Why the longest English word is PAPAL and SPA is the pointiest.
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Thanks to everyone who made those ridiculous Mathematics He Wrote opening titles possible. The folder was crafted by Lisa Mathers, the SUM theme was one again remixed by Howard Carter and the whole thing was directed by Alex Genn-Bash. I did all my own typing.
For my word list I used "words_alpha.txt" from here: github.com/dwyl/english-words
Here is Sam Hartburn's cross product Geogebra file: www.geogebra.org/m/ez7sqwxw
If you like word fun, you should check out Word Ways. All the editions are available free online. Here is the one I showed: digitalcommons.butler.edu/wor...
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CORRECTIONS:
- Urg, at 05:46 Pythagoras is accidentally spelled as “Pythagorus”. That’s not a joke; legit mistake. I’ve made a real uss of myself.
- At 09:57 I say PAPAL averages 13.1cm "per journey" when I should have said "per letter". Consider this my confession.
- At 3:40 I say "So the top 4 rows, now including the letters" but I meant “now including the digits". But what are digits if not fancy letters? Spotted by Trimutius.
- Let me know if you spot any other mistakes!
And here are most of the words mentioned in this video:
MINIMUM (distance = 248.0mm, angle = 77.4°)
DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE (distance = 2119.5mm, angle = 1548.0°)
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (distance = 2031.8mm, angle = 1229.3°)
SUPERINCOMPREHENSIBLENESS (distance = 1665.5mm, angle = 1090.4°)
PALAPALA (distance = 1112.9mm, angle = 19.6°)
PAPAL (distance = 655.7mm, angle = 6.5°)
PAPA (distance = 503.3mm, angle = 0.0°)
AS (distance = 19.1mm, angle = 0.0°)
ASS (distance = 19.1mm, angle = 0.0°)
POO (distance = 19.1mm, angle = 0.0°)
POOP (distance = 38.1mm, angle = 0.0°)
DEESS (distance = 43.4mm, angle = 50.9°)
WEEDS (distance = 57.7mm, angle = 180.0°)
WEEWEE (distance = 57.2mm, angle = 0.0°)
WEEWEED (distance = 76.8mm, angle = 104.0°)
DISMANTLEMENT (distance = 1124.2mm, angle = 143.3°)
SPA (distance = 316.6mm, angle = 0.8°)
FUZZ (distance = 162.8mm, angle = 0.9°)
GAZOGENE (distance = 523.5mm, angle = 310.3°)
SCHIZOGONY (distance = 638.2mm, angle = 407.0°)
WAYZGOOSE (distance = 502.8mm, angle = 294.0°)
OUTREACH (distance = 255.3mm, angle = 878.2°)
ETHMOIDS (distance = 278.4mm, angle = 798.9°)
NONMISCHIEVOUSNESS (distance = 965.9mm, angle = 1068.5°)
NONSUBSTITUTIONARY (distance = 989.4mm, angle = 1038.4°)
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Props by Lisa Mathers
Geogebra by Sam Hartburn
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
All typing by Matt Parker
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PAPALS?
In your “EVERYDAY USE OF PYTHAGORAS” slide, you misspell it “PYTHAGORUS”, with a “U” near the end instead of an “A”.
And I think “Schizogony” should be pronounced “sk-it-z-AW-guh-nee”. Approximately.
And know do it for qwertz Keyboard so I know what I need to do ;D
@@DayInDaLife Nah, the problem with going away from qwertz (or in my case qwertz since I'm german) is that you would have to rebind a lot of keys in games and Programms + as far as I know, no alternative layout has the öäüß Keys I need for my school work...
"If you accept the definition that a word as some letters, surrounded by a gap, then xnopyt, aaaaaaajjjjjjjjj, hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblwhitoo'ap, are all words" ~Tom Scott
Qmqmqmqmqmqmqm them
"xnopyt, AA-"
which video sir
@@londonreturns czcams.com/video/m8niIHChc1Y/video.html
"What Counts as a Word?"
@@alkalinekats8300 thanks haven't seen this one in a while
"If you're goin' up and down, you're in hypotenuse town." Is probably the nerdiest phrase I've ever heard.
He's a poet and he knows it.
Don't you also need to be going side to side to have a hypotenuse?
@@PhilHibbs because of the offset when going up and down you already have a bit of sideways action going on
@@PhilHibbs in the video he was talking about moving around on a keyboard and on a keyboard the keys are misaligned which means that going up and down on a keyboard will automatically mean you're also going side to side.
