I'm mega happy and feel honored to have participated in a so interesting project, making a video (english is not my first language, so that was an extra challenge for me). Also, watching and learning about so many fun MegaFavNumbers is delightful. Thanks for all the math community!
@@DuringDark: You didn't missing anything in the linked video. That only describes the infographic. What @This Is Just A Test was pointing out was that Hitler didn't learn from Napoleon's campaign and suffered the same fate trying to invade Russia in WWII. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
Why haven’t you been making any videos lately? I’ve been watching you since the beginning of high school around 6 years ago, it makes me sad that I can’t find any new content from you. Miss you James, when I saw your name in Humble Pi it brought back so many memories of the old numberphile days.
I really wanted to, but life has been kind of crazy. Prepping for teaching more remote lessons, and taking care of my son. For what it is worth, my favourite number in general is 1,000,003. It's prime! And my 3 year old son wanted to do a googol. Maybe we'll make them eventually.
Not related, but a high school student going on to a level this year here. You two are legends! Half of the reason I love maths is you two. Maybe one day ill ammass knowledge similar to you Dr Grime c:
Such an epic project, I watched roughly 60 videos so far and I'm aiming to have watched them all by the end of this year! I'm also very pleased to be a part of this project 😊
I am slighty behind, with about 35 Videos watched.. I still think mine is the best one *wink*, but I'll see about that when I am done with the whole playlist. Just noticed your name, fellow Yoshi/joshi ;D
I loved taking part to this huge experiment, making a video and watching other people's videos! I really hope there will be other experiments like this!
I really wanted to take part but I honestly don't have a favourite meganumber and I didn't want to just make something up. But if you want to do favourite number, favourite theorem, favourite equation or any other "fave" quest, I will be straight to the dodgy camera quicker than you can calculate Pi to one digit!
I have always wondered how the so plain sudoku game, has a mathematical proof of to have a minimum of 18 hints. This I have learnt from you kind of persons. Keep inspiring!
Awesome Idea, but how would you specify it? does the proof have to be the elegant/favourite bit, or can it be also just the versatility of the theorem? depending on that the answers would probably change. For the record, my favourite theorem is noether's theorem.
This project has most likely birthed the career of at least one future RUclips educator. It really does level the playing field when someone with barely a handful of subs can make a video, stick it on this playlist and get noticed. It provides that crucial first step.
How about favorite, or little known, but interesting theorems, equations or proofs thereof. Could include alternate/interesting approaches and/or tangential implications/results for well known theorems/problems. I guess the gist is to capture unique or personal perspectives, stuff you wouldn't necessarily see in the 'books' or on wiki pages, etc.
random fact, i found this channel while searching for "peanut butter jelly time" didnt know what the song was about just typed singing banana and got this as the first result, 8 years ago
I watched maybe two dozen and commented on many. I considered doing one but I couldn't think up a really good story about some number's properties (first prime over a million? Someone mentioned it in these comments! First Fibonacci number over a million? I shudda just picked something and ran with it), but that didn't stop some people! :D
didn't do a video myself, but it would mostly be "Graham's Number because it's the easiest to understand how to get there and how big it is" video over.
Dear sir James and sir Matt, I am researching on Riemann hypothesis for the last 3 years and successfully I have found a formula for 'a' in Zeta(a+ib) in terms of 'b' and some hard looking definite integrals which are in terms of 'a' and 'b'which I was not able to solve so I am challenging you to solve those integrals . I used Riemann xi function and Riemann functional equation for Zeta function to find the formula for 'a'. Please make a video on those integrals. Integrals are:- 1)integral from 1 to infinity of x^((a-2)/2)*f(x)*cos(ln(x)*b/2) + x^(-a-1)*f(x)*cos(ln(x)*b/2) 2)integral from 1 to infinity of x^((a-2)/2)*f(x)*sin(ln(x)*b/2) - x^(-a-1)*f(x)*sin(ln(x)*b/2) Where f(x) = summation from n=1 to infinity of e^(-(n^2)*π*x)
But I think finding values of a and b is not that useful. U gotta find the value of a and b where it is 0. Yeah there are multiple places where it can be 0. So at a specific solution where it is 0, so what variable u are using to point to different positions for the same solution
If you saw those last 3 videos related to SM64, my fault, lol. I suggested to the sm64 math community (this exists) to make videos for this for fun. I tried my best to pick something very math related, with its involvement in SM64 being more of an "excuse" to speak about an interesting math problem.
