Why 1980 was a great year to be born... but 2184 will be better

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

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  • @SeaUrchinZone
    @SeaUrchinZone 8 лет назад +4280

    I want a whole series of "Matt explaining objects to the people of 2184"

  • @AlanKey86
    @AlanKey86 9 лет назад +3909

    I'd love to see more of Matt just explaining present day stuff to people of the future!
    The series could be called:
    Just a MATTer of time

    • @ryanlindsey3931
      @ryanlindsey3931 9 лет назад +26

      AlanKey86 Boooooooooooooo

    • @stephendonovan9084
      @stephendonovan9084 9 лет назад +59

      AlanKey86 Ha, ha, very punny.
      Did you know that some people think punny is a pun and haven't yet accepted it as common vernacular at this point?

    • @AnthonyChmielewski_
      @AnthonyChmielewski_ 9 лет назад +29

      You actually made me laugh.. I never laugh..
      Well done.

    • @AnthonyChmielewski_
      @AnthonyChmielewski_ 9 лет назад +9

      You actually made me laugh.. I never laugh..
      Well done. XD

    • @blichiem
      @blichiem 9 лет назад +8

      AlanKey86 b00000m shakalaka

  • @Poma5oh
    @Poma5oh 7 лет назад +582

    "This is a switch, we actually had to touch things to change the environment" 😀

    • @Kira_7237
      @Kira_7237 4 года назад +20

      and this (picks gum from wall) we used this as sustenance. this is a basic food item that you can both use and attach things to vertical surfaces

    • @WerdFTW
      @WerdFTW 4 года назад +6

      @@Kira_7237 some people even find it insulting to use this food item as a piece of plastering

    • @SpiderMan-in9rl
      @SpiderMan-in9rl 4 года назад +2

      @@WerdFTW I, personally, find it kind of gross

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo 3 года назад +2

      @Spider Man So do I.

  • @KendrixTermina
    @KendrixTermina 6 лет назад +131

    "PARTIVS MATHEMATICVS"
    the illustrations for this one were solid gold

  • @DominoLarry
    @DominoLarry 8 лет назад +703

    Still you didn't even mention that 20+25 is 45 and the square of 45 is 2025.

    • @Borges1984eth
      @Borges1984eth 8 лет назад +45

      Clever

    • @pbsquilz
      @pbsquilz 7 лет назад +10

      DominoLarry yeah you're correct but the whole point was to be the square root of your age... that could work with anything like 2042+3 is 2945 which is the square of 45, but it makes it more special when your age is the square of that year, that's the point he is making. Hope I helped

    • @jasondicosmo9567
      @jasondicosmo9567 7 лет назад +28

      Also, 2+0+2+5 = 9 and 9 x 5 = 45

    • @jaunt9191
      @jaunt9191 7 лет назад +9

      It's what's known as a kaprekar number! I hadn't noticed until you said that though, well done!

    • @synovialpith
      @synovialpith 7 лет назад +3

      PBsquilz yeah he knows he's just saying that if you are 45 in 2025 not only will you be the year's sqrt but if you take 20 and 25 (as you would say twenty twenty five) and add them together you get 45, which would be your age

  • @ChessNetwork
    @ChessNetwork 9 лет назад +828

    I've been waiting 35 years to hear how great my age is.
    Thank you Numberphile! :D

    • @ViniciusGuitarGuy
      @ViniciusGuitarGuy 9 лет назад +7

      ChessNetwork I had no idea you were 35, Jerry. That is a pretty neat coincidence anyway.

    • @SnoopyDoofie
      @SnoopyDoofie 9 лет назад +2

      ChessNetwork So you're excited being a zero?

    • @thekkl
      @thekkl 9 лет назад +17

      ChessNetwork How am I supposed to get work done when Numberphile videos link to ChessNetwork videos? This is as deep a hole as Wikipedia!

    • @mrprototype438
      @mrprototype438 9 лет назад +1

      ChessNetwork
      Fellow 1980er here.
      -Brofist

    • @traduly1997
      @traduly1997 6 лет назад

      i want to be 30 but i hate 21 age now i am.

  • @yamingoat
    @yamingoat 8 лет назад +1854

    only 2180's kids remember quantum computing

    • @chunkymilkz2159
      @chunkymilkz2159 8 лет назад +51

      And cross dimension tag

    • @oldbirdwing9114
      @oldbirdwing9114 8 лет назад +12

      studies show that quantum computing will be irellevant soon

    • @famatu
      @famatu 8 лет назад

      +Aeon Klepto How's that?

    • @oldbirdwing9114
      @oldbirdwing9114 8 лет назад +3

      Fabio Matu in comparison from time in general soon could be any time in the next 100000 years XD BUDUM TSSSS... anyone?

    • @oldbirdwing9114
      @oldbirdwing9114 8 лет назад +4

      +Arcadefan 314 this IS a maths channel so.... you must accept numbers

  • @OrigamiTwist
    @OrigamiTwist 5 лет назад +46

    1980 baby here. Been feeling a bit rubbish to be turning 39 this year. Thank you for completely fixing my attitude toward aging (at least until after we turn 45). Epic.

