The Neverending Story (and Droste Effect) - Numberphile

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  • Cliff wants to tell a story on a Möbius strip... And discusses recursive hot chocolate!?
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  • @Naveication
    @Naveication Před 6 lety +1595

    Missed the perfect opportunity to link this video in its own endcard

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 6 lety +236

      +Naveication great idea. Though I don't think you can do that anyway.

    • @NotMurkan
      @NotMurkan Před 6 lety +39

      Maybe also upload it as an unlisted one on Nottinghamscience :P Although it wouldn't be the real deal...

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane Před 6 lety +68

      +NotMurkan If the unlisted one linked back to the original, it would be like the second loop!

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 Před 6 lety +8

      Yes, you can loop a video to itself. I've had it happen on my other channels, though it seemed like a glitch.

    • @vinechetti
      @vinechetti Před 6 lety +5

      BTW how is it possible:
      Once upon I time I had a book. The book has a picture on it. The picture however was kids playing around and on a table there was the same book that I had with the same front page. How is it even possible? I think it's the same problem as adding a link to the video on the endcard.
      Sorry for that English XD

  • @BlobVanDam
    @BlobVanDam Před 6 lety +2129

    I heard that one time Cliff got high on cocoa and got stuck reading this recurring story for an entire week straight.

    • @mrmimeisfunny
      @mrmimeisfunny Před 6 lety +62

      Make a charity stream of cliff just reading the story. Making it slightly different enunciation in each iteration maybe a missed or added word or 2 but that doesn't change the story. (like using the word "asked" instead of "commanded" or dropping the number "108"), or maybe just surprise people with a new language. For an entire hour or so while Numberphile fans donate to Charity. Of course lets not torture Cliff and give him a break every now and again but when he returns he continues from where he left off.

    • @lucafornasari59
      @lucafornasari59 Před 6 lety +30

      YEAH !!!! EXPLODING COCOA HAS BEEN THIS HUGE PROBLEM ACROSS THE AGES

    • @kaidatong1704
      @kaidatong1704 Před 6 lety +17

      legend has it that the story is still ongoing to this day.

    • @GhettoFabulousLorch
      @GhettoFabulousLorch Před 6 lety +6

      BlobVanDam He then went on to demonstrate Zeno's Paradox by finishing the story.

    • @iedereenwinters7571
      @iedereenwinters7571 Před 6 lety +1

      BlobVanDam hjb

  • @2404charles
    @2404charles Před 6 lety +2516

    knowing him of course it's on a Möbius loop

    • @Eriiaa
      @Eriiaa Před 6 lety +151

      Next he'll put a ship in a Klein bottle

    • @Giondi
      @Giondi Před 6 lety +86

      Eriiaa Every ship is in every Klein bottle.

    • @trejkaz
      @trejkaz Před 6 lety +47

      I tried to put a ship in a Klein bottle once, but every time it just ended up outside again.

    • @derradfahrer5029
      @derradfahrer5029 Před 6 lety +2

      Es war einmal ein Mann, der hatte sieben Söhne, die sieben Söhne sagten: Vater, erzähle uns eine Geschichte, da fing der Vater an: Es war einmal...
      Once upon a time there was a man who had seven sons, those seven sons said: Father, tell us a story and so the father began: Once upon a time...
      That's the story I have been told by my parents in Germany, when I was young.

    • @davejacob5208
      @davejacob5208 Před 6 lety +2

      you are repeating the "once upon a time". once in german, and right after that in english. why?

  • @DrifterD
    @DrifterD Před 6 lety +1688

    "Dad, can you tell me a bedtime story?"
    *Whips this out**

    • @pramitbanerjee
      @pramitbanerjee Před 6 lety +34

      "Dad can you sing me a song"
      "ONE PUNCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

    • @portalsrule1239
      @portalsrule1239 Před 6 lety +20

      They say to this day, the story is still being told.

    • @m8sonmiller
      @m8sonmiller Před 6 lety +56

      DAD IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS CAN I GO TO SLEEP

    • @anonymousone6250
      @anonymousone6250 Před 6 lety +4

      Actually happened to me

    • @rockliu700
      @rockliu700 Před 6 lety +7

      This is actually true, this kind of endless stories are still being told today to kids in china.

  • @CaptTerrific
    @CaptTerrific Před 6 lety +1451

    AND he speaks Mandarin!? What can't Cliff do?

    • @elenaobradovic4181
      @elenaobradovic4181 Před 6 lety +236

      Higgins2001 Cliff can do anything! He has no limits and no end, like a Mobius loop!

    • @georgehiggins1320
      @georgehiggins1320 Před 6 lety +4

      what did he say?

