers other than the trivial 2^0, which makes 2^2 the only power of 2 whose digits are all 4s.

    • @davidgould9431
      @davidgould9431 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@rjtimmerman2861 I said "a power of 2 greater than 2." Now (knowledge bomb coming up), 2 isn't greater than 2. What was it? Boom, gotcha. Was that it?

  • @DaveLeCompte
    @DaveLeCompte 7 месяцев назад +38

    @13:53 Will there not be a number where the expansion is all fours?
    2^2 = 4
    QED

  • @sh1sh1maru
    @sh1sh1maru 7 месяцев назад +79

    New Tony Padilla video? Count me in! Is that a goat's head on his sweater? Fitting!

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher 7 месяцев назад +5

      There was a Veritasium video that showed that the number that most people give for a random number is *37.* 6+6+6=18. 18x37=666 And 37 is the largest prime factor of 666

    • @martinchamberlin3359
      @martinchamberlin3359 7 месяцев назад +1

      it's the logo for AllSaints

    • @shortsornothing4981
      @shortsornothing4981 7 месяцев назад

      No. Allen solly.

  • @kiro9291
    @kiro9291 7 месяцев назад +7

    never have I felt so much emotion upon seeing a blue three-eyed creature

  • @Anon282828
    @Anon282828 7 месяцев назад +8

    "all 4s" divided by 2 is "all 2s", and "all 2s" divided by to is "all 1s" - an odd number larger than one cannot be a power of 2, so therefore there is not power of 2 that results in "all 4s" QED

  • @t.kersten7695
    @t.kersten7695 7 месяцев назад +23

    many years ago there existed T-Shirts with funny memes aorund the "number of the beast" - with prints like "667 - the neighbour of the beast", or "333 - half evil"

    • @KevFrost
      @KevFrost 7 месяцев назад +5

      What do you get if you dial 666 in the UK?
      An upside down policeman

    • @evangonzalez2245
      @evangonzalez2245 7 месяцев назад +1

      668 is the neighbor of the beast, 667 is across the street 😉

  • @harmanpreetsingh7848
    @harmanpreetsingh7848 7 месяцев назад +28

    Always happy to see Prof. Tony Padilla

  • @ismailshtewi8560
    @ismailshtewi8560 7 месяцев назад +2

    i love little, arbitrary mathematical questions like this that don't have any seemingly important application or anything, it's just people playing with numbers and seeing fun things pop up and running with it. you could use this sort of thing to write stories or create mythologies.

  • @ManInTheArena0
    @ManInTheArena0 5 месяцев назад +1

    "Too earthy, too human."
    - having defined the notion of 'apocalyptic' in base 10

  • @rosiefay7283
    @rosiefay7283 7 месяцев назад +10

    2:33 Such is his obsession with repeated 6s, he is interested in the decimal expansion of 2^192 ... but passes over the 4444 in that very same expansion.

    • @GarryDumblowski
      @GarryDumblowski 7 месяцев назад

      Now you could ask the same question but with 4444 and call them Powers of Death instead (because 4 is often associated with death)

  • @Luper1billion
    @Luper1billion 7 месяцев назад +21

    I feel like all of mathematics was founded on mathematicians just playing games with numbers

    • @cooltaylor1015
      @cooltaylor1015 5 месяцев назад

      Well,, before they invented numbers, they were playing games with compass and straightedge, but yeah. Basically.

  • @jonathandevries2828
    @jonathandevries2828 7 месяцев назад +15

    strange optical illusion @4:18, the background changes from a pattern to flat brown when the numbers are scrolling up it

    • @john-vincentsaddic6335
      @john-vincentsaddic6335 6 месяцев назад

      Ah I see why! if you pause it, the numbers have a solid brown background to them!

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid 7 месяцев назад +52

    "Apocalyptic Powers" sounds like the better video title than "Apocalyptic Numbers".

    • @video83046
      @video83046 7 месяцев назад +2

      Too clickbaity for this type of channel and it's seriousness towards the topics chosen I guess

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 7 месяцев назад

      @@video83046 why is it clickbait if it's literally the name of those numbers?