I am definitely going to start using "hypotenuse town" anytime I need to move diagonally.
Crazy idea, run a novel through your typing distance program. I want to know how far an author had to move their fingers to type a book, next level would be a book series (go all in with wheel of time haha)
I love this idea
Bump
you need to assume that they use a hunt-and-peck method instead of something with multiple fingers involved
Linguist by training + recreational math hobbyist + circular fingerpoke typing enthusiast = delighted fan. Keep up the good (?) work!
The longest English word is "SMILED".
The "S" and the "D" are separated by a MILE.
SKILOMETERD
@@purrplaysLE a mile is longer than a kilometer so skilometerd unfortunately is not the longest one :/
@@zirkereuler5242 snineteenandahalfkilometersd
sMILEs.... slightly more alliterative, if you push the meaning of alliterative or if you can use an s for a bracket/parenthesis....plus it is plural. I win.
SLIGHTYEARS
I'm pretty sure Matt is as close as we have to a modern day Greek "philosopher"... an extremely bright person who just sits around and thinks about stuff all day.
pretty much
Unlike Greek philosophers, Matt is often right.
I didn't expect the smart-home contingent to show up here! You were the first to get me into Shellys, hi! :)
@@DonReba How would you say something so controversial yet so brave
you know there are people alive today who have the actual job 'philosopher'???? and a degree for it??
do you think no one else has a job involving thinking about things?!?!
It’s just great that such a large number of the shortest words are so silly
I'd like to add a few words for everyone's consideration: DREAD, alternatively READ. Has a wonderful little circle motion. Hours of fun. WARD is another good one with an easy but satisfying one-hand motion. MINIMUM is still really very good, though; definitely hard to beat that one.
DREADS and READS -- filling in the middle of the circle is quite satisfying to me :)
I remember seeing a post that said that typing the word "skepticism" feels like playing ping pong with your keyboard. And... they're not wrong.
Should have got Tom Scott in for this classy linguistics fun
Not gonna lie almost thought that was him in the intro
@Questa Semplice Animazione lol you ok bru? You can't bear it really?
xnopit
@Questa Semplice Animazione this is a video about linguistics and math, let's not make it a partisan issue
@Questa Semplice Animazione I'm right wing and yet never noticed it. Neither do I care.
That "Mathematics, he wrote" intro was both the funniest look I could have ever imagined Matt having and the most sublime version of the Stand-up Maths theme I've heard so far.
Exactly!! I love Matt's joke!! Let's crank up the thumbs up for the comment above!!
Me watching the intro…
Wait a minute…
Waaaait a minute….
1:20 Looks at his wrist but he's not even wearing a watch.
Every time Matt's team makes an intro they always outdo themselves.
I think he should make the opening permanent
07:30 - I'm german, i've had my share of compound nouns. Non-technical, technical, you name it. The longest german words aren't even that uncommon in everyday speech.
And btw, "minimum" is also very satisfying to write by hand imo.
Write it in cursive and show someone under the age of 24. Minimum was used as an example of how ridiculous cursive can be to read sometimes.
@@rich1051414 minimum in cursive is just a sad worm
@@rich1051414 It's like Russian (or most other Cyrillic script alphabets), where most of the letters have vertical lines, one to three, and few to no rounded elements that make them stand out. Add to that that Russian print typically is unusually small and very tightly kerned, and it just looks like MHIMN INHNM NMNMMIN MNHMHMNN for most of it...
As a chemistry major I appreciate the longest word (in letters) in your dataset, but my biology professor has it beat with perhydrocyclopentanophenanthrene - which he was quite surprised I remembered 1 semester after teaching it, and I still remember more than a decade later.
It's the name of the base molecule for various cholesterols.
But pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is longer no?
@@09DinoDinothat word has incorrect roots
It's invalid
@@Xnoob545 it’s still in the Oxford Dictionary so…..
This has an important application in spell checking, as most typing errors comes from missing a key and press one adjacent to it. So if you misspell a word, your spell checker should suggest the word with the closest “distance” to it.
You're right! Quick, someone code the software and sell it to bill gates, the world needs smart spellcheck!
Who knew this video might have a direct application lol
Isn't this how spell check works? I've always thought that's how it's done
Google and Shazam searches also work like this, just with many dimensions. The closer a result is to the input in the multidimensional space, the more relevant it is.
@@darrelstinkmeaner4673 last semester I had to do this for one of my CS classes. I created a (suboptimal) distance function between strings.