    • @guuu881
      @guuu881 Před 6 lety +85

      @George Higgins everything he says in Chinese, he also says in English. So you aren't missing anything if you didn't understand

    • @elenaobradovic4181
      @elenaobradovic4181 Před 6 lety +89

      Feik Neyme At least he tried his best. And he didn't say he was going to be amazing.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 6 lety +204

      +Feik Neyme thanks for your contribution to the conversation.

  • @zhehaoshen3635
    @zhehaoshen3635 Před 6 lety +539

    I am a Chinese who study here in US(for 5years now). One of the first video I watched in CZcams is numberphile. I gotta say: this is by far the most heartwarming video I have ever watched, for it reminded me of my personal tale: I am a Chinese........

    • @zhehaoshen3635
      @zhehaoshen3635 Před 6 lety +26

      Mr. Stoll's Chinese was incredible, not surprising though since he spent time teaching in China and he is always so passionate and committed.

    • @zashtozaboga
      @zashtozaboga Před 6 lety +4

      Your english is not perfect, but I understand you. I am from Bulgaria and I don't speak english perfectly.

    • @MGSLurmey
      @MGSLurmey Před 6 lety +6

      It really warms my heart to see people from around the world who are able to communicate together since they all know the same language. Love from the UK!

    • @MGSLurmey
      @MGSLurmey Před 5 lety +1

      redbeam_; They clearly weren't intending to appear judgemental or offensive in any way. It was a friendly sort of "Hey, I relate" statement.

    • @jamieg2427
      @jamieg2427 Před 5 lety +5

      @Maxx Kroes He can put sentences together and the basic grammar is correct. I'm quite impressed! However, his pronunciation is not great.

  • @dliessmgg
    @dliessmgg Před 6 lety +861

    His Chinese sounded exactly like the fairy tale character that i expected.

    • @BLiu1
      @BLiu1 Před 6 lety +31

      His Chinese is pretty understandable.

    • @dliessmgg
      @dliessmgg Před 6 lety +20

      It just sounds so adorable, the way he talks in Chinese!

    • @RQLexi
      @RQLexi Před 6 lety +35

      It is pretty understandable, but I have to admit that his accent made me giggle. It's so cool that he actually speaks Chinese; I didn't believe it until I heard it! There really aren't enough people at the intersection between mathematics and languages.

    • @sk8rdman
      @sk8rdman Před 6 lety +41

      That's because mathematicians have figured out how to add higher dimensions to their field of study, so that they can cross language boarders without ever actually intersecting them.

    • @ogorangeduck
      @ogorangeduck Před 6 lety +5

      Yeah, it has the very distinct Western accent

  • @altrogeruvah
    @altrogeruvah Před 6 lety +702

    Cliff Stoll is one of the last of his kind. What an interesting, endearing human being.

  • @esztiszep6334
    @esztiszep6334 Před 6 lety +728

    We actually have an old song like this in Hungarian. As I am bored, here's a translation:
    _This dog in the kitchen stole the sausage._
    _The cook in his anger, stabbed the dog._
    _Then came all the other dogs and buried him,_
    _And onto his tombstone they wrote the following:_
    _This dog in the kitchen stole the sausage,_
    _The cook in his anger, stabbed the dog._
    _Then came all the other dogs and buried him,_
    _And onto his tombstone they wrote the following:_
    ...

    • @aithne99
      @aithne99 Před 6 lety +63

      Gotta love being the cheerful Hungarian.

    • @Manawyrm
      @Manawyrm Před 6 lety +72

      That song also exists in german: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_abyme
      -> A pug sneaked into the kitchen and stole an egg from the cook, and the cook took the spoon and struck the pug in half. Then a multitude of pugs came and dug a grave to him, and set a tombstone on which was written: A pug sneaked into the kitchen and stole an egg from the cook [..]

    • @alwinpriven2400
      @alwinpriven2400 Před 6 lety +46

      I heard a similar thing in Russian. Guess many cultures have recursive stories.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 6 lety +77

      +Eszti Szép cheers for sharing!
      They stabbed a dog!?

    • @esztiszep6334
      @esztiszep6334 Před 6 lety +32

      Thank you for replying! :)
      Yeah we do have some morbid kids' songs :D

  • @PlayTheMind
    @PlayTheMind Před 6 lety +1417

    *A Tale Of One Surface*

    • @andrewkovnat
      @andrewkovnat Před 6 lety +6

      I believe I saw you in the comments of Tom Scott's videos (Or maaybe someone else), and I subscribed to you a while ago. Now, I'm seeing you in a few other channels I watch. Whaddaya know? We've got similar tastes in science and maths!