    • @soupisfornoobs4081
      @soupisfornoobs4081 7 месяцев назад +2

      It's numberphile, not powerphile

    • @drenz1523
      @drenz1523 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@soupisfornoobs4081 new channel: powerphile, a channel dedicated to powers?

  • @GarryDumblowski
    @GarryDumblowski 7 месяцев назад +3

    As soon as I saw the premise of the video my brain immediately jumped to "so is 0.248163264128256512102420488192... normal?", which I'd argue is a pretty good reason for doing silly math like this.

  • @BernardoMartins_
    @BernardoMartins_ 7 месяцев назад

    They spoke of 616 as the alternative and perhaps actual number of the beast.
    Planck’s length, the smallest possible distance in the fabric of reality, is 1.616 x 10^(-35) m.
    There you have it. Everything that has a size is fundamentally apocalyptic.

  • @anayagrawal6550
    @anayagrawal6550 7 месяцев назад +4

    4:56
    Tony: Let's do something fundamental, something that is universal across the universe...
    Also Tony: *Uses base 10

  • @jacksonstarky8288
    @jacksonstarky8288 7 месяцев назад +3

    Speaking of Planck time... a short series on Sixty Symbols about the Planck units, giving each unit its own video, would be fun to see. Especially if Tony is up for doing the whole series with Brady.

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid 7 месяцев назад +35

    5:41 you go to all these lengths to have a unit of time that's not man-made but then you apply it to something that relies on base 10. Let alone a book written by people of course.

    • @dianamelamet
      @dianamelamet 7 месяцев назад +4

      That's what I was thinking! Someone talking about numbers wants a "natural" unit. Ha!

    • @JT-xh9ev
      @JT-xh9ev 7 месяцев назад +7

      I think he just translated it into second. Since plank time is fixed you would know exactly how many fit in a second so it would me the same time wise just an easier number for people to understand

    • @patrickramos1748
      @patrickramos1748 7 месяцев назад +7

      Planck time isn't reliant on base 10, it's just a measure of time, the lowest measure of time. It's just equivalent te a certain number of seconds

    • @TimmehTRP
      @TimmehTRP 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@patrickramos1748 But whether a power is apocalyptic is base 10 reliant. So the transformation to time is not the problem, it's the source itself. Maybe we should use base 666 :P

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@patrickramos1748 exactly. But a sequence of 6s is.

  • @tsvtsvtsv
    @tsvtsvtsv 5 месяцев назад

    i must confess i particularly enjoy when this channel explores topics that skirt the line between recreational maths and numerology

  • @LittlePunnkk
    @LittlePunnkk 7 месяцев назад +1

    legends say Brady will never stop giving certain numbers groups with cool new names, and then asking professors about them

  • @elliuozaG
    @elliuozaG 7 месяцев назад +47

    4:30 He doesn't like seconds (based on an integer multiple of the duration of some atomic process) because they're man made, but this whole thing being base-10 centric is totally fine and not man made. Then picks Plank time, which is defined with like 2 significant digits.

    • @sakgiok
      @sakgiok 7 месяцев назад +9

      I think you're confusing time units with duration. The duration of the second is man made to suit our life on earth. The definition of the second on these atomic processes is just to make easy for everyone to use it with precision. The Plank time duration is a cosmological constant, not depending on any of our senses, or the movement of our planet, while is still expressed in seconds.

    • @rudranil-c
      @rudranil-c 7 месяцев назад +2

      The base doesn't matter really. 10 to the power 14 can be written in octal, hexadecimal, binary or any other base, it will still remain that long duration, how you put it on paper is just the representation of that duration.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@rudranil-c
      Having the digits “666” in the number is base-dependent, unlike the number 666 itself (that one is alphabet-dependent).

  • @FirHydrntsRFirEaters
    @FirHydrntsRFirEaters 7 месяцев назад +15

    "Let's use planck times since they're fundamental to the universe and not human centric"
    Proceeds to discuss 666 appearing in base 10 numbers, which are very human centric lol

  • @wv1seahawks
    @wv1seahawks 7 месяцев назад +1

    I think something similarly interesting is there’s gotta be a point where every power of 2^n after a certain value of n contains the number n in its digits. That’s the one I want to know lol

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo 5 месяцев назад +1

    14:00 Well, it can’t be all 4:s (other, than 4, itself, obviously); because that one will have a factor, whose expansion is all 1:s, which is an odd number; and therefore, definitely, not a power of 2 (again, except 1, itself, which is 2^0).