Fun fact: The word spa originated from the Belgian village Spa, renowned for its mineral springs. Unfortunately the inhabitants in Spa can't enjoy how pointy the word is because the AZERTY key layout is used there.
would matts code work for these keyboards as well
@@mikeburston9427 It would but the key coordinates would be different
on azerty it's still pretty sharp since it's just the a and q that swap places, the p stays where it is
so on azerty keyboards you dont play youre videogames with WASD but with WQSD ?
@@doofkopf2579 We play them using ZQSD actually !
I think it would be interesting to expand this for touchtyping and other keyboard layouts. A truly “optimal” layout matters less than your familiarity with it, but it is still interesting
This should work great with swipe typing(what's the real term?) on touch keyboards
Incredible that you can make a 30 min long video with this content. Love it!
"But Mr. Parker, what is the point of learning this stuff about vectors? It's totally useless in the real world!"
"You could calculate the pointiest words on a keyboard."
"Thanks, Mr. Parker! Now suddenly math is total fun for me."
Dr. Parker*
@@starpetalarts6668 He has a PhD? I didn't know that
This, made me find my inner British schoolboy voice, who speaks in perfect Received Pronunciation. Surely the second paragraph come in Matt's voice. Got those a while ago.
@@jurian0101 My inner voice was also a schoolboy, but with a transatlantic accent.
You don't study higher maths at school because it's "useful". You study maths and languages at school because they are the best ways to rigorously train your mind.
"See, everyday use of Pythagorus!"
"Hmm, interesting, and what is this everyday use?"
"Putting together a logic to measure distance travelled between keyboard keys..."
"I see. Could happen to anyone, any day."
Or Pythagoras, even :)
@@germansnowman The card at 5:45 celebrates lesser-known philosophizer Pythagorus.
@@ComradeTiki he actually is a really known mathematician.
@@lightdropp It’s misspelled
@@goldenwarrior1186 are you talking about me or the other guy?
At 5:40, Matt officially found the most useful application of the Pythagoras theorem, (I learnt it to be Pythagoras by the way, and not Pythagorus). Trinity Music College, London awarded him for this discovery and now it is used to produce papers for printing.
I love how as soon as you said type and minimum, before even saying how satisfying it was to type, the FIRST think my mind went to was that fluid up and down motion of typing. minimum. minimum. minimum, it's great
This is a lot of research into something that ultimately doesn't really matter all that much. And I appreciate every second of it!
It matters to speed typists lol
Isnt that first sentence what Brian David Gilberts mom told Brian once?
@@ichJONGleur It might be loosely based on that, yes :)
that's what standupmaths is all about
Thats math in a nutshell.
You may find it interesting that the word "minimum" is also one of the most favoured practice words in calligraphy for lowercase characters.
Oh yes it’s so fun to write
So many similar strokes but still not gibberish or drills
@@rosepinkskyblue Indeed, it works well to practice consistent spacing and slope.
in our local language, we use "namumunumunuan", which means "pretend ruler" or "a ruler that power trips", and "namumuhumuhunan" which means "pretending to invest" or something (it's hard to express the essence of the word in english). they are written in alphabet, yes.
@@snsnni The inclusion of multiple m, n, u, and h letters in the word would certainly make the word appropriate for calligraphic practice. What language is that?
@@bw0n6 it's tagalog, a filipino language. they do have long trains of m's, u's, n's, and h's bc of its repetition of syllables wc is a grammatic rule to change the words' meaning. so we have quite a handful of long calligraphy friendly words. it's a really strange and beautiful language.
As a german Maths student i really enjoy listen to ur vids when going to sleep.
Yesterday I got really upset as I understood lettuce every time u said letters O.o
I never had any difficulties with english accents till today :D
Just thought it would be fun to share .) Have a great day everyone!
13:40 I don't know why but this quote genuienly made me laugh
Also "water" is by far the most satisfying word to type
Huh this is actually really interesting as someone who types on their phone with the 'swipe' method, the intended audience for those distance calculations haha
I want to see him swipe these.
Also as far as swipe texting goes I enjoy "dearest" you should try it out. It's like a double loop de loop! ➰➰
There are many "swipe" words that aren't unique, so they cause problems. I wonder if there's a way to optimize the key layout for swiping...
@@HelgeMoulding It has been a major issue for me over the years making accidental typos, especially with had/has and if/is but on the other hand I also know where all the letters are on the keyboard really well so I don't know if a different layout would help.
It's possible to Latin this power?
Been using gesture typing for almost a decade. The many issue that comes up are straight line disambiguation, like "cores" and "chores" that I encountered today.