    • @moshill1374
      @moshill1374 Před 6 lety +2

      He did a video for Tom on song translation (If I remember correctly)

    • @wijs001
      @wijs001 Před 6 lety +1

      PlayTheMind q

    • @Theraot
      @Theraot Před 6 lety

      vihart had some experience with that

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex Před 7 měsíci

      ??

  • @KingFredrickVI
    @KingFredrickVI Před 6 lety +726

    Once upon a time! The captain commanded "MAKE KLIEN BOTTLES!"

    • @HGGdragon
      @HGGdragon Před 6 lety +8

      KingFredrickVI *Klein!

    • @gz6616
      @gz6616 Před 6 lety +8

      Is that what turned them into rebels?

    • @schizophrenicenthusiast
      @schizophrenicenthusiast Před 6 lety +4

      And inside these Klein bottles was a note that read: "Once upon a time! The captain commanded "MAKE KLEIN BOTTLES!"..."

    • @dreamstorm194
      @dreamstorm194 Před 6 lety +6

      ther'se no "inside" when you have a Klein bottle.

    • @schizophrenicenthusiast
      @schizophrenicenthusiast Před 6 lety +1

      DreamStorm I mean inside the 3D projection of a Klein bottle

  • @misiraly
    @misiraly Před 6 lety +69

    My name is Yon Yonson,
    I live in Wisconsin.
    I work in a lumber yard there.
    The people I meet as
    I walk down the street,
    They say "Hello!"
    I say "Hello!"
    They say "What's your name."
    I say: My name is Yon Yonson...

    • @MattNadareski
      @MattNadareski Před 6 lety +2

      We had this song in chorus back in like 2nd grade. I'm surprised anyone else knows it!

    • @CSAN33
      @CSAN33 Před 6 lety +1

      I actually do live in Wisconsin! Although name isn't Yon...

    • @misiraly
      @misiraly Před 6 lety

      I read it in "Slaughterhouse-five" by Kurt Vonnegut :)

    • @chrisg3030
      @chrisg3030 Před 6 lety

      I say "I say "I say "I say "I say " I say" " " " "

  • @bradburyrobinson
    @bradburyrobinson Před 6 lety +162

    Twenty five years ago, whilst at college, I read half of a book called The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. I always meant to go back to it but never did. Twenty five years later I'm subscribed to a maths channel on CZcams watching Clifford Stoll tell a looping story in Chinese. I must go back and finish that book.

    • @baguettely
      @baguettely Před 6 lety +8

      Eeeerrmm... it's a sign?

    • @RinoaL
      @RinoaL Před 6 lety +3

      I just finished the book today, it was really great. did you ever end up reading the rest of book Bradbury? i like how theres also another short story at the end of a worm he had to deal with in his system also.

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex Před 7 měsíci

      false.

    • @bradburyrobinson
      @bradburyrobinson Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@RinoaL - I did end up buying the book, in the last few years, then did the same thing again. 😂 I started it, got a few chapters in then put it down again. Third time lucky.

  • @S1nwar
    @S1nwar Před 6 lety +294

    this guy is outperforming christopher lloyd as doc brown

  • @tedturneriscrazy
    @tedturneriscrazy Před 6 lety +420

    I'm a simple man. I see a Cliff video in my feed, I drop everything and watch it.

  • @oqibidipo
    @oqibidipo Před 6 lety +401

    Here's a neverstarting story:

    • @oqibidipo
      @oqibidipo Před 6 lety +66

      Here is another:

    • @hippotropikas5374
      @hippotropikas5374 Před 6 lety +28

      Just because it never starts

    • @ElizaberthUndEugen
      @ElizaberthUndEugen Před 6 lety +15

      Does it never start or does it end in the same instance it starts? And is there a difference?

    • @X_Baron
      @X_Baron Před 6 lety +11

      Yoda stories sometimes backwards move.

    • @mancomecanico
      @mancomecanico Před 6 lety +10

      After watching Vsauce's video about the banach-tarski paradox, I've had for a couple of weeks a recurrent dream where I was in an endless library with an infinite parchment and a quill, and I was tasked with writing Ian Stewart's Hyperwebster. The dream went on for what it seems like ages, and I remember feeling really frustrated because I was still on the A

  • @kevinmackie4045
    @kevinmackie4045 Před 6 lety +100

    Someone please make a 10 hour loop of him reading the story

    • @FeLiNe418
      @FeLiNe418 Před 6 lety

      Kevin Mackie you know you can make CZcams video loop forever, right?

    • @turun_ambartanen
      @turun_ambartanen Před 6 lety +3

      FeLiNe418
      Yes, but you can't choose a short part, You can only loop the whole video

    • @FeLiNe418
      @FeLiNe418 Před 6 lety

      Just make a video of that part and loop it

    • @turun_ambartanen
      @turun_ambartanen Před 6 lety +1

      FeLiNe418
      Yes, but that's not that easy. Or, to be more correct, it is easy but you have to download some software and actually do it.