and we'll see 500 videos on planck's constant. If we limit to "less than 1 million" we'll only see number 7 as being their lucky number and pi and e and 2.
Actually my lates #MegaFavNumber is 3257840388504953787 Why? Well, it is the seed for pack.png in Minecraft. A very famous little image that people didn't know the seed to for a long time.
My MegaFavNumber is the semiprime 28222149 . It is a semiprime s = a *b (with a=3 and b =9407383) such that a.b , b.a , s.a , s.b , a.s , s.a.b , s.b.a , a.s.b , a.b.s , b.s.a , and b.a.s are ALL semiprimes! And DISTINCT! , eleven DISTINCT semiprimes! . Dots here mean concatenation. It would be a "perfect " result if b.s were also semiprime , unfortunately b.s is not semiprime : ( Does there exist a semiprime with greater results than this semiprime ?
I don't think that the fibonacci-Sequence can yield enough original ideas to make it interesting to watch /take part in it. And honestly I think that Fibonacci is overrated. It is barely special enough to compete against other quite interesting (mindboggling) ones.
@@sajrra yes, you may be right. I just remembered there was even a journal because it (or a similar dequence) appeared so often in real life, but it may be very common and not so interesting mathematically.
if we were to take 62643 ie = 3*7*19*157 and then take product of pairwise positive differences in the primes , we get that number OR also your number satisfies phi(n) = phi(n + 1) where phi is the euler's totient function
First I thought it could be some fancy factoring, and on trying it DOES "cleanly" divide by (1^1 * 2^2 * 3^3 * 4^4), but with 5^5 it breaks (although it works with 5*5 instead, but the rest is still somewhat messy then). So we know one thing that it's NOT! xD
@@Craznar The word "pseudoscience" almost had me gone :-P Anyway, biorhythms (anything with "rhythm", actually) sounds like it has to do with time, and if it's an amount of seconds, it gives a whole number of weeks (which is surprising in itself), equal to roughly 77.5 years, which is about an average human lifespan - obviously depending on country and so on - , which is where the word "bio" comes in. Am I getting any closer?
“See you later, calculator.” In a while, numberphile.
soon will be the time , James Grime
Don't you slumber, MegaFavNumber
someone lost their hair , after an partially correct square
If you can, Ramanujan.
@@JohnLeePettimoreIIIthat didn't rhyme,James Grime
But you won't get fried, atleast you tried
'my showbiz pal'- poor matt just got showbiz zoned.
I'm mega happy and feel honored to have participated in a so interesting project, making a video (english is not my first language, so that was an extra challenge for me). Also, watching and learning about so many fun MegaFavNumbers is delightful.
Thanks for all the math community!
Wonderful!
So many good people contributed to #MegaFavNumbers project. Quite reassuring to witness that there are still so many good people.
One of the best sequences ever. Thanks!
Doctor Grime, that's a very interesting infographic there behind you.
@Puvendran Pillay: See ruclips.net/video/3T7jMcstxY0/видео.html
@@arikwolf3777 but what does that have to do with hitler?! (Apologies if there was something I forgot/missed about hitler in there)
@@DuringDark: You didn't missing anything in the linked video. That only describes the infographic. What @This Is Just A Test was pointing out was that Hitler didn't learn from Napoleon's campaign and suffered the same fate trying to invade Russia in WWII.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
It was so great to participate, and to see how many people were interested, from the biggest channels to brand new ones:)
Why haven’t you been making any videos lately? I’ve been watching you since the beginning of high school around 6 years ago, it makes me sad that I can’t find any new content from you. Miss you James, when I saw your name in Humble Pi it brought back so many memories of the old numberphile days.