14:37 “Deess” is an obsolete word meaning goddess.
Deo/Deus being masculine for god, Deess being feminine for goddess, Deity being neutral.
The pronunciation would have been more like DAY-ESS, rather than DEE-S.
That makes so much more sense as a word now. Thank you!
@@alicesmith5361 welcome :)
Deess nuts
@@Redddragon that's the point, deess have no nuts :P
@@Redddragon Red Dragon more like…
RED DRAG'IN DEEZ NUT
Laughing at myself nerding out and thoroughly enjoying this stuff. I love it!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Asante Sana Matt.
*types "minimum"*
*mutes video, activates miniplayer, deactivates miniplayer, unmutes video, mutes video again*
ì think at least 50% of the viewers did so too haha
Underrated comment
Minimum
Minimum
@@Northtarctica you'll have to shout, he can't hear you.
I love how any mathematics involving spelling just devolves into "This string has this property. Yes, apparently it is a word. No, I've never heard of it either.".
Matt thank you for your hard work, you are like a unicorn, completely non replace able Thank goodness. Now I cannot use the type writer keyboard without being highly self conscious about how far I travel in hunting and pecking along. (like a lot of comp sci folk from the 70's and 80's we WERE NOT touch typists) now they teach touch typing in elementary school. I am thinking about taking all keyboards that are used, and melding them together into a hyper hybrid, having multiple vowels (like five e's, etc according to etoain schrdlu). Anyway I am in basement slamming multiple KB's together thanks to you, my friend. Have a Happy New Year!
This video is so much better trying all these words out. They are all so amazing!
“Terrorproof” is also obviously disqualified from being all on the top row due to that “f” at the end, Matt. 😬
Oof
thats why he said "if you disqualify it."
It's a Parker top row
He must have been writing on a Parker Typewriter.
Once again, Lucifer is absolutely right.
I have to say, I'm surprised that a man who types with two independently moving fingers didn't compute the word with the largest distance traveled when using two independently moving fingers. Sounds like an everyday practical application for ~*dynamic programming*~.
Papal would score low because the "a"s are handled by one finger and the "pl"s by the other.
My favorite words would be those where you type with the minimal distance for two fingers and and end up with the left hand on the right side and vice versa.
That would, of course, still be a bit of a Parker effort. Proper typing technique should naturally be considered, with fingers starting from natural position on the home row.
@@PaulPaulPaulson It probably gets even worse than that. There might be words which require the typist to physically turn their entire body around underneath their arms, or else have arm bones made of rubber, to type with the true minimum double finger distance.
Independent finger typists have no consistency and therefore it is not guerenteed that the p's or a's will be hit with the same finger.
It should be possible to compute the "two finger typing arm winding number" for entire books. How many times did Matt have to spin in a circle as part of typing humple pi, because of his steadfast dedication to optimal unoptimal typing? Only a series of ridiculous approximations resulting an ultimately meaningless number can say for sure.
I think that Angela would really like that little parody sequence. I know that my grandfather would. He used to watch the show every time it was on the air (this was back before cable was available in my area and right around when VCRs were becoming a thing).
I love the calculations of the angles for everyone's name at the end. So freaking random! ❤
Spoiler: this video features the debut of the "Parker spelling" of Pythagoras at 5:45!
*twitch*
I saw that too. If only I commented. A Parker Thought.
Yeah. I thought a PYTHaGORus was a kind of dinosaur (emphasizing the syllables PYTH and GOR).
Just spotted it myself, and checked the comments to see if someone else already noticed prior. Good job 👏
@@Markovisch ditto!
But Matt, what's the longest word you can type without crossing over a previous vector? What's the longest word with the most cross-overs? We need to know!
The longest words I can find without crossing over are CLAPPER and POLARITY. NUMBERY is also a great one, simply because it has "number" in it, but alas, it is a much shorter distance than CLARITY and POLARITY. I shall now anxiously await Matt's answer!
As for the most cross-overs? I'll throw RELINQUISHMENT into the hat, because the final M-E-N-T does a ton of damage by crossing lots of previous vectors at the same time. It's pretty cool that there isn't much crossing up till that point, and then there's a whole slew of it! Although I assume Matt's algorithm will find something better.