    • @2Shy210680
      @2Shy210680 4 года назад +1

      1980 guy here too. Turning 40 tomorrow 🥳😱🥳😱

  • @jesusthroughmary
    @jesusthroughmary 9 лет назад +396

    1:30 I was born in 1979, and I literally started to make that argument to the screen and Matt shot me down mid-sentence.

    • @sumbloke1403
      @sumbloke1403 9 лет назад +7

      jesusthroughmary 79 is gold mate, the King of metals!

    • @simonbenoit6603
      @simonbenoit6603 9 лет назад +14

      jesusthroughmary As a 1979er myself, at least we can say we saw the 70's!

    • @lilituthebetrayer2184
      @lilituthebetrayer2184 9 лет назад +8

      Simon Benoit Kinda XD

    • @motionmovies
      @motionmovies 9 лет назад +4

      jesusthroughmary As a 1999er myself, at least I can say I saw the 90's!

    • @jesusthroughmary
      @jesusthroughmary 9 лет назад +1

      MotionMovies And you survived Y2K, lol.

  • @christopherweeks89
    @christopherweeks89 8 лет назад +667

    Can we just get a full video of you explaining today to the future like you were at the end

  • @ThatOneRandomGirl
    @ThatOneRandomGirl 8 лет назад +173

    He got so happy showing stuff around XD

    • @neogenzim1995
      @neogenzim1995 8 лет назад +40

      my favorite part really :) it would be hilarious if the future people watched it and were like: "yea... we still use all those things..." XD

    • @rwrunning1813
      @rwrunning1813 8 лет назад +3

      +neogenzim1995 It'll probably be the same stuff plus more. Oh, hello 2184.

  • @henryds_
    @henryds_ 7 лет назад +165

    Also, 2187 was the detention cell Leia was kept in in Star Wars: A New Hope.

    • @commoncoolchannel8588
      @commoncoolchannel8588 6 лет назад +13

      And the code in Finn's first name.

    • @thewarlord6529
      @thewarlord6529 6 лет назад +5

      Wait... maybe this was intended all along! O.O

    • @dozenazer1811
      @dozenazer1811 5 лет назад

      It should work the same with years 2079, 2178 etc

    • @okoyoso
      @okoyoso 5 лет назад +3

      There's also a sci fi book titled 2184

    • @sethflix
      @sethflix 4 года назад +1

      @@okoyoso That's a book filled with a lot eroticism if I remember correctly from reading it with my friend on his mother's nightstand in my youth.

  • @Orgazoid
    @Orgazoid 7 лет назад +661

    I'm from 2184. What are trees?

    • @notacat3044
      @notacat3044 7 лет назад +39

      2 perpendicular lines near eachother like | | that goes up for a then it has a oval shaped top that is green.

    • @moistcow812
      @moistcow812 7 лет назад +1

      dylan young umm same idk what trees are either

    • @Tsfury1
      @Tsfury1 7 лет назад +4

      LIER it says 1 hour ago

    • @penepleto1210
      @penepleto1210 7 лет назад +22

      dylan young So trees didn't make it to 2184 but PayPal did.
      What a mess

    • @megasauruss
      @megasauruss 7 лет назад

      they produce oxygen

  • @andrewchou3277
    @andrewchou3277 7 лет назад +803

    I will turn 45/2 in year 45^2
    How about that

    • @waffles6280
      @waffles6280 6 лет назад +67

      so in the year 2025 you will become 22 1/2?

    • @OGMasterPiece
      @OGMasterPiece 6 лет назад +26

      if he is born in say June yes.

    • @RenaxTM91
      @RenaxTM91 6 лет назад +38

      If he's born between 1. july 2002, and 31. june 2003 he'll turn 22.5 sometime in the year 2025

    • @43labontepetty
      @43labontepetty 6 лет назад +1

      AC 計算機 AC Calculator wat?

    • @ukatofarticus9046
      @ukatofarticus9046 6 лет назад +2

      I'll be 21 :(

  • @Chrnan6710
    @Chrnan6710 9 лет назад +262

    2000 is pretty cool. I was born on November 11 so I turned 11 on 11/11/11

    • @lights473
      @lights473 9 лет назад +2

      So you're 3 years old?

    • @yerwol
      @yerwol 9 лет назад +72

      lights473 Go back and read it again. It says "I turned 11 on 11/11/11", not "I was born on 11/11/11"

    • @Untoldanimations
      @Untoldanimations 9 лет назад +5

      14* lights473

    • @videotrash
      @videotrash 9 лет назад +51

      Chrnan6710 haha, you were once 11

    • @MissAllie0717
      @MissAllie0717 9 лет назад

      erraticbrain lol, does that make you ten or less than that?

  • @KleenerBro
    @KleenerBro 5 лет назад +180

    Comment from the future:
    How did they know we would party with giant cats in a truck?!?!?!

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 3 года назад +6

      relatable

    • @tihorjar8997
      @tihorjar8997 3 года назад +1

      Maybe they had a time machine

  • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
    @imveryangryitsnotbutter 9 лет назад +763

    The Gregorian calendar is a human construct with an arbitrary anchor point.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  9 лет назад +478

      I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter sssshhhh, don't ruin it for everyone!