  • @Qbe_Root
    @Qbe_Root 7 месяцев назад +7

    Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobes in shambles

  • @ulob
    @ulob 7 месяцев назад +2

    That death of the last creature in the universe animation in the middle of the video 😂😂😂 what a gem

    • @ulob
      @ulob 7 месяцев назад +1

      Whaaaaat? It didn't actually perish

  • @aPictureElement
    @aPictureElement 7 месяцев назад +7

    Come for the maths, stay for the existential dread.

  • @Cosmic_Taco
    @Cosmic_Taco 7 месяцев назад +1

    This all breaks with any other base

  • @BytebroUK
    @BytebroUK 7 месяцев назад +1

    One 6th-form teacher (whom I shall adore forever for their attitude) told me "Maths is what people think is useful, but at the same time Number Theory is what people think is interesting" :)

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n 7 месяцев назад +237

    Reported for violating RUclips community guidelines / displaying apocalyptic numbers

    • @KWorldOfficial
      @KWorldOfficial 7 месяцев назад +3

      ok

    • @ernestoyepez5103
      @ernestoyepez5103 7 месяцев назад +33

      Still wondering if this is a joke.

    • @paullau2378
      @paullau2378 7 месяцев назад +3

      Didn’t ask

    • @HairyKiwiBalls
      @HairyKiwiBalls 7 месяцев назад +11

      Don’t worry, 666 is just a number 😊

    • @STEAMerBear
      @STEAMerBear 7 месяцев назад +6

      So is writing 2*3*3*37 also a no-no or do we only disallow the base-10 product. And do we consider that this number in base 7 is 342 base 10. And there it is…42…Douglas Adams was right!!

  • @orterves
    @orterves 7 месяцев назад +12

    4:26 "I don't like using seconds because seconds are a bit man made" - uses base 10

    • @Flinsyflonsy
      @Flinsyflonsy 7 месяцев назад +2

      Proof that we should use base 3, the holy trinity, since they would have no apocalyptic numbers.

    • @Nerdnumberone
      @Nerdnumberone 7 месяцев назад

      They use powers or 2 and a base 10 number system to look for 666. That's so very arbitrary. If this was some divinely inspired number handed to humans in our number system, it could be given in any convenient units. Seconds would be unlikely, as they are a relatively recent invention (within the last 500 years).
      Personally, I'm an atheist, so I don't believe that an iron-age book contains particular insight into the future.

    • @orterves
      @orterves 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@Flinsyflonsy and here I was thinking we should use base 7 to maximise the frequency

    • @Flinsyflonsy
      @Flinsyflonsy 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@orterves we can use unary and use 6 as the only digit.

    • @strixt
      @strixt 3 месяца назад

      Also proceeds to use seconds... hours... years... based on a number discovered by a man... who used base 10...

  • @OmateYayami
    @OmateYayami 7 месяцев назад +5

    I wonder how they check if number has 666 for super large powers. I thought that there is some trick with binary conversion and modulo operations but 2^n in binary is like 10^n in decimal, so base changes a lot in the digit composition.
    It would be interesting in seeing some relations between number base, exponent base and exponent power.

    • @t.kersten7695
      @t.kersten7695 7 месяцев назад

      something like 666 to the 666th power maybe?

  • @Goettel
    @Goettel 7 месяцев назад +1

    Take-away: even if religious crazies are right we have some time.

  • @Henrix1998
    @Henrix1998 7 месяцев назад +1

    I decided to fire up Python and check what is the largest power of 2 that does not contain all N digit numbers in it. Preliminary results are the following
    2^169 onwards contain numbers 0-9
    2^3500 onwards contain numbers 10-99
    2^53993 onwards contain numbers 100-999 (maybe)
    After that checking gets veery slow and I need to multithread the search properly

  • @sarahmcleary4603
    @sarahmcleary4603 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love this channel but often I get about 4 mins in before it’s over my head. This one I followed the conversation all the way through! Go me! However now I’m thinking about my relative insignificance in the universe.