  • @jelmerl1458
    @jelmerl1458 Před 6 lety +177

    This man's amazing, he should read audio books, I'd pay for it

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 6 lety +57

      +Jelmer Q I can't imagine how hard it'd be getting Cliff to stick to reading an audio book!!!

    • @Caitlinm007
      @Caitlinm007 Před 6 lety +2

      Numberphile The many asides and non sequiturs would only make the piece more fun!

    • @RinoaL
      @RinoaL Před 6 lety +4

      +Numberphile get him to read his own book, The Cuckoo's Egg! :D

    • @bradypostma3708
      @bradypostma3708 Před 6 lety +2

      He'll read a Dr. Suess book, and the audio will be six hours long.

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex Před 7 měsíci

      false.

  • @BurhanulHaque
    @BurhanulHaque Před 6 lety +22

    Everyone needs a Cliff in their life. His approach towards the little things and his energy uplifts me every time!

  • @Platanov
    @Platanov Před 6 lety +33

    "Once upon a time, there was a chemical reaction. This chemical reaction eventually became so complex that it asked to be told a story."

    • @richardfila
      @richardfila Před 6 lety +2

      And therein lies the lunacy of the theory of macro evolution.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 Před 4 lety

      Richard Fila It's just "the theory of evolution", and it's not lunacy.

  • @codyriceandothers
    @codyriceandothers Před 6 lety +1267

    Here's a real neverending story:
    One Piece

  • @commiebat
    @commiebat Před 6 lety +38

    So much for there being two sides to every story...

  • @grainfrizz
    @grainfrizz Před 6 lety +76

    this guy is oozing with passion

    • @jodinha4225
      @jodinha4225 Před 6 lety

      Daniel Astillero that sounds horrible .
      Just... ewwww

  • @laemmeelagi
    @laemmeelagi Před 6 lety +11

    We have the same story in italian:
    _Once upon a time, there was a King_
    _who told his servant:_
    _"Tell me a tale!"_
    _And thus the tale began:_
    Yeah it's much simpler

  • @marcelweber7813
    @marcelweber7813 Před 6 lety +157

    Next time write that story on a Klein bottle. And in. And on. And in.

  • @dan_tr4pd00r
    @dan_tr4pd00r Před 6 lety +69

    I met a traveller from an antique land who said: "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: ...

    • @Redhotsmasher
      @Redhotsmasher Před 6 lety +2

      Hi Ho Wolverhampton Yo dawg, I heard you like stories, so I put a story inside of your story inside of your story inside of your story inside of your story inside of your story...

    • @ShinyRayquazza
      @ShinyRayquazza Před 6 lety +3

      two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert?

    • @dan_tr4pd00r
      @dan_tr4pd00r Před 6 lety +2

      And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: ...

    • @drewkavi6327
      @drewkavi6327 Před 6 lety +1

      Hi Ho Wolverhampton My Name is Ozymandias King of Kings Look upon me and Despair? Is that right??

    • @ShinyRayquazza
      @ShinyRayquazza Před 6 lety +2

      "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair."

  • @artuurdupont3999
    @artuurdupont3999 Před 6 lety +174

    But can you make a klein bottle if it?

    • @Ryuuuuuk
      @Ryuuuuuk Před 6 lety +4

      Artuur Dupont
      Yes, it is a mobius Strip, from which you could Build a klein Bottle.

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex Před 7 měsíci

      ??

  • @jamesc6028
    @jamesc6028 Před 6 lety +277

    沒問題我聽的懂你的中文
    It's ok, I can understand your chinese

    • @jumpander
      @jumpander Před 6 lety +8

      我也懂了!

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen Před 6 lety +65

      我也懂!

    • @WiseGuy508
      @WiseGuy508 Před 6 lety +14

      blackpenredpen Fancy seeing you here

    • @y_fam_goeglyd
      @y_fam_goeglyd Před 6 lety +34

      J Chen It's nice that someone tries to speak someone else's language. It shows respect for the people who speak it. I'm from a bilingual country and though the vast majority speak English fluently, some incomers have a go at learning the national language, if only a bit. We don't mind if they trip up, they *tried*, and that means a lot. I'm glad you feel that way. I've never tried to learn any Chinese language. Not out of disrespect but terror! I'm sticking to boring old European languages instead ;-)

    • @ifacro
      @ifacro Před 6 lety +5

      Mandy B, and where would you be from? I know from second account that French people (Parisiennes more specifically) look down on foreigners speaking bad French and whatnot, though I don't really know why.