Some guesses of polygonal, zigzag and spiral words
3 letters pen, was, saw, car, ice, are, gut, hug, tug, mad
4 letters lock, rome, move, play, seed, bell, loop
5 letters point, poise, acari, adore
6 letters igloo, chores, closer, reload, remold
7 letters shallop
10 letters temporally
A fun words to type:
lollipop, polio
Reply if you find better ones
@@joeloftus6148 CLAPPER passes over P-E with E-R (as they're on the same plane) as does POLARITY (IT passes over RI, as does TY). The longest I can think of off the top of my head is "LINGER" or "ANGLER"
My guess for most is "STEWARDESSES".
@@murphy54000 Oh yeah, I knew there was a slight issue with "same plane" movement, but I was just following what Matt does in the video, ignoring all angles of 0 or 180 degrees. If you want to count "doesn't cross over" as "also doesn't repeat on itself", then it does indeed get much more limited. ANKLET improves ANGLER by 19.05mm!
wandered? also waster is a really tightly packed word that doesn’t cross any previous vectors
"Typewriter" being the longest word from the top row of a typewriter is so satisfying.
Thank you for helping me realise the importance of Pythagoras in my daily task of measuring the distance between keyboard keys so I can make a CZcams video about it!
Just kidding only taking the mick. 😂 love your stuff ❤️
"When you go up and down, you're in hypotenuse town"
Another classic catch phrase right there
still sounds like a square phrase to me.
I'm sure someone must already have asked this - is it possible, using these measurements and this database of words, to redefine the keyboard layout for minimum expected finger travel? I know that's kind of the concept of the Dvorak layout, but that was designed in 1936, without these kinds of tools.
Pretty sure Dvorak was also supposedly optimized for home-row touch-typing, not one-finger hunt-and-peck. The layout of something optimized for hunt-and-peck would be _much_ different I'd imagine.
We'd also need to know word popularity in regular usage.
Yes! There are lots of alternative layouts that are far superior to qwerty. Colemak is a popular one. Dvorak is another alternative. Workman, Halmak, RSTHD. Halmak was designed using a genetic algorithm. RSTHD was designed using simulated annealing. Lots of different designs to cater for different styles of typing.
@@cyanophage4351 I don't really care what goes on with the rest of my keyboard, but I want x, k, c, and d in that order on the bottom row of mine.
There's a ton of layouts, there's some even designed as a balanced measure for people who know qwerty but want to improve ergonomics with as few alterations as possible.
Thanks for the shout-out during the Mathematics, He Wrote intro sequence. Hello to you too, and yes, it was worth pausing it to see what you were typing.
28:43 "And my internet service provider has no idea I'm doing this." [posts public video with 600K+ views]
I have never experienced a more "this is for my audience, and we get each-other" video in my life. I love this video so much, but can't think of anyone who I can share it with, who isn't already a subscriber.
"Here is some meaningless text for me to type on the typewriter in the opening tiles of the Mathematics, He Wrote video. It may be one of the more silly things I have ever done for my CZcams channels. While I'm here I should thank my Patreon supporters who mean I can spend my days doing this. And hello to [obscured] pause the video to work out exactly what I was typing the [obscured] I hope it was worth it. I know that is exactly what I w[obscured]."
You're welcome.
"[...] And hello to everyone who will pause the video to work out exactly what I was typing in those shots. [...] I know that is exactly what I would do.
I should make it clear that this is my own typewriter which I already had. I did not waste Patreon money on this. It was [obscured]"
You're a life saver, normally I'd spend 20 minutes trying to read it all but this time I was smarted and knew someone already did it. May the gods of maths smile upon you and all your calculators.
This is some meaningless text for me to type on the typewriter
during the opening tiles of the Mathematics, He Wrote vidoe
which may be one of the more silly things I have ever done for my
CZcams channel. While I'm here I should thank my Patreon supporters
who m### mean I can spend my days doing this. And hello to everyone who will
pause the video to work out exactly what I was typing in these shots.
I hope it was worth it. I know that is exactly what I would do.
And I should make it clear that this is my own typewriter which
I already had. I did not waste Patreonn money on this. It was
the minimum amount of effort to get it out of storage. Hmmm.
"Minimum." That is as much fun to type on a traditional typewriter
as is on a modern keyboard. Minimum. Takes a bit more effort. But
is to#tally worht it. I also love using the physical SHIFT key
on an old typewriter. The shift lock actually &&&& locks the typewriter
in the shiftedposition. And would you believe that this isn't even
the only typewriter I own? The other one is from the &0's though and
far too modern, &&&
MATHEMATICS# MATHEMATICS,
HE WROTE
Notes: #s are overtyped characters; &s are characters I couldn't read. The text was written using a monospaced font, but the alignment of the two bottom chunks isn't perfect for the typewritten layout. Also, due to inconsistency in the mechanical carriage return, the alignment of characters in the body of the text won't perfectly match the typewritten page.