    • @radioactivated
      @radioactivated 9 лет назад +57

      So is the unix epoch too

    • @RagePeanut
      @RagePeanut 9 лет назад

      I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter Was thinking exactly the same

    • @mickles1975
      @mickles1975 9 лет назад +9

      I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter I love your name :)

    • @MrFrostburner
      @MrFrostburner 9 лет назад +65

      I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter Look dude, most everything is human construct, doesn't mean you can't have fun with it. So just ignore the European Cultural Elitism and have fun with it.

  • @Uatemydoodle
    @Uatemydoodle 7 лет назад +193

    I really hope people from the future watch this video.

    • @eliswag
      @eliswag 7 лет назад +10

      Uatemydoodle lol f no this will become ancient

    • @yodaiam6996
      @yodaiam6996 7 лет назад +2

      +Doge we learn about ancient history though

    • @eliswag
      @eliswag 7 лет назад

      Everyone is now lol

    • @Nicolas-pw9eo
      @Nicolas-pw9eo 7 лет назад +2

      Yt will be shutdown

    • @OliverBatchelor
      @OliverBatchelor 6 лет назад

      The distant future, the year 2000...

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel 9 лет назад +436

    I laughed so hard at the credits! Matt, you genius!

    • @CalvinG973
      @CalvinG973 9 лет назад +52

      I love how he made it sound so scientific! xD "you can use this sustenance to attach things to vertical surfaces."

    • @mina86
      @mina86 9 лет назад +25

      Phoenix Films Fun fact: historians in the future will *actually* think it was food. ;)

    • @g-gamer4747
      @g-gamer4747 9 лет назад

      mina86 Isn't it gum? which is food...

    • @mina86
      @mina86 9 лет назад +1

      G-gamer Originating from plants is not sufficient to qualify as food.
      [edited to remove ambiguity]

    • @ihrbekommtmeinenrichtigennamen
      @ihrbekommtmeinenrichtigennamen 9 лет назад +3

      mina86 Salad? Fruits? Vegetables? Berries?

  • @TheRattlefinger
    @TheRattlefinger 6 лет назад +34

    That awkward moment when you look up to someone because he's smart, funny and handsome, and you find out through a math example that you're older than him... I already feel my midlife crisis kicking in.

  • @Zahlenteufel1
    @Zahlenteufel1 9 лет назад +245

    They should freeze him and let him teach the 21st century to people from the future! He does so well!

    • @patu8010
      @patu8010 9 лет назад +3

      ***** Applied Cryogenics?

    • @5oofl3e
      @5oofl3e 9 лет назад +17

      They? The reptile government! I KNEW IT

    • @erikeva5491
      @erikeva5491 9 лет назад +7

      Zahlenteufel1 it is the 21st century...

    • @SnoopyDoofie
      @SnoopyDoofie 9 лет назад +5

      Zahlenteufel1 Maybe he IS in the future and teaching us and the joke is on us ;-)

    • @zeke1220
      @zeke1220 9 лет назад

      Erik Eva Yes, which is why he would be teaching current day things to people of the future...

  • @staxmaster62
    @staxmaster62 7 лет назад +137

    also 20+25=45 which makes it even better

    • @delve_
      @delve_ 6 лет назад +6

      The 45 likes are perfect.

    • @Connie_TinuityError
      @Connie_TinuityError 6 лет назад +4

      Max Hastings 20+18=38 and those born in 1980 turn 38 in 2018.

    • @chasegeissler4964
      @chasegeissler4964 6 лет назад +3

      The same goes for any year in 20XX since they turn 20 in the year 2000.

    • @IonKattTMCE
      @IonKattTMCE 6 лет назад

      Quick maths

  • @mostafaelshamy5400
    @mostafaelshamy5400 7 лет назад +338

    My prediction: He will have created 45 more parker squares by the time he is 45
    also i believe that his 45th birthday party should be decorated entirely with parker squares

    • @nigleloveclock
      @nigleloveclock 3 года назад +1

      lol
      Ye

    • @franchufranchu119
      @franchufranchu119 3 года назад +7

      My prediction: All guests will arrive slightly early or late, so it would be a Parker party

    • @quinn7894
      @quinn7894 2 года назад

      "It will be square themed" It will be parker square themed.

  • @GeodesicBruh
    @GeodesicBruh 6 лет назад +49

    3:28
    It’s time
    *sorry darling I have an headache*

  • @courtemanche437
    @courtemanche437 3 года назад +18

    I was born in the year 1999 and I'll be 49 years old (7 squared) come 2048. It might not be as significant as any of the scenarios mentioned in the video but it still definitely feels special to me. 7 is my favorite one-digit number and it's still an instance of being a square number of years of age in a year that's a power of 2, which has got to count for something, right?
    Also I can't believe it's been 6 years since this video was uploaded already, I miss 2015 so much, probably my favorite year I've been alive.