  • @LenVrijhof
    @LenVrijhof Před 6 lety +23

    If you want to hear recursion in music, you should try karawitan. The rhythm slows down to a half time and gets filled in, and then that slows down and gets filled in, and so forth. It's really interesting!

  • @Bippah
    @Bippah Před 6 lety +182

    *He knows chinese ?!*

  • @ZerosiiniFIN
    @ZerosiiniFIN Před 6 lety +181

    Doc Brown?

  • @YingwuUsagiri
    @YingwuUsagiri Před 6 lety +6

    Cliff Stoll truly is a bottomless pit of surprises and enthusiasm and it's a never-ending pleasure to listen to him!

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 6 lety +4

      +Niels Schellekens thanks - very kind

  • @TapadeepChakraborty
    @TapadeepChakraborty Před 6 lety +211

    Love this man

  • @demostthenes
    @demostthenes Před 6 lety +5

    Whatever else is going on in my life, I always drop everything to watch an update from Cliff. Living legend.

  • @Repsack2
    @Repsack2 Před 6 lety +2

    Except for "Tell us a story", i really like how the last quotation mark is always the beginning of another nested quote from the captain. They never terminate

  • @SpeakShibboleth
    @SpeakShibboleth Před 6 lety +41

    How was there not a link to this video on the end card. Missed opportunity.

  • @JimSteinbrecher
    @JimSteinbrecher Před 6 lety +11

    the bilingual story is as recursive as the original one. and although it can be _generated_ by iteration, the _story_ itself is recursive, because it describes concatenated events (each iteration of the text corresponds to a deeper level of the story).
    i think this was just cliffs excuse to speak chinese. ;)

  • @Eriiaa
    @Eriiaa Před 6 lety +43

    Put a model ship inside a Klein bottle please

  • @AaronTossing
    @AaronTossing Před 6 lety +1

    John Barth's "short" story Frame-Tale (from the collection Lost in the Funhouse, published 1968) is on a Möbius strip. He includes instructions on how to cut it from the page and assemble it. It reads "Once upon a time there was a story that began Once upon a time there...". You get the idea.

  • @RnBoy15
    @RnBoy15 Před 6 lety +493

    The original Rick

    • @user-kh5tv9rb6y
      @user-kh5tv9rb6y Před 6 lety +50

      Vida András Happy Rick.

    • @piranha031091
      @piranha031091 Před 6 lety +77

      More like the real life Dr. Emmett Brown.
      (I know Rick & Morty were initially a parody of back to the future, but he really doesn't have any of Rick's pessimistic nihilism and bitterness, which are quite defining features of the character)

    • @CleverGoatee
      @CleverGoatee Před 6 lety +4

      Pickle Rick is back in Cliff form.

    • @cee_yarr3177
      @cee_yarr3177 Před 6 lety +36

      "I turned myself into a Klein bottle, Morty! Klein bottle Rick!"

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri Před 6 lety +2

      +clever goat
      Klein pickle-jar Rick

  • @annchapple6085
    @annchapple6085 Před 6 lety +4

    Wait a minute... I just realized this is the same guy that was in the movie "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" that i watched in school last year!

  • @wktodd
    @wktodd Před 6 lety +101

    'know the man?
    what man?
    the man who does voodoo
    who do?
    you do!
    do what?
    'know the man……

    • @poppymcpeake9961
      @poppymcpeake9961 Před 6 lety +17

      Bill Todd
      "you remind me of a man"
      "what man?"
      "a man of power"
      "what power?"
      "the power of voodoo"
      "who do?"
      "you do"
      "do what?"
      "remind me of a man"
      etc

    • @marcoaurelio4903
      @marcoaurelio4903 Před 6 lety +2

      in brazil we have the "o joão robou pão na casa do joão o joão robou pão na casa do joão quem eu ? eu não o (put here other name) robou pão na casa do joão" indefinitely

    • @wktodd
      @wktodd Před 6 lety +2

      Poppy McPeake ah! yes you're correct (my memory failed again)

    • @jordanhoggart3415
      @jordanhoggart3415 Před 6 lety +4

      Damn I read that in David Bowie's voice

    • @alphanum001
      @alphanum001 Před 6 lety +2

      Dance Magic Dance!

  • @josuelservin2409
    @josuelservin2409 Před 6 lety +2

    It always cheers me up when I stumble on one of Cliff videos.

  • @eclipsa1203
    @eclipsa1203 Před 8 měsíci +1

    as a chinese living in the netherlands: im just rly blown away, i did not expect to see cliff speaking chinese and telling us about the book many chinese grew up with

  • @epicac100
    @epicac100 Před 6 lety +3

    I just wanted to say how damn remarkable it is for him to speak Chinese in such a conversant manner! It's not easy to learn Chinese. It is also not easy to learn scientific terms in Chinese. 他真是个天才!