Thank you
This video is very Cool, Thank You for making this!
That intro was amazing. It takes me back.
I love the gradual decline from “incredibly excited about these findings” to “depressed this is how I’m spending my life” present in this video.
Isn't that Matt Parker energy in a nutshell.
I never took you for a "hunt and peck" style of typist, Matt.
Scandalous
And he's legally represented by Hunt & Pecker.
No hunting on the Parker Square.
Typewriters often make you do that bc you have to punch the keys so hard lol.
@@thoop6795 Disagree. I've used several in my life and while they were newer than this they never required hunt and peck. You just adjust your press down
I am a single finger on each hand typer as well. Matt, you are seen, you are valid, you matter.
This channel fascinates, confuses and frightens me, all at the same time.
"A use of pythagoras in everyday life". AH yes, everyday life. I certainly often feel it necessary to find the distance between keys. Such a relatable moment
I need to enter those relatable moments in my rela-table *spreadsheet.*
In German, „zog“ is actually a real word (the past tense of „ziehen“) but we cannot enjoy its pointiness because we commonly use the QWERTZ layout.
on QWERTZ keybosrd zog is actually really pointy
Well, in russian culture ZOG is well-known as a name of an organization in a particular conspiracy theory. So I wonder if Matt avoided the word because it is quite racist, because it is an abbreviation (are those "words"?), or because it is not that recognizable in English?
@@ssdd28561 I'm not English, but I speak it quite fluently. That said I've never heard or read any reference to the Russian word ZOG, actually in the west we are generally pretty ignorant about the russian and estern european cultures. It's no surprise given the cold war and all the propaganda associated with it up to the 90s
I'v never have this much fun with my keyboard. I am still stunned by word "free", "ask", I learned out that "knowledge" is pretty complex, while "kill" is totally simple.
What matt was saying about the type writer determining the setup of a keyboard reminded me of how horses determined the width of modern cars!
Writing English sentences exclusively utilizing minimally seven-digit dictionary entries produces difficult challenges. Aforesaid sentences inherently introduce cumbersome wordings, because restricting letters usually prohibits preposition utilization. Impeding further similarly helpful language constructs complicates phrasing likewise.
Bruh
Does seven-digit count as one word or two?
@@angelodc1652 I'm a german. It is our hobby to construct single long words out of smaller words such as "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz". Therefore I vote for counting "seven-digit" as one word.
@@angelodc1652 if it’s hyphenated it’s one word
@@pypeapple Not-always-it-isn't.
I love that calculating keyboard geometry for fun is "everyday life" to this guy. Never change.
Another artifact of the typewriter keyboard is the QWERTY sequence. It kept typing speed from having collisions of the type arms in the basket.
As we all know, calculating the exact distance between each and every pair of letters on the keyboard for a mathemathical youtube video is a thing i do in everyday life, thus pythagoras is a very important and obviously useful thing you use in your day to day life.
When we were making Swype, I explored a lot of similar things. Our dictionary for English was smaller, but the words we used were first categorized by usage frequency. Some of the words you chose in this video weren't ones we had in our dictionary, but it was still interesting to explore.
We also came up with word art. By changing the trace fade timeout so that it wouldn't disappear until you start the next word, you could draw pictures which were words. Because Swype was looking in its dictionary of words, the precision could be off with respect to what key you actually went to, so the art could be a little more expressive and you'd still get the word you intended. "BANANA" was a word which could be traced and you would have a nice picture of a banana with the ridges on the fruit visible in the sketch. My favorite was "COSMIC" because with the tolerances I described you could create an elongated star -- very swooshy and stylistic.
What a small world! I was just thinking how his distance and angle calculations are actually quite relevant for swipe-style keyboards and was disappointed that he didn’t make that point in the video. But here you are actually having developed them! That’s super cool, thanks for sharing that story :)
Swype rocks. Swype on a QWERTY phone keyboard is very satisfying in my opinion.
17:28 Matt's dog makes a brief cameo in the bottom right of the screen.
You can also see similar thing @ 16:12 but this time at bottom left just behind the keyboard
Dog product
Puppy
Trying to figure out the distances between keys ....... That's everyday life for ya. Love it
This is positioned very high on Pointless Knowledge ladder.
Nice. “Mathematics He Wrote” deserves a prime time series.
I look forward to reading your paper on this subject at the next Annals of Recreational Lexicography, Graphology and Typing.