  • @piemaster310
    @piemaster310 7 месяцев назад +1

    Maybe 2^29784 is when quantum fluctuations cause the matter in the universe self-assemble into a big bang situation

  • @ynes6658
    @ynes6658 7 месяцев назад +3

    A power of two cannot be made only of sixes as it would be divisible by three.

    • @ynes6658
      @ynes6658 7 месяцев назад

      A number of the form aaaaaaa in base B is expressed as a×(B^n - 1)÷(B - 1), so, to be a power of two, a needs to be a power of two and B^n = 1 + 2^m × (B - 1) for some m.

  • @danielw.4876
    @danielw.4876 7 месяцев назад +1

    My favorite part about 666 is that it is the 36th triangle number… 36, 3 6’s
    And triangles have 3 angles, 60 degrees each if it’s equilateral

  • @mischa7406
    @mischa7406 7 месяцев назад +1

    I ran some code and checked what the highest n was for p^n where p is every prime below 100, and n = 1-100,000. No other p has a larger n than 2. The larger p gets, the smaller max n becomes.
    The sums with the highest n all seem to average around 8300 digits in length, so I suppose that around that number of digits the chance that any random combination of p and n will contain three 6's consecutively approaches 100%

    • @geekjokes8458
      @geekjokes8458 7 месяцев назад

      i didnt understand the 2nd paragraph, what do you mean by the sums? are you adding the powers of p up to a "max n"? isnt it arbitrary? and summing is not what they're doing in the video anyway... "around 8300" just seems to be the point at which your computer gave up, and i also dont se how _that_ means the number should have the string 666

  • @krokkoguy
    @krokkoguy 7 месяцев назад

    There is a very natural topic to talk about that continues some of the ideas discussed in this video, in p-adic numbers, where large powers of numbers in a sense converges to a sequence of digits

  • @OrangeDrink
    @OrangeDrink 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great info on history 616 or 666 depending on source! Playing math with 7 is fun too

  • @drgetwrekt869
    @drgetwrekt869 7 месяцев назад +1

    the best one is the golden ratio: phi = cos(666) - sin(6*6*6) or something like this. amazing

    • @geekjokes8458
      @geekjokes8458 7 месяцев назад

      its just sin(666°)

    • @drgetwrekt869
      @drgetwrekt869 7 месяцев назад

      @@geekjokes8458 there are various versions. its funny as heck

  • @PhilbertDeZwart
    @PhilbertDeZwart 7 месяцев назад

    We can disprove Brady's idea about a power of 2 containing only 4's by looking at the last 2 digits. There are only a few combinations that occur in a fixed sequence and none of them are 44

  • @inlove4rock
    @inlove4rock 7 месяцев назад +1

    CUt the crap with the big bang, please, come up in the 3rd milenium...

  • @NickCombs
    @NickCombs 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'd hypothesize that the prevalence of nonapocalyptic numbers only approach zero as a limit as they get larger.

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman 7 месяцев назад +2

      You mean the prevalence of NON-apocalyptic powers of two approaches zero. The prevalence of the apocalyptic ones is clearly growing larger since it is thought all after 2^29784 might be apocalyptic.

    • @NickCombs
      @NickCombs 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@SgtSupaman yes, thank you

  • @Czxvkq
    @Czxvkq 7 месяцев назад +4

    I wish that recreational maths analysed digits of numbers in bases other than base 10

  • @cloudbaserapture99942
    @cloudbaserapture99942 6 месяцев назад

    Their are 216 primary colors on your screen monitor. It's called the web safe color palette. 6x6x6 = 216 = Plato's republic.

  • @idonotcomplyrevolution
    @idonotcomplyrevolution 7 месяцев назад

    666 itself isnt an apocalyptic number on its own, but is part of a sequence, such as: 111, 555, 666, 888 etc. will always sum either 3, 6 or 9. which we call tesla numbers or sometimes referred to as God's numbers.