  • @aribafaheem7847
    @aribafaheem7847 Před 6 lety +3

    I LOVE his enthusiasm!

  • @user-wb7ez9ud4p
    @user-wb7ez9ud4p Před 2 lety +2

    This reminds me of a nursery story that my parents and grandparents would tell me until I fall asleep. I don't know how long this story has been around for, but many people seem to know the same story. it goes as follows (I'll try my best to put it in English):
    Once upon a time, there was a mountain,
    and on that mountain, there was a temple
    in that temple, lived two monks
    the younger monk asked the older monk:
    "Please tell me a story?"
    and so the older monk said:
    Once upon a time, there was a mountain....

  • @celtgunn9775
    @celtgunn9775 Před 6 lety

    Cliff always makes me smile and I learn something new from him every time! Thank you Cliff! 💞

  • @energiesoler
    @energiesoler Před 6 lety +4

    so that's why Song Jiang was defeated by the imperials, too busy listening to the story of himself ordering his captain to tel the story of him ordering his captain to... etc to actually fight back.

  • @wkingston1248
    @wkingston1248 Před 6 lety +11

    Some say this story is shallow i say it has infinite depth.

  • @xinggao6397
    @xinggao6397 Před 5 lety +2

    I grew up in Nanjing, China. My family spent a lot of weekends on the Purple Mountain (Zi Jin Shan), and we passed by the observatory so many times. I already love this guy like my grandpa (who was also into Math), now I love him more.

  • @willfreese
    @willfreese Před 4 lety +1

    "Once upon a dark and stormy night, sitting round a campfire bright, sat forty robbers, short and tall, forty robbers, big and small. Said a tall one to a small, 'Anthony, tell us a story,' and straightaway he began." When we asked our grandfather to tell us a story, he always told this looping tale. We kids would listen as long as he was willing to repeat it.

  • @FlyingJetpack1
    @FlyingJetpack1 Před 6 lety +601

    This story is pretty shallow, I'll give it a 2/10.

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri Před 6 lety +6

      Cool story.
      How about you tell us a cooler one?

    • @lukes3845
      @lukes3845 Před 6 lety +17

      Nilguiri Do you know the story of Darth &@&&@ the wise?

    • @viciousviridian6761
      @viciousviridian6761 Před 6 lety +40

      Nilguiri - No problem.
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    • @skyscraperfan
      @skyscraperfan Před 6 lety +60

      You should read the story to the end before you judge it :-)

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri Před 6 lety +1

      +ViciousViridian
      Then what happened?

  • @leohunter6930
    @leohunter6930 Před 6 lety +3

    I love his enthusiasm

  • @yanbo9001
    @yanbo9001 Před 6 lety +1

    Cliff is such an awesome guy. He is so passionate about the stuff he tells and he lightens my mood everytime I see one of his videos.

  • @BuickGirl1986
    @BuickGirl1986 Před 6 lety +2

    I love this man! I like numberphile but I will absolutely come when I see him

  • @epic312archive7
    @epic312archive7 Před 6 lety +6

    Turn on captions for the Chinese part...you won't regret it

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 Před 6 lety +22

    Mandarin speakers, did Cliff get it right?

    • @adamchee8724
      @adamchee8724 Před 6 lety +1

      Lawrence Calablaster its ok i think

    • @JasonBechtelTeaches
      @JasonBechtelTeaches Před 6 lety +2

      Not bad! I applaud his effort.

    • @hxhuang9306
      @hxhuang9306 Před 6 lety +2

      Very close!

    • @richardfila
      @richardfila Před 6 lety +2

      I understood him just fine. He speaks Mandarin at a most intelligible speed!

    • @joeyouyang
      @joeyouyang Před 6 lety +7

      Haha he's great and it's understandable with the text, but he pronounced "Jiang" wrong. it's pronounced kinda like "Jung"

  • @20DX00
    @20DX00 Před 6 lety +2

    Dude, I love that you're trying your best to speak Chinese, it was pretty accurate and I understood it completely, love to see more maths ideas done enthusiastically on this channel XD

  • @yiminghu2491
    @yiminghu2491 Před 6 lety +2

    Greetings from a Nanjing University Astronomy alumni! I honestly didn't expect this episode from this channel. But hey, what a pleasant surprise!

  • @PinkChucky15
    @PinkChucky15 Před 6 lety +18

    I love videos with Cliff :-)

  • @preheatedcandy9285
    @preheatedcandy9285 Před 6 lety +7

    The subtitles over the Chinese part are ridiculous

  • @rintepis9290
    @rintepis9290 Před 6 lety +1

    I only met Cliff for an hour and he is already my favorite person in the world.