I really wanted to, but life has been kind of crazy. Prepping for teaching more remote lessons, and taking care of my son. For what it is worth, my favourite number in general is 1,000,003. It's prime! And my 3 year old son wanted to do a googol. Maybe we'll make them eventually.
Dr. Grime introducing the Parker pointer
science is the new 'yes we got talent' we never solved societys problems but hey , as long as u keep watching we can feel like jayz
Not related, but a high school student going on to a level this year here. You two are legends! Half of the reason I love maths is you two. Maybe one day ill ammass knowledge similar to you Dr Grime c:
Wonderful! Have fun in your A-levels!
Such an epic project, I watched roughly 60 videos so far and I'm aiming to have watched them all by the end of this year!
I'm also very pleased to be a part of this project 😊
I am slighty behind, with about 35 Videos watched.. I still think mine is the best one *wink*, but I'll see about that when I am done with the whole playlist.
Just noticed your name, fellow Yoshi/joshi ;D
I watched about 60, too... but going random here and there.
I should totally follow the playlist, so to watch them all!
If more than a million MgeFavNumbers had been submitted - the number of videos would be a MegaFavMetaMegaFavNumber ...
I can't believe it even now! I made a channel to participate 😀... Thank you for organizing such a project! I learnt something new!!
I made a channel to participate too! I'll have to check yours out!
11 months... Seems like the banana has stopped singing
Thank you for getting this challenge going! Glad I could be a part of it!
So happy to help form an interactive maths community on RUclips. Imagine the things we could all do!
I loved taking part to this huge experiment, making a video and watching other people's videos!
I really hope there will be other experiments like this!
Was great fun participating; thanks for hosting it! :)
Thank you for the motivation to make a real first video.. This was brilliant.
This was a great project, thank you! Really got us thinking about some intricate large numbers!
Thank you to all involved! I've absolutely loved watching them!!
I really wanted to take part but I honestly don't have a favourite meganumber and I didn't want to just make something up. But if you want to do favourite number, favourite theorem, favourite equation or any other "fave" quest, I will be straight to the dodgy camera quicker than you can calculate Pi to one digit!
mine is 5,318,008. i did a video on it but i couldnt find it in the playlist
Thank you for organising this project. It really got the Maths community together! :)
"See you later, calculator." I like this one.
Thank you for all of this!
You're amazing!! :D
My channel has never gotten so many views xD and it's such a fun video idea!
Also... Hi Matt and James :D you are two of my heroes ^^
It's a shame there weren't more than 1 million entries - then THAT number could be a MegaFavNumber.
amazing video as usual james! i get so much inspiration from your content to make my own videos, thank you :)
I have always wondered how the so plain sudoku game, has a mathematical proof of to have a minimum of 18 hints. This I have learnt from you kind of persons. Keep inspiring!
Actually it's us who should thank both of you for the great videos you make.
Best wishes!
I am proud of being part of it :)
Congratulations and thanks!
It was an awesome project...glad to be a part of it!
Thank you for setting this challenge for us!
Thank you so much for organising this. This was the encouragement I needed to actually make a video; would love to to more like this in the future!
What a fun idea! Thanks to you both for putting it all together! It would great to do something like this again :)
Idea: Favourite Proof or Theorem.
Mine is Fundamental Theorem of Simulation
I'll go with Rolle's Theorem, and more generally the Mean Value Theorem. www.xkcd.com/2042/ is exactly how I felt when I learned about the former.
Awesome Idea, but how would you specify it? does the proof have to be the elegant/favourite bit, or can it be also just the versatility of the theorem? depending on that the answers would probably change.
For the record, my favourite theorem is noether's theorem.
Irrationality of sqrt of 2.
This was a great series of videos. Thanks!
Thanks for the distraction. Much appreciated diversion maths guys. Enjoyed and well done
Was an absolute honour to be a part of it!