  • @TheOwlman
    @TheOwlman 7 месяцев назад +2

    25.806975801127880315188420605149 the root of all evil, one of my favourites among so many 666 related jokes, though 664 the neighbour of the beast (at least generally in the UK) comes a close second.

  • @Matthew-bu7fg
    @Matthew-bu7fg 7 месяцев назад

    I was in high school from 2005 to 2010 and I remember the rumours that the world would end on 6th June 2006. What memories.

  • @jimmyzhao2673
    @jimmyzhao2673 7 месяцев назад +1

    This would be a good video during Halloween.

  • @nadionmediagroup
    @nadionmediagroup 7 месяцев назад

    That final Planck number is almost irrelevant due to the vast size of the number. It’s hard to even comprehend.

  • @dyerseve3001
    @dyerseve3001 7 месяцев назад

    "Stand back, I have powers... apocalyptic powers!" Holds out a long strip of paper.

  • @alanzyoutube
    @alanzyoutube 7 месяцев назад +2

    These big number videos with Tony are the best ones, We need a video of something like Graham's number, Tree 3, Gama Zero, Arrow, Factorial & Rayo's number. G↑ x T3↑ x Γ0↑ x ↑ (number of arrows is ↑) x ! (number of Factorials is !) x R↑ + 1 = Big Daddy Number!

  • @RobLarsen
    @RobLarsen 7 месяцев назад +1

    Everything about this one is great

    • @StefanReich
      @StefanReich 7 месяцев назад

      Powers of 2 that contain "666"? That is not even math, just completely useless

  • @_lalapop
    @_lalapop 7 месяцев назад

    for interesting far future shenanigans regarding the apocalypse, the last question by isaac asimov is pretty interesting

  • @daviddoran1682
    @daviddoran1682 7 месяцев назад

    Would love to hear more about the Vacumm of space collapsing and the Higgs becoming unstable. Is there any clues as to how the universe might become "interesting" again after all the black hole shave radiated away?

  • @AsterothPrime
    @AsterothPrime 7 месяцев назад +6

    Belphegor's Prime

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  7 месяцев назад +6

      Not today - but we’ve done that before - ruclips.net/video/zk_Q9y_LNzg/видео.html

  • @LordElijah
    @LordElijah 7 месяцев назад +2

    Today was my 666th day doing duolingo...

  • @EternalLoveAnkh
    @EternalLoveAnkh 7 месяцев назад

    How ironic... I just watched "Knock at the Cabin" last night, which is about the apocalypse.
    RJ

  • @stevemonkey6666
    @stevemonkey6666 7 месяцев назад

    Tony Padilla always provides a fun video 👍

  • @aarona3144
    @aarona3144 7 месяцев назад

    "And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, *both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark*, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name."
    - Revelation 13:15-17

  • @AgentM124
    @AgentM124 7 месяцев назад

    If something so "small" as 2^⁶⁶⁶ planck times already breaks any concept of time in our universe. 2^(busy beavers n) planck times is even more absurd

  • @MichaelGrantPhD
    @MichaelGrantPhD 7 месяцев назад

    There's a simple way to be sure that a large, multidigit power of two can never have all digits the same: because then it would have a factor whose digits are all one. And that's an odd number! A power of two has no odd factors.

  • @martinh2783
    @martinh2783 7 месяцев назад +1

    Next morings newpaper front page:
    Famous mathematician Tony Padilla says: "It's Maths, who cares!"

  • @aodtoxic
    @aodtoxic 7 месяцев назад +1

    Why not calculate the probability of a random occurrence of 666 in a sequence of random numbers.
    It will be possible to estimate the probability of if a large sequence exists with no 666 in it.

  • @illesizs
    @illesizs 7 месяцев назад +2

    How come *seconds* aren't allowed, but *base 10* is?

  • @lionbryce10101
    @lionbryce10101 7 месяцев назад

    There's also the base. The prime you're using, the power, and the base you're in

  • @enteradj
    @enteradj 4 месяца назад

    This is crazy - utterly random maths. I like it :D

  • @sumarexl
    @sumarexl 7 месяцев назад +5

    666 is the number of the Sun. 108 is the number of the Moon.