  • @KyleMaxwell
    @KyleMaxwell Před 6 lety +1

    I had the pleasure of meeting Cliff Stoll and having lunch with him this past winter. He's exactly the same in person as he is in this video. (Which, for clarity, is AWESOME!)

  • @randomstuff9960
    @randomstuff9960 Před 3 lety +3

    He even knows Chinese! This man is great!

  • @bertdong1023
    @bertdong1023 Před 6 lety +9

    As a Chinese myself, your mandarin is very clear just a bit rusty that's all. And isn't that interesting even past 40 years when you looked back every experience has its silver lining. Haha. If you come to china again please let me be your host.

  • @RoboCobeh
    @RoboCobeh Před 3 lety +1

    The captions though:
    [Presumably the same story as before, in Chinese.]
    Priceless.

  • @jordanbickett4062
    @jordanbickett4062 Před 6 lety +1

    I saw him at the hardware store. We talked for 10 minutes about why a bottle of glue does a twist when u flip it over in the air. Wonderful guy.

  • @repmel
    @repmel Před 6 lety +8

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  • @SgtWiking
    @SgtWiking Před 6 lety +7

    At least he didnt engrave the story on Klein bottles, heh

  • @geoph2000
    @geoph2000 Před 6 lety +2

    That moment when you learn that one of your favorite numberphile professors used to teach in your hometown: Nanjing

  • @AyatollahKhomeiniSalleh

    He can speak mandarin well and yet he says he has forgotten or is not good at it. We can learn alot from this learned yet humble man. Cheers.

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    @BigTallLankyDude Před 6 lety +6

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    • @moussetehdoggoeswoof5896
      @moussetehdoggoeswoof5896 Před 6 lety

      This is the song that never ends!
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  • @pafnutiytheartist
    @pafnutiytheartist Před 6 lety +15

    From programmer's point of view, swapping languages does note make it any more recursive. If you want a story that can not be expressed in a loop you have to branch it. For example:
    *Story*
    Once upon a time 108 rebels gathered by the lakeside. And he captain started a story: "... The rebels were attacked this night and all of them got killed but one got away. He came back to his family and told them this story: "...
    Insert a full story insead each "...".
    This can not be expicitly expressed in a loop and reqieres some form of recursion because the story includes itself twice.
    Classical recursive stories like one in the video however can because they have tail call recursion (it loops on itself once, and it's the last thing it does).
    To show it's not a normal loop let's expand the story (insert itself instead of every...) once:
    *Story*
    Once upon a time 108 rebels gathered by the lakeside. And he captain started a story: "Once upon a time 108 rebels gathered by the lakeside. And he captain started a story: "... The rebels were attacked this night and all of them got killed but one got away. He came back to his family and told them this story: "... The rebels were attacked this night and all of them got killed but one got away. He came back to his family and told them this story: "Once upon a time 108 rebels gathered by the lakeside. And he captain started a story: "... The rebels were attacked this night and all of them got killed but one got away. He came back to his family and told them this story: "...
    To do the next step you'd have to insert now 4 pieces instead of two now. This is a big deal as each time you need to do more work than the previous time.

    • @16m49x3
      @16m49x3 Před 6 lety +1

      He never said it did.

    • @realCevra
      @realCevra Před 6 lety +2

      *swapping languages does note make it any more recursive.* that wasn't the point, it was to show the difference between iteration and recursion.
      doing the same again with just different starting conditions (choice of language) is an iteration, doing the same as a part of itself (story inside the story) is recursion

    • @BrianZhangOfficial
      @BrianZhangOfficial Před 6 lety

      It's an example of mutual recursion

    • @postvideo97
      @postvideo97 Před 6 lety +1

      Any recursive function can be expressed using a loop and a stack. So yea... recursion and iteration are very similar.
      Actually in machine code recursion is handled with a stack.

  • @joshi5507
    @joshi5507 Před 6 lety

    I love cliff stoll. I love how happy he always seems to be. I'm not saying he doesn't have his bad days but his happiness rubs off on people

  • @daxter7575
    @daxter7575 Před 6 lety +1

    I love this guy we need more of him

  • @pepperonisalad2304
    @pepperonisalad2304 Před 6 lety +8

    没事,我们会听懂就行

  • @anamarvelo
    @anamarvelo Před 6 lety +3

    This guy is awsome

  • @utorner123
    @utorner123 Před 6 lety

    This gentleman is golden, I'm really happy to watch the videos in which he appears :)

  • @myriadsfeynman9096
    @myriadsfeynman9096 Před 4 lety

    I may have a limited exposure to spoken chinese but I had never heard someone speak chinese with such enthusiasm. It's delightful.