285 videos? Feh! You've got to keep going until you get a million and one videos.
Fred
yes!
This project has most likely birthed the career of at least one future RUclips educator. It really does level the playing field when someone with barely a handful of subs can make a video, stick it on this playlist and get noticed. It provides that crucial first step.
I really hope so.
I took part.
As a viewer.
Gimme my certificate of participation.
i'd love more big open projects, i'm definitely submitting for the next one!
This was a great Idea I had a lot of fun making my video ^~^
I will donate heavily to any charity to have a zoom beer with Jim where he gets increasingly infuriated with my mathematical illiteracy.
It was jolly good fun to take part, albeit over at AlephJamesA
Giving up before you hit a mega number of video submissions? Pshaw.
It’d be wonderful todo this again!
Omg you NEVER age. I just saw your numberphile on Nov 11, 2011
You are underrated
Unnatural Favorite numbers.
Really feeling great by participating in this project. Will like to participate in upcoming projects as well ❤️❤️❤️.
Thank you for saying Thank You. Not rare on RUclips but not as common as it might be....
Wait, what?
[drops my editing mouse]
Next time: Favorite Curve
How about favorite, or little known, but interesting theorems, equations or proofs thereof. Could include alternate/interesting approaches and/or tangential implications/results for well known theorems/problems. I guess the gist is to capture unique or personal perspectives, stuff you wouldn't necessarily see in the 'books' or on wiki pages, etc.
So how do you think about my MegaFavNumber 28222149 ?
random fact, i found this channel while searching for "peanut butter jelly time" didnt know what the song was about just typed singing banana and got this as the first result, 8 years ago
Haha.
I watched maybe two dozen and commented on many. I considered doing one but I couldn't think up a really good story about some number's properties (first prime over a million? Someone mentioned it in these comments! First Fibonacci number over a million? I shudda just picked something and ran with it), but that didn't stop some people! :D
didn't do a video myself, but it would mostly be "Graham's Number because it's the easiest to understand how to get there and how big it is" video over.
@James Grime I am one of your fan I really appreciate they way you explain the concepts, Can you recommend me some good number theory books?
Fav number between 0 and 1? Fav complex number?
I also have a #megafavnumber, but it wouldn't fit in this universe.
Graham's?
@@DaedalusYoung Graham's Number + 1
:D
Dear sir James and sir Matt, I am researching on Riemann hypothesis for the last 3 years and successfully I have found a formula for 'a' in Zeta(a+ib) in terms of 'b' and some hard looking definite integrals which are in terms of 'a' and 'b'which I was not able to solve so I am challenging you to solve those integrals . I used Riemann xi function and Riemann functional equation for Zeta function to find the formula for 'a'.
Please make a video on those integrals.
Integrals are:-
1)integral from 1 to infinity of x^((a-2)/2)*f(x)*cos(ln(x)*b/2) + x^(-a-1)*f(x)*cos(ln(x)*b/2)
2)integral from 1 to infinity of x^((a-2)/2)*f(x)*sin(ln(x)*b/2) - x^(-a-1)*f(x)*sin(ln(x)*b/2)
Where f(x) = summation from n=1 to infinity of e^(-(n^2)*π*x)
But I think finding values of a and b is not that useful. U gotta find the value of a and b where it is 0. Yeah there are multiple places where it can be 0. So at a specific solution where it is 0, so what variable u are using to point to different positions for the same solution
@@france8607 exactly, his or her formula doesn’t work. You have to find every value or counter-proof any value where zeta(s) = 0
There he is XD
If you saw those last 3 videos related to SM64, my fault, lol. I suggested to the sm64 math community (this exists) to make videos for this for fun. I tried my best to pick something very math related, with its involvement in SM64 being more of an "excuse" to speak about an interesting math problem.
how about micro_fav_nums next time
and we'll see 500 videos on planck's constant.
If we limit to "less than 1 million" we'll only see number 7 as being their lucky number and pi and e and 2.
I'm disappointed in Matt that his is the only video in the playlist without MegaFavNumbers in the title.