  • @BeastOfTraal
    @BeastOfTraal 9 лет назад +116

    People born in 1953 will be 63 in 2016 and the 63rd triangular number is 2016

    • @Redheisenberg
      @Redheisenberg 9 лет назад

      No one cares

    • @pierrestober3423
      @pierrestober3423 9 лет назад +19

      BeastOfTraal the same goes for people who will be born next year. They will turn 64 in 2080 which is the 64th triangular number

    • @saadibnasaadhusain
      @saadibnasaadhusain 9 лет назад +1

      ***** The nth triangular number is n(n+1)/2. Just input n=63 and you get 2016.

    • @jonathanrichards593
      @jonathanrichards593 9 лет назад

      BeastOfTraal Excellent! Let's hear it for us Triangular New Elizabethans! That's also pretty rare: it worked for people born in 1891 when they were 62, and will work for people born next year (2016) when they're 64.

    • @lin4cba
      @lin4cba 9 лет назад +1

      Rhodri Kraakman The irony since nobody actually cares about his comment instead. LOL

  • @ethanhoward389
    @ethanhoward389 3 года назад +32

    The ending was great. I could watch an hour of just that

  • @bibasik7
    @bibasik7 7 лет назад +593

    Archaeologists will dig up my MacBook Pro 200 years from now and be like... Wait, this can't even play RUclips videos in 512K?

    • @adriannanad4675
      @adriannanad4675 4 года назад +20

      Nah they'll did up your macbook and then chuck it in the bin.

    • @thatnerdoverthere2248
      @thatnerdoverthere2248 4 года назад +11

      That's if youtube is still a thing. Sh*t has really started hitting the fan lately

    • @archeaico7744
      @archeaico7744 4 года назад +2

      @@adriannanad4675 Think different

    • @anhbui-bc4ew
      @anhbui-bc4ew 4 года назад +1

      Maybe 1.024M (1000K = 1M)

    • @dontsubscribetothischannel9684
      @dontsubscribetothischannel9684 4 года назад +3

      You are factually incorrect.
      64k is actually 65,536 not 64,000 and that would mean its actually going to be 524k not 512k.

  • @iafozzac
    @iafozzac 9 лет назад +35

    My great grandfather was born in 1892, should go back in time and tell him that

    • @justmonica9253
      @justmonica9253 8 лет назад +1

      +iafozzac Why, did he not have his birth certificate? And how do you know when he was born if he didn't?

    • @iafozzac
      @iafozzac 8 лет назад +5

      Edward Harvey
      Are you serious?

    • @justmonica9253
      @justmonica9253 8 лет назад

      No. :)

    • @HiMom1311
      @HiMom1311 8 лет назад

      +Edward Harvey I understood your joke and enjoyed it. Don't let the haters get you!!

    • @Vanedis
      @Vanedis 8 лет назад

      +iafozzac I was born a century later, be sure to tell him that as well :D

  • @miamackk119
    @miamackk119 7 лет назад +152

    If you are seeing this in the future, well hi

  • @DINO92AVFC
    @DINO92AVFC 8 лет назад +45

    Matt explaining things to people from the future made me re-think my whole existence.

  • @arust5147
    @arust5147 6 лет назад +21

    When you turn 45 you go from a palindrome in decimal to a palindrome in binary (101101)

  • @14thtn35
    @14thtn35 7 лет назад +355

    i will turn 22 on: 02-22-2022 and i will turn 222 on 02-22-2222, how bout that!?!

    • @shironage
      @shironage 7 лет назад +23

      SO you are 16 years old!

    • @olivernordin1594
      @olivernordin1594 7 лет назад +21

      You won't turn 222 liar

    • @bradcopeland9485
      @bradcopeland9485 7 лет назад +4

      iBuilder might do 🤣🤣

    • @14thtn35
      @14thtn35 7 лет назад +27

      iBuilder eventually i will, wether i still live to se is the question

    • @Gadget622
      @Gadget622 7 лет назад +6

      +iBuilder Except he would if he lived that long, and with continuing advancement of medicine, I wouldn't be surprised

  • @levmccor54
    @levmccor54 8 лет назад +476

    2025
    20
    +
    25
    =
    45

    • @Xboxplayerpinoy
      @Xboxplayerpinoy 8 лет назад +1

      +Suddenly Pineapples! is it sqaures

    • @JacksonDavis
      @JacksonDavis 8 лет назад +2

      +Xboxplayerpinoy no not all squares are Like that

    • @MrOperettalover
      @MrOperettalover 8 лет назад +6

      If there exist uninteresting integers, then it must be one smallest one, which makes this number interesting. Thus, the smallest uninteresting can not exist.

    • @DiziCone
      @DiziCone 8 лет назад +5

      +LDMc Illuminati Illuminati Illuminati

    • @TravisCollierMath
      @TravisCollierMath 8 лет назад +1

      +DiziCone illuminati confirmed

  • @mikeshaver-miller745
    @mikeshaver-miller745 8 лет назад +82

    2184 would be a terrible year to be born, if mass effect is to be believed...

    • @CSSuser
      @CSSuser 8 лет назад +5

      :D made my day.
      I was born exactly 200 years too early, damn it!

    • @--Amal--
      @--Amal-- 7 лет назад +2

      D r . Manhattan 1984?