  • @jumpander
    @jumpander Před 6 lety +6

    很好的!我喜歡這個故事!:D

  • @matthewzuelke6721
    @matthewzuelke6721 Před 6 lety +4

    Awesome!! Now do a Klein bottle...

  • @csastra7588
    @csastra7588 Před 6 lety +1

    omg i love how he is so cheerful

  • @josephcohen734
    @josephcohen734 Před 4 lety +2

    Love whoever made the subtitles for this

  • @OliverCovfefe
    @OliverCovfefe Před 6 lety +21

    I love this guy

  • @joshinils
    @joshinils Před 6 lety +4

    Bout time Marty shows up

  • @firstyh
    @firstyh Před 4 lety +2

    Saw this video on a Chinese video website. Many of us love you. Thank you for teaching in Nanjing.

  • @PersonaRandomNumbers
    @PersonaRandomNumbers Před 6 lety +2

    I understood the Chinese fairly well -- it is very nice that you took the time to learn it! I believe that trying to learn a language shows respect, even if you stumble a bit on pronunciation now.

  • @diggsfather
    @diggsfather Před 6 lety +3

    Clicked only because of Mr. Klein Bottle

  • @ortenmachingaleader3379
    @ortenmachingaleader3379 Před 6 lety +47

    Wich *Rick* is this, *Rick D1775* or *Rick 177*?

  • @AlexKing-tg9hl
    @AlexKing-tg9hl Před 4 lety +2

    Mr Stoll, your Klein bottle videos are the best.

  • @Psilocybeing
    @Psilocybeing Před 6 lety

    More of Cliff. Love it!

  • @zippymax1
    @zippymax1 Před 6 lety +4

    Uhh...

  • @TheNoerdy
    @TheNoerdy Před 6 lety +184

    You dont need a Mobius strip, just a ring of paper to do this.

    • @wierdalien1
      @wierdalien1 Před 6 lety +140

      Name54554455234 but isnt it cooler in a mobius strip

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 6 lety +143

      +Alistair Shaw you said it

    • @datenegassie
      @datenegassie Před 6 lety +12

      True, but Möbius strips are cooler than plain rings.

    • @TheOrganicEngine
      @TheOrganicEngine Před 6 lety +52

      The Mobius strip is more resource efficient, you're using every side

    • @runeboas6421
      @runeboas6421 Před 6 lety +49

      Nono, you're using all of the side! ;)

  • @jtaulton
    @jtaulton Před 6 lety +2

    Cliff has to be the funniest genius in history

  • @jmiquelmb
    @jmiquelmb Před 6 lety

    I loved to watch inside that recursive thing in the packages when I was a kid. It was like playing with two mirrors and try to get as many reflections of yourself as possible

  • @criskity
    @criskity Před 6 lety +52

    Song Jiang, not Song Jian.

    • @steliostoulis1875
      @steliostoulis1875 Před 6 lety

      you don't pronounce the g

    • @criskity
      @criskity Před 6 lety +3

      Not separately, but "ng" is a digraph representing a sound that is different from "n". 宋江 (song jiang) is different from 宋間 (song jian).

    • @PeterLiuIsBeast
      @PeterLiuIsBeast Před 6 lety

      CNVideos 66666 宋江变成"送奸"了。

    • @worstedwoolens
      @worstedwoolens Před 6 lety

      He did say he taught in southern China. Oftentimes they pronounce -ng as -n there.

  • @hxhuang9306
    @hxhuang9306 Před 6 lety +77

    从前有座山,山上有座庙,庙里有个老和尚在给小和尚讲故事。。。
    Like if you understand what this is

    • @meinbuch9458
      @meinbuch9458 Před 6 lety +3

      HX Huang I've heard that story before!!!

    • @emerson-sheaapril8555
      @emerson-sheaapril8555 Před 6 lety

      his chinese is horrible

    • @antiHUMANDesigns
      @antiHUMANDesigns Před 6 lety +1

      Google translate, so yes, I understand. :P Doesn't seem to make much sense, though.

    • @tanqs789
      @tanqs789 Před 6 lety +3

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    • @edmundtan8506
      @edmundtan8506 Před 6 lety

      超大学校級の「可愛い」 😂 monk and the disciples

  • @nathanielmacasaet2147
    @nathanielmacasaet2147 Před 6 lety +1

    Man, Cliff is so enthusiastic he can barely sit still! I love it!

  • @fakename3996
    @fakename3996 Před 6 lety

    This guy is my favorite please do more with him. Also please do more videos in general.