  • @SubtleForces
    @SubtleForces 7 месяцев назад

    To get all 4s with the n-th power of 2, the n-2nd power would have to be all 1s and there can not be a 1 as the last digit in powers of two, so the answer to Brady's question is that it can't be done with 2 as a seed. But it feels like my argument could be generalized to exclude a whole lot of seeds and a whole lot of outcomes for each seed. I wonder what the Tony Padilla could be doing with that...

  • @RUBBER_BULLET
    @RUBBER_BULLET 7 месяцев назад

    Reflections of my Walkman still staring back at me.

  • @FlesHBoX
    @FlesHBoX 7 месяцев назад

    wtf, I was taking some measurements yesterday for a thing I was designing and they added up to 666, and now today you guys put out a video starting out talking about 666...
    The world is coming to an END!!!

  • @TheCerebralOne
    @TheCerebralOne 7 месяцев назад

    you should do a video with Underwood Dudley on crank pseudomathematics

  • @Addonski
    @Addonski 7 месяцев назад

    As a person who lives 3 hours after this video released, i can confirm that this is not the end of this world.

  • @Indigo445nm
    @Indigo445nm 6 месяцев назад

    omg, the little animal with the three eyes is so cute!! what's up with that!

  • @JavierSalcedoC
    @JavierSalcedoC 7 месяцев назад

    Id love to see all the 1000 3 digit combination last "pure power" and see the variation

  • @02_aldebaranrahmanadhitya95
    @02_aldebaranrahmanadhitya95 7 месяцев назад +1

    Excited to watch!!

  • @nopetuber
    @nopetuber 7 месяцев назад

    You can't have a power 2^n made of only 6s because then 2^n-1 would be half, so made of only 3s, which would be an odd number (impossible)

  • @orphanedsignal
    @orphanedsignal 7 месяцев назад

    thank you yet again!

  • @gtziavelis
    @gtziavelis 7 месяцев назад +1

    As we see, nerdiness and mathematical curiosity are fun, while superstition is not necessarily. 11:25 Who knew the savior has three eyes!?

  • @noclafcz
    @noclafcz 7 месяцев назад

    It is 200 years after the last nuclear war and we are writing the year 210 After Brady, Holy Founder of the Apocalyptic branch of mathematics!

  • @jacksonstarky8288
    @jacksonstarky8288 7 месяцев назад

    A question for Tony: How far past the black hole era (statistically) would the universe have to go in order to experience a Poincaré recurrence (assuming that such things are possible; this would make another interesting video topic for this channel as well) in terms of these apocalyptic numbers?

  • @kimsmoke17
    @kimsmoke17 7 месяцев назад

    This might be boring enough to close my eyes to fall asleep too. 😊

  • @My-Say
    @My-Say 7 месяцев назад +1

    What about a way to determine if reality is simulated? And then we would be faced with the philosophical question, would knowing it is true, would it devalue life? A simply string of three sixes appearing in any large number is not amazing at all. And if pi never ends, there must also be a string of 666 sixes somewhere.

  • @petrospaulos7736
    @petrospaulos7736 7 месяцев назад

    I guess he should mention how far has the search gone. This would help people to continue the search...

  • @ericherde1
    @ericherde1 7 месяцев назад

    10:41 I don’t know whether 2^29,786 is the largest non-apocalyptic power of 2, but I’m confident that there is such a largest non-apocalyptic power of 2, and I have a finite algorithm that could prove it with a sufficiently powerful computer. Unfortunately, this comment space is too small to contain the algorithm.

  • @ajsmith7619
    @ajsmith7619 7 месяцев назад

    You're right! This has nothing to do with anything.

  • @acaryadasa
    @acaryadasa 7 месяцев назад

    The first appearance of 666 in Pi starts at decimal place 2440.

  • @denverbraughler3948
    @denverbraughler3948 7 месяцев назад +2

    * Revelation [singular].

  • @miraadi97
    @miraadi97 7 месяцев назад

    Reported for predicting when RUclips is dying. 😂

  • @xyz.ijk.
    @xyz.ijk. 7 месяцев назад

    Well, that was cheery. Can we go back to son of tree or something like that?