    • @CSSuser
      @CSSuser 7 лет назад

      Useless_Person_ 97
      indeed

    • @JohnSmith-kv3eo
      @JohnSmith-kv3eo 7 лет назад +2

      Useless_Person_ 97 1984? even worse

  • @JH-ic6zb
    @JH-ic6zb 5 лет назад +125

    1980 is allso nice to be born bacause you can easily calculate your age from the current year.
    2019 => 20+19 = 39
    2025 => 20+25 = 45
    In the 00's you could just leave out the zeros, 2009 => 29.
    Best year to be born.

    • @trgtheredstoneguy3990
      @trgtheredstoneguy3990 5 лет назад +37

      The year 2000 might be the best because you can just leave out the thousands place! So in the year 2019, you are 019 years old! Or in the year 2100, You are 100!

    • @subscribefornoreason542
      @subscribefornoreason542 5 лет назад +13

      Hold my bear.
      I was born in 2000!

    • @general5503
      @general5503 5 лет назад +9

      No way dude! Who knew that calculating with round numbers is easier than calculating with non round numbers?

    • @ankitaagrawal5562
      @ankitaagrawal5562 4 года назад +1

      @@trgtheredstoneguy3990 For a certain period of time in the year, this rule is not gonna imply.

    • @TheSonicPerson
      @TheSonicPerson 4 года назад

      @@subscribefornoreason542 same here

  • @HackThePlanetNow
    @HackThePlanetNow 8 лет назад +12

    I was born in 1980 and now I have a reason to look forward to being 45 thanks

  • @AshliSincere
    @AshliSincere 8 лет назад +395

    ~~~WHO WATCHING IN 2184?~~~

    • @AtLeastK
      @AtLeastK 8 лет назад +18

      +The Snorlax Empire gonna be waiting a while for those replies.

    • @gitgudnub443
      @gitgudnub443 8 лет назад +10

      +The Snorlax Empire gonna come back in 168 years just to answer that

    • @smartin9019
      @smartin9019 8 лет назад +5

      +The Snorlax Empire ME *Sets a timer to comment 168 more years*

    • @mitchelljack217
      @mitchelljack217 8 лет назад +2

      +The Snorlax Empire me

    • @smartin9019
      @smartin9019 8 лет назад

      Mitchell Jack Phhft, no not you,

  • @twolonet1118
    @twolonet1118 8 лет назад +126

    In the year 2026 my dad will turn 2^6 years old. he was born in 62. now THATS awesome :D

  • @Magnus_Deus
    @Magnus_Deus 5 лет назад +36

    2184 is so mysterious that it is filled with Cheshire cats. _w h a t ._

  • @TheArezmendi
    @TheArezmendi 8 лет назад +83

    I was born in 2185 :/

    • @cjeam9199
      @cjeam9199 8 лет назад

      TheArezmendi that's a clever trick

    • @wayneglensky961
      @wayneglensky961 7 лет назад

      TheArezmendi hello sure it is 2017 future people we live I. today

    • @ChloekabanOfficial
      @ChloekabanOfficial 7 лет назад +1

      TheArezmendi No, you wasn't.

  • @flikkie72
    @flikkie72 8 лет назад +7

    The animation in this one cracked me up, bravo!

  • @Zanek_power
    @Zanek_power 8 лет назад +18

    Hello from the past, we have dank memes in 2016. What a time to be alive!

  • @1mfilms
    @1mfilms 5 лет назад +49

    For people of the future...
    2181 = no
    2182 = no
    2183 = no
    2184 = okay RUclips recommendations!
    (btw... I hate who ever first made this overused comment!)

  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  9 лет назад +104

    Support Numberphile on Patreon: www.patreon.com/numberphile
    You can adopt the number of your choice: www.numberphile.com/supporters/

    • @PhilippeAllardRousse
      @PhilippeAllardRousse 9 лет назад +1

      Numberphile Thank you for this video. Any lagniappe video with this one?

    • @fs54nd0rn4
      @fs54nd0rn4 9 лет назад

      Nice Show Today (29 June) for the 500 pupils including me.

    • @Theraot
      @Theraot 9 лет назад +1

      Numberphile Now I want to see all the usual guests to numberphile and sixty symbols make videos for the future (and Poliakoff too).

    • @deusEXmachinaV42
      @deusEXmachinaV42 9 лет назад +1

      ***** I'm missing the deadline by a month either way.

    • @TylerMatthewHarris
      @TylerMatthewHarris 9 лет назад +2

      ***** Yeah but then you just give ammunition to all of the pro-life idiots so while I laugh at your joke, no bueno

  • @Rayer24
    @Rayer24 7 лет назад +110

    I hope i'll make it to 2100 #99

  • @jaydenrise7186
    @jaydenrise7186 8 лет назад +89

    1999 was a great year to be born in because Prince had to write a song about it 17 years before that.

  • @davidanghelina5196
    @davidanghelina5196 5 лет назад +13

    I'm From The Future (October 2019) And You Didn't Do A Whole Video Explaining Things From The Past To People In 2184 Like I Wanted You To.