Disappointed Matt didn't research which word has the largest total enclosed area, from all the enclosed sub-areas that the connecting lines sometimes produce. Surely there will be a Part 2!
Probably something like covariance.
A more easily computable version could be done by using the Shoelace theorem which includes negative areas by calculating the determinant of a matrix with all the coordinates in order.
Yes please
This video is great for the out of context compilations it will contribute to alone
Me watching this video coincided with my shift to ortholinear keyboards and I am now trying to replicate Matt's work on the layout.
yes POOP has 2 movements, but also requires a push in the middle without any movement
“Terrorproof” doesn’t just fit on the top row, though, does it lol
Terrorpoo does, though.
Don't worry, it's a parker square away from all being on the top row
I came here to say this
Also came here to say this
It's a Parker word
Absolutely the highest quality intro ever!
I spent too many seconds wondering what tune your typewriter intro reminded me of, before realizing that it was your usual intro
For those who are wondering about "Deess": Deessing (pronounced "De-Essing") is the process of reducing sibilance in a voice recording.
Great video as always Matt!
And it doesn't have anything to do with nutz ... Who would have known.
There's actually another meaning to this one that I found online: it's an archaic word that's basically the feminine version of "deity", i.e. a goddess.
@@xnossisx5950 yes this is what I found too
@@xnossisx5950 Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).
from latin "deus" (god) and "dea" (goddess). Since the English language often uses the -ess ending to give a word a feminine connotation we can se how the word "deess" can stem from the latin radix "de-"
About words that are fun to spell out: Even though it's again a more scientific term, and the English version is actually split in three words rather than the single word in German, "aluminium minimum immunity" (or "Aluminiumminimumimmunität" for that matter) looks satisfying, especially if written in cursive.
It’s like a waltz with your fingers on the keyboard
this is good.
The best way I can describe the feeling typing Aluminiumminimumimmunität with one finger:
beeb beb bebbep brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr bebbeb beb beeeeb ...
Aluminiumminimumimmunität
Oh yes, if fingers could swoon.
It's especially fun on a mobile, that last A when you hold and give it the old electric slide across the keyboard to the umlaut. So fun!
It's a pretty good tongue-twister, too.
"It's an every-day practical application of the dot product." 😅 This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for a great way to start my day.
god I love this channel lmao
This could be a fun way of comparing the alternative layouts, like Dvorak and colemak, no? Disregarding the fact that they are explicitly made for touch typing, maybe this could test if they would be better for the "double hunt and peck approach" as well.
Then optimized layouts would be a circle keyboard. Bunch the keys as close together as possible. Put most popular letters in middle (vowels) and bridge out.
@@simcowgames981 Very interesting applications in hyper-realistic sci-fi media, personal communications devices with a wildly different keyboard layout.
the main reason I learned Dvorak was to get away from the double hunt and peck cause none of your muscle memory translates
@@he1d1_ yeah same, I started with colemak because I had really nothing to lose haha
wait what are dvorak and volemak???
I feel like you missed two strong hypothesis of why minimum is so fun to type: repeating (similar length) paths and consistently similar angles (ignoring 0/360° ones)
It is surely the "common pattern" that makes it.
If your hypothesis is correct, bananas should be very fun to type. and indeed it is. To me, switching between hands also helps with the fun, so bananas is more fun than minimum :)
I like it because it rocks back and forth with two fingers and because it's an odd number of letters long, meaning that it also sounds nice to type.
Loving the intro ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
"Skepticism" is an absolute journey across the keyboard fr
As both a recreational mathematician *and* a recreational linguist, I can't express quite how much I love this video. Absolutely amazing, Matt, so good!
The fact that Matt provides all the files and stuff he uses, not only 1: has made my University career so much easier, but 2. also makes this my favorite favorite channel because I can mess with and experiment more with what Matt already did
I've always found the word powerpoint to be very satisfying. You just roll your fingers along the top row 3 times in a row
This is something I never knew I needed to know, but I'm happy that I know it..... I think.
I’ve always enjoyed “dereference”… you have that satisfying cluster with the left finger, then swoop down for that renegade N, and head back to close it down with the C/E.
Thank you.
I prefer "dereferred", for the funky dance without having to collect the loose ends
I was looking for this comment. I type the word "references" a lot at work. I actually have a list of "fun words to type", including references, minimum, column, and restricted.
or just shift-8
Deference
As a joiner, 'The fence post problem' is enough to explain the letters/gaps disparity. It appears all the time in joinery. Calculating the space between spindles in a balustrade is made more complicated by the fact that there is one more spindle than gap (Counting newels as spindles). When calculating the width of doors for a wardrobe you have to keep in mind that there will be one more divider than the number of doors. And of course, you always need one more fencepost than fence panels.