Actually my lates #MegaFavNumber is 3257840388504953787
Why? Well, it is the seed for pack.png in Minecraft. A very famous little image that people didn't know the seed to for a long time.
oh my! i didnt know they had found it!
Just watched that announcement video yesterday. Thing of beauty.
Why don't you upload more frequently? 😢
Please do.
I love your vids 😍
♥
My MegaFavNumber is the semiprime 28222149 . It is a semiprime s = a *b (with a=3 and b =9407383) such that a.b , b.a , s.a , s.b , a.s , s.a.b , s.b.a , a.s.b , a.b.s , b.s.a , and b.a.s are ALL semiprimes! And DISTINCT! , eleven DISTINCT semiprimes! . Dots here mean concatenation. It would be a "perfect " result if b.s were also semiprime , unfortunately b.s is not semiprime : ( Does there exist a semiprime with greater results than this semiprime ?
have you... dyed your hair?
Dont't you feel wierd when Mat talks with his sarcasm off.....
Mike?
Mike?
@@duckles426 *Mat.........
Will you keep this project going and continue adding new entries to the playlist?
I'm not against it. But I need to say it's ended so I don't have to search for new videos.
@@singingbanana Just put Matt Parker to do it!
I missed it... can we still participate?
My suggestion for the next one is the Fibonacci sequence, a theme so broad it will surely produce a lot of amazing videos.
+1, I have something I think is unique to share if that one is chosen!
I don't think that the fibonacci-Sequence can yield enough original ideas to make it interesting to watch /take part in it.
And honestly I think that Fibonacci is overrated. It is barely special enough to compete against other quite interesting (mindboggling) ones.
@@sajrra yes, you may be right. I just remembered there was even a journal because it (or a similar dequence) appeared so often in real life, but it may be very common and not so interesting mathematically.
Love from india
I just clicked "thumbs up" and changed the counter from 1010 to 1011 .... Then I thought: Only eleven likes?! :D
#BinaryFavNumbers
How was avagadros number calculated?
Hey, could you please add eddie woo‘s video to the playlist, it kinda has been forgotten ☹️
It's number 6 on the playlist.
singingbanana Oh, my fault 😂
Two things I am curious about (but not enough to do the work figuring out):
Were any numbers picked by more than one person?
Largest number?
Katie Steckles did a video on Steinhaus-Moser numbers. I suspect she wins, unless someone did a video about the busy beaver function or something.
16777216 was there at least three times. One of which on my other channel. ruclips.net/video/BPMk8e-nIvE/видео.html
Thank you guys as well!
ruclips.net/video/e-i64DkVFC0/видео.html
The center of that square is 0,0. And a video not done by me.
I had a favourite number, but no way of making a video :(
Here it is : 2,448,230,400
Prize if anyone can work out what it is :)
if we were to take 62643 ie = 3*7*19*157
and then take product of pairwise positive differences in the primes , we get that number
OR
also your number satisfies phi(n) = phi(n + 1) where phi is the euler's totient function
-shamelessly googled these , and I am certain neither is correct-
First I thought it could be some fancy factoring, and on trying it DOES "cleanly" divide by (1^1 * 2^2 * 3^3 * 4^4), but with 5^5 it breaks (although it works with 5*5 instead, but the rest is still somewhat messy then).
So we know one thing that it's NOT! xD
@@Shadow81989 Hint - it has something to do with the pseudosciene of biorhythms.
@@Craznar The word "pseudoscience" almost had me gone :-P
Anyway, biorhythms (anything with "rhythm", actually) sounds like it has to do with time, and if it's an amount of seconds, it gives a whole number of weeks (which is surprising in itself), equal to roughly 77.5 years, which is about an average human lifespan - obviously depending on country and so on - , which is where the word "bio" comes in.
Am I getting any closer?
please make a new video
hi
Can I get a little context?
hello Dr can i contact with you?pls
Hi!
Heeeyyyyyyyyyyy im talkin apple