  • @danieledgmon4260
    @danieledgmon4260 8 лет назад +15

    I was born in 2184... the same year they invented the time machine O_o

  • @danielbabbage7818
    @danielbabbage7818 9 лет назад +4

    Nice to see Matt back, he always makes top quality stuff with a great dose of dry humour

  • @marmiteghost
    @marmiteghost 9 лет назад +156

    2184? (exaggerated sigh) born in le wrong generation *again*

    • @nickpatella1525
      @nickpatella1525 9 лет назад +26

      anon03030605 again?

    • @m8e
      @m8e 9 лет назад +1

      Jerry Fielder Not born again, wrong again.

    • @LinesAndPolygons
      @LinesAndPolygons 9 лет назад +16

      anon03030605 but born just in time to browse dank memes

    • @trollghostol
      @trollghostol 9 лет назад

      LinesAndPolygons le maymay :^)

    • @inkolore2
      @inkolore2 9 лет назад +4

      anon03030605 But ... you have witnessed early internet, isn't that great ?

  • @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
    @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker 5 лет назад +5

    This is brilliant! I am totally going to have a square party for myself when the time comes for me in that same year. Of course I will need to bribe one other person to be at this party so that there will be two of us. Can’t have a square party with one attendee.
    I will have to start looking around soon for someone to bake the infinitely thin square cake though. I may have to settle for Klein cupcakes.
    Let’s see… A Mobius red carpet at the front door, which of course just keeps bringing you back to the front door no matter how far you walk.

    • @UnknownRager96
      @UnknownRager96 2 года назад +1

      I hope you have 16 people at your birthday

  • @h1k4r15
    @h1k4r15 7 лет назад +341

    Harry Potter was born in 1980...
    :O O_o

  • @mrnicomedes
    @mrnicomedes 9 лет назад +4

    The animations! And the talking to the people in the future!! This video was maybe a bit light on the math(s), but it was heavy on awesome! Thanks!

  • @MrBWeather
    @MrBWeather 9 лет назад +8

    I just want to see a whole video of Matt Parker describing our life to people in the future.

  • @markgriffin8186
    @markgriffin8186 7 лет назад +6

    I was born in 1980 too, this is a great little fact to know. My favourite part of it so far has been since the year 2000 you can take the left two digits and right to digits to get my age. Not as complicated as this but it should prove useful as I get older and my memory goes about how old I am.

    • @divyam7037
      @divyam7037 2 года назад

      Bruh

    • @dodekaedius
      @dodekaedius 2 года назад

      If your calculation skills don't decrease

  • @simonova90
    @simonova90 9 лет назад +14

    He's my favourite speaker in Numberphile.

    • @lizardbaron3727
      @lizardbaron3727 9 лет назад +8

      But what about Dr. Grime?

    • @Ruminations09
      @Ruminations09 9 лет назад +2

      Lizard Baron Both James and Matt are great. I find it blasphemous to insinuate that one is better than the other.

    • @simonova90
      @simonova90 9 лет назад

      ***** Mission accomplished, I guess

  • @AgglomeratiProduzioni
    @AgglomeratiProduzioni 9 лет назад +4

    Thanks for the history documentary, Matt! I actually felt like a 2184's student, and it was fantastic.

  • @villanelo1987
    @villanelo1987 9 лет назад +139

    Aaaaaaaaand now I can't stop thinking about people from the future reading my coments on RUclips and making fun of how stupid people used to be. :s

    • @Shifticek
      @Shifticek 9 лет назад +8

      ***** I doubt that will happen, youtube will probably have to start deleting videos to make space after certain amount of time if they haven't already

    • @wassiliftw
      @wassiliftw 9 лет назад +14

      Brodne y I don't think they would do that, in the future they will have exabytes of storage on their servers.

    • @shakalakadingdonglol
      @shakalakadingdonglol 9 лет назад +8

      Wassili K Zettabytes, huh? And the slowest internet connection on earth will be 200 GB per second probably. Now, people struggle for 2 MB per second

    • @Mr_Doon
      @Mr_Doon 9 лет назад

      I've seen you before!

    • @villanelo1987
      @villanelo1987 9 лет назад

      Potato OX
      Who, me? Where?

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo 3 года назад +9

    There’s *_GOTTA_* be a Parker Square theme on that day 😆😅.

  • @pasunurusaivineeth3739
    @pasunurusaivineeth3739 5 лет назад +5

    I just can't express how much I LOVE THIS VIDEO!

  • @EddyProca
    @EddyProca 9 лет назад +9

    Can we just have a whole long video of Matt explaining present things to future people?

  • @mizzraika
    @mizzraika 9 лет назад +5

    I love how you just decide to go off into completely controlled madness and get away with it.

  • @pmarlier
    @pmarlier Год назад +2

    Just turned 43. Checking in to remember this video. I think this was my first Matt video. See you in 2 years!

    • @pmarlier
      @pmarlier 7 месяцев назад

      @pmarlier Just turned 44. You still remember this video. You pre-ordered Matt's new book. Your stan-dom definitely started with this video. See you next year!

