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ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p>From breeding rabbits to leaping frogs via something that looks suspiciously like the Binet formula:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkmR3rzz5M" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=JBkmR3rzz5M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fibonacci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fibonacci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoldenRatio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldenRatio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a></p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p>Yet another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> on stupidly big numbers:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGzg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGzg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numbers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Steinhaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinhaus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GrahamsNumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrahamsNumber</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Knuth</span></a><br>Part 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwK4BgwzP8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=ADwK4BgwzP8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
coucou<p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/dimensions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dimensions</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhnZbDprE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhnZbDpr</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/JoyScrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoyScrolling</span></a> </p><p>Hitomezashi stitch patterns at Numberphile</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Crafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crafts</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Sashiko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sashiko</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbfhzlMk2eY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JbfhzlMk2e</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p>
Gary Parker :party_porg:<p>Some Friday afternoon <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a> to warm your brain up: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGzg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGz</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p>This one's about Very Big Numbers</p>
t s r o n o<p><a href="https://youtu.be/wyGNbs2mf5M?si=KU69ibZkBnLaLQwx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/wyGNbs2mf5M?si=KU69ib</span><span class="invisible">ZkBnLaLQwx</span></a></p><p>fractals in reality from Hideki Tsuiki via <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a> </p><p>that h-fractal absolutely has my heart. i want to see it 10 times the size. it's like some weird reality where mathematics is projected into the real world.</p>
Elliot Shank<p>“A 1.58-Dimensional Object”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhnZbDprE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhnZbDprE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Even better when it gets to the “integer dimensioned" fractals.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fractals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fractals</span></a></p>
Michael Höhle<p>‪I'm enjoying the free time from classes to finally write a blog post again:</p><p>Risky Risk Results - <a href="https://mhoehle.github.io/blog/2025/02/21/risk.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mhoehle.github.io/blog/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/21/risk.html</span></a></p><p>The work was inspired by a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> episode on erroneous calculations of the probabilities in the Game of Risk. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a></p>
Infininight<p>My birthday seems to be mathematically awesome.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99stb2mzspI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=99stb2mzspI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a></p>
Xan Gregg<p>I learned via <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> about Sloane's Gap, an empty band that appears when you plot counts of integers appearing in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS.org). Here's the 2011 original plot and my updated version with 2024 data and coloring some categories.<br>arxiv.org/pdf/1101.4470</p>
Tariq<p>a number to the power of a matrix?</p><p>🌶️🌶️🔥</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHozRTwHInE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=CHozRTwHInE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a></p>
Mazzo<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> about the interesting number paradox and taxicab numbers 😂 </p><p>"The interesting number paradox is a humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". The paradox states that every natural number is interesting." - wiki</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest</span><span class="invisible">ing_number_paradox</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_</span><span class="invisible">number</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a><br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p><p>don't hesitate to throw funny paradoxes or math related fun in this thread</p>
MOULE (in Rouge!) #RedInstead<p>Two more videos about the new largest discovered prime number from Numberphile!</p><p>"New Largest Known Prime with Matt Parker (Full Interview)": <a href="https://youtube.com/embed/oE8puWQ4taQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/embed/oE8puWQ4taQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>"The Largest Known Prime Number - Numberphile Podcast": <a href="https://youtube.com/embed/E6iz4Vs5jcc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/embed/E6iz4Vs5jcc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/MersennePrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MersennePrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/GIMPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIMPS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/PrimeNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrimeNumbers</span></a></p>
Bharath M. Palavalli<p>I’ve always enjoyed reading Donald Knuth but listening to him in <a href="https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/donald-knuth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">numberphile.com/podcast/donald</span><span class="invisible">-knuth</span></a> somehow doesn’t sit well. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knuth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a></p>
Stuart Langridge<p>Hey, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> types. New <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a> video about "the lazy caterer's sequence", maximising the number of pieces you can cut a pizza into with straight-line cuts by ensuring that each cut intersects all previous cuts, so that after n cuts you've got 1+Σn pieces. But doing it the obvious way tends to give lots of tiny little triangular bits. Has anyone looked into how to keep the slices as close to equal as possible? I can't find anything. Is it not even remotely possible?<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9UZSodeN8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9UZSodeN</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
FunGuy2PlayWith<p>The Clever Way to Count Tanks <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> </p><p>How <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> cracked the puzzle of how many <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tanks</span></a> were being produced by Nazi Germany during World War 2.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/WLCwMRJBhuI?si=_ayI9eUZvzz-Ei5o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/WLCwMRJBhuI?si=_ayI9e</span><span class="invisible">UZvzz-Ei5o</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>For anyone interested into how <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DUAL_EC_DRBG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DUAL_EC_DRBG</span></a> worked, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a> made a good video about it.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbww" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbw</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptography</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/basics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basics</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIST</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Govware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Govware</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Backdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Backdoors</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Backdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Backdoor</span></a></p>
Elliot Shank<p>Shakespeare’s use of the word “cypher" and the origin of the multiplication symbol (×): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Ho32fAEEM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=21Ho32fAEE</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a></p>
ednl 🇪🇺<p>Very proud to have been published on Neil Sloane's Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences where I sent in a small correction after watching James Grime's Numberphile video on tetrahedral numbers <a href="https://youtu.be/CK3_zarXkw0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/CK3_zarXkw0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and reading the links at <a href="https://oeis.org/A104246" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oeis.org/A104246</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tetrahedral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tetrahedral</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oeis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oeis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numberphile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>The Parker Square brown paper was found, framed and was given to Matt Parker 💙</p><p>Numberphile: The Parker Paper (a lost treasure)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0U9ou0HOgY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=T0U9ou0HOg</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/ParkerSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParkerSquare</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Numberphile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numberphile</span></a></p>
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