  • @kariminOo
    @kariminOo 6 лет назад +8

    Actually there is a more awesome date to be born at which is 1st december 1999.......what special about it is that the current date today is my age in years and months and days (and of course you have to remove the 20 in the years but you get the point)

  • @wsabcha
    @wsabcha 8 лет назад +12

    he gets so excited about math and i love it so much. XD

  • @kylematthews5438
    @kylematthews5438 5 месяцев назад +5

    Date's fast approaching, someone better remind him!

  • @colejw2007
    @colejw2007 2 года назад +2

    the only problem with matt getting excited about the fact that he'll be the square root of the year is that his birthday is dec 22.
    so he'll only experience it for the last 10 days (the last ~2.7% of the year) versus lets say someone born earlier in that year.
    still pretty cool though

  • @AAC-qd2vn
    @AAC-qd2vn 7 лет назад +782

    I think the best year to be born is 6969.

  • @nvrguru22
    @nvrguru22 8 лет назад +31

    Those parties are lit

  • @pietandersen6120
    @pietandersen6120 7 лет назад +7

    imagine being born a second after midnight on january first 1980

  • @hetgenie
    @hetgenie 2 года назад +2

    My daughter is born on May 7th 2017 : 5/7/2017 -- 2017 is a prime and so are 5 and 7. So that's a nice mathematical birthdate too.

  • @Penguin_Tree
    @Penguin_Tree 8 лет назад +4

    i got an ad for a watch and there was a lot about climbing mountains. perfect ad for before a brady video

    • @nisoe860
      @nisoe860 8 лет назад +2

      Nice profile picture :P

  • @uras_
    @uras_ 8 лет назад +47

    Whos watching in 2184?

    • @aa-tl3jm
      @aa-tl3jm 8 лет назад

      +CrazyCrafter672 mhm

    • @PikachuJamaa
      @PikachuJamaa 8 лет назад +5

      im watching in 6172 sorry

    • @thevideoguys6703
      @thevideoguys6703 7 лет назад

      Ludwig Van Bethoven I was born the same year as you

  • @kuskus_th13
    @kuskus_th13 8 лет назад +40

    0:57 captions:
    2025, which is 45 squid!
    SQUID?!

  • @quinn7894
    @quinn7894 4 месяца назад +5

    Matt Parker! We're almost at 2025!

  • @bar10dr
    @bar10dr 8 лет назад +10

    If anyone reads this in 2184, please let me just tell you how envious I am.. I hope. Do we have hover boards yet? I hope we solved that whole death thing by now.

    • @leonliangg
      @leonliangg 8 лет назад +3

      also, cure for cancer yet?

    • @clancywiggum3198
      @clancywiggum3198 8 лет назад +3

      Cure for cancer is a subset of solving the death problem.

    • @jolinadilan677
      @jolinadilan677 7 лет назад

      If theres a cure for cancer there may have already found a medicine to prevent it to the point where noone knows what it is. However theres still a possibility that nothing would change and they will also tell the time using something on a wall rotating and uses a battery that stops working every once in a while.

  • @TheMrYakobo
    @TheMrYakobo 8 лет назад +4

    This was truly the most unserious Numberphile I've ever seen

  • @CrowleyBlack2
    @CrowleyBlack2 7 лет назад +77

    Well, I'm just happy to be born in the 20th century. Even know that I didn't know much about the 20th century since I was two in 1999 but I'm still happy to be born with other people who were born in the 20th century.
    Now. Let's just hope to see a few people who were born in the 20th century will be still alive from the 22nd century. But I don't think if I will be there. Infact I would be gone by then. Because of my health problem. But who knows!

    • @sahibjot01
      @sahibjot01 7 лет назад +5

      PopFizzy yep who knows! '98 here

    • @demis215
      @demis215 6 лет назад +1

      2000s maybe

    • @unoriginal1086
      @unoriginal1086 6 лет назад +1

      PopFizzy what do you have?

    • @littlechickeyhudak
      @littlechickeyhudak 6 лет назад +1

      I think it's just cool being alive around the turn of the millennium! It's only happened twice since we've started counting years!

    • @csnoot
      @csnoot 6 лет назад

      "I'm still happy to be born with other people who were born in the 20th century."
      What of course people were born in the 20th century

  • @julienguieu5636
    @julienguieu5636 Год назад +1

    One of the very best episodes ever! Gutted that I missed 1980 by a couple of years though... what were my parents waiting for?!

  • @calvindang7291
    @calvindang7291 7 лет назад +41

    being born in year 0 must've been the best year.

  • @DrScrubbington
    @DrScrubbington 8 лет назад +5

    Only 2190's kids will remember

  • @AustinChubak
    @AustinChubak 7 лет назад +9

    I love how excited he is about this, lol

  • @chasemarangu
    @chasemarangu 6 лет назад +26

    Oh yeah? well in 2025 I will be 25 which is 2025−⌊2025∕100⌋⋅100 so there.

    • @thehiddenninja3428
      @thehiddenninja3428 5 лет назад +4

      waiiit...
      2025 - (2025/100) * 100 = 0

    • @somerandomashellperson7130
      @somerandomashellperson7130 4 года назад +1

      @@thehiddenninja3428 How would it? L⌋ =/= (), L2025/100⌋ = L20.25⌋ = 20, 20 * 100 = 2000, 2025 - 2000 = 25 (sorry for necroposting but kind of bothered me)

  • @bagelnine9
    @bagelnine9 Год назад +3

    Don't forget the year 2037, where on your 11th birthday, the year will be 2^x, where x is your age.

  • @DatHam
    @DatHam 8 лет назад +5

    celebrate it with the Parker square

  • @acebharath
    @acebharath 8 лет назад +8

    That sorry I have a headache burst me into laughter =))

  • @gitbuh12345qwerty
    @gitbuh12345qwerty 3 года назад +2

    I've officially learned everything I'll ever need to know in this lifetime. thank you.

  • @Gilorz
    @Gilorz 7 лет назад +62

    I wonder where this comment will go, in the future

  • @daniel123recinos
    @daniel123recinos 8 лет назад +8

    On 9/9/9 I turned 9 years old and the movie 9 came out

  • @georgediama
    @georgediama 7 лет назад +15

    an even better year to be born: 2000 in 2025 you will be 25 and so on...

    • @georgediama
      @georgediama 7 лет назад

      Are you 11?

    • @Gaclus
      @Gaclus 7 лет назад

      Late '99 - it works out almost as neatly, except for the last month of any given year.

  • @yogensood8293
    @yogensood8293 3 года назад +1

    The nerdy passion of this guy made this a great watch

  • @dc49154
    @dc49154 6 лет назад +3

    I was born in 1996, so when it's 2041 New Year's Eve Eve, we'll be celebrating mine. Ironic that it's quite close to New Year's.

  • @Jaunsh
    @Jaunsh 7 лет назад +13

    Ha I'm born in 2000 so every year, the year has my age in it (minus the 2000 for the people who are too literal) I'm 16 now and it will always be easy

    • @Henry-ih3jh
      @Henry-ih3jh 7 лет назад

      Yes No
      Me too!

    • @TrekkerLLAP
      @TrekkerLLAP 7 лет назад

      Yes No Same!

    • @FarCritical
      @FarCritical 7 лет назад +2

      Especially true if you're born really early on in 2000 (like early January-ish) like yours truly

    • @AstroMusic1987
      @AstroMusic1987 7 лет назад +5

      Mine's 2001. I have to do that AND subtract an entire number off of it as well. So much work.

    • @lil_weasel219
      @lil_weasel219 6 лет назад

      But it doesn't work because you were born too late in 2000

  • @cooolbeeenz5438
    @cooolbeeenz5438 7 лет назад +55

    My 40th birthday will be on 1-23-45, so gg boi

    • @sithlordbinks
      @sithlordbinks 5 лет назад

      luckyyy

    • @aivah_1021
      @aivah_1021 5 лет назад +1

      Mine will be 10/21/43

    • @TakeMeOffYourMailingList
      @TakeMeOffYourMailingList 5 лет назад +4

      There aren't 23 months in a year?

    • @aivah_1021
      @aivah_1021 5 лет назад +1

      @@TakeMeOffYourMailingList it goes month/day/year so January 23rd 2045

    • @xAffan
      @xAffan 4 года назад +3

      @@aivah_1021 nah its day/month/year
      1/28~31/365.4

  • @benharrykirk2824
    @benharrykirk2824 6 лет назад +15

    2:45 "The Flatland Guy"
    Nice Cosmos reference Brady.

  • @Gt3ricky
    @Gt3ricky 8 лет назад +29

    I turned 12 on 12/12/2012.

    • @lukeberryarchive
      @lukeberryarchive 8 лет назад +11

      +Miles Peet it was actually 12/21/2012, according to the Mayan calendar

    • @nh-a6713
      @nh-a6713 8 лет назад

      you can convert....

    • @nh-a6713
      @nh-a6713 8 лет назад

      also it does use gregorian years and days because those are just natural phenomenon and are universal

  • @JakubS
    @JakubS 7 лет назад +13

    teaching people in the future how to use a switch XD

  • @ckmishn3664
    @ckmishn3664 8 лет назад +11

    Obviously the best year to be born was 1 B.C. That way you turn 1 in year 1 (there was no year 0 which can mess some things up), and 1 to any power is 1, so you are simultaneously in every root or your age.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 8 лет назад

      Patrick Wise true...

    • @arch4ngel
      @arch4ngel 8 лет назад

      Patrick Wise xD

    • @ckmishn3664
      @ckmishn3664 7 лет назад

      "medieval" usually refers to the period from the 5th to the 15th century.

    • @duckynatalie
      @duckynatalie 7 лет назад

      Or you could be born in 2000, which is convenient, which I missed by 5 months :(

    • @CavanHomer
      @CavanHomer 7 лет назад

      I was born New Year's Day 2000

  • @quinn7894
    @quinn7894 2 года назад +1

    If someone born in 2352 turns 49, the year would be 2401 which is 49^2.
    But if someone born in 2394 turns 7, the year would also be 2401 which is 7^4.
    There are lots of years like this where two people born in different years would turn a root of some current year, this is just the first that will occur after now.