Why yes... of course. Newels. And Spindles. I know all about those.
Same in metal works whenever you want a row of holes at a certain distance along a certain length.
Gets real nice if each end needs another distance from the workpiece's edges xD
Hint: just remember the formula for the last one as it is more versatile and the "standard" fence case is applicable aswell
...unless the fence is a closed loop.
Chaparajos*
This is a fascinating video to watch as someone who uses a dvorak keyboard.
Matt looks so happy typing papal and it it brings me joy
13:42 “you’re in hypotenuse town” sounds like what a tangent hears when it moves into a neighborhood of sines and cosines
Because tan doesn't need the hypotenuse to be calculated?
20:00 So what I’m hearing is that King Zog of Albania has the pointiest possible name for anyone to type
Also yes I promise King Zog of Albania is a real person. My favorite fact about him is that he may have been the heaviest smoker in human history, consuming over 100 cigarettes everyday.
"zog" is also used as an expletive by Orks in the Warhammer 40k universe!
One of the most weirdest trivia i've seen but this video is all about a weird trivia so very fitting
@@neurofiedyamato8763 It's a historical footnote, thus it is my duty to make it known lol
This video was so great! Also, what about the most satisfying sentence to type?
I find it satisfying to type "fox fox fox fox " over and over. Four keys, two to each hand, and conveniently alternating. Gets a nice rhythm going when you get up to speed.
Hey Matt, audio guy here! To "de-ess" something is to take out the high pitched sibilance, eg. dampening the S-sounds of a vocal performance. I think that's the "deess" in question!
Since Matt said he found it used it old books, I suspect it’s actually obsolete word for “goddess”
Yep. That's what the OED reckons too, which is just about as definitive as you can get in a descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) language like English.
de-ess these nutssssssssss
@@joemcalister7105 cmon loser you could have gotten it better than that
de-ess deess nuts
deess nuts
"When you go up and down, you're in hypotenuse town" This is the kind of high brow math humor I signed up for. :D
i love how that matt putted grayish hair in the typewriter section and just started doing random things(jokingly)
Phrase use minimalization is the construction of words to replace phrases, reducing word repetition.
Now the one burning question left is coming up with the optimal keyboard distribution that on average lets you travel the least distance for the words of the english vocabulary (or if we wanna get spicy with it, the most 'brexit-y' keyboard that somewhat minimizes the distance traveled for english but vastly increases it for, say, french or german)
Can't post links on yt but there's an article called "Optimizing 19th Century Typewriters" by Nathan Brixius that does this for an interesting real world one dimensional typewriter design. IIRC he found proving the optimal solution was optimal would take a quadrillion years because there's so many possibilities.
The DVORAK layout is sort of that. I mean, I don’t think it’s mathematically optimal, but it is better than QWERTY
@@7452Michael mathematically optimal would require knowing how common the words are and that depends on the context. Most people will never write some words even though they are rather common (scientific terms for example)
@@Houshalter You totally can post links on CZcams.
@@Henrix1998 there is data for that (look up most common words in English on Wikipedia).
Regarding how we kept the misalignment of keys despite not having any mechanical reason to do so; The Razer Tartarus keypad uses straight columns, and let me tell you, it took a LONG time for me to get used to that, and it ruined my ability to type on a normal keyboard for quite a while after I did get used to it. I actually experienced physical pain as I adjusted to the straight key columns. And while I can type just fine again on a normal keyboard, I to this day cannot play games on a normal keyboard because of the offset. It's truly odd.
The greatest force for keeping the exact layout is that millions of us have been seriously trained to do 10 finger typing without looking at the keys. Which means all positions must match the learned positions closely enough to not hit a different key when having normal human tendency to be off within each key surface.
@@johndododoe1411 I use 6 fingers though. Really 10?
@@johndododoe1411
You can swap keys around and pick it up surprisingly fast. If you literally randomized the letters, in 24h of typing you'd be at least 80% your original speed, and if the randomness wasn't randomly bad, you might even get as good or even better, if it just happens to fit your typing style somehow.
@@kindlin That doesn't change the positions of keys, only the char associated with each position. It might be more difficult if the positions changed.
@@kindlin As someone using multiple keyboards every day, inconsistency ruins everything. And 24 hour retraining seems like a myth based on fast learners or people without thorough training and experience with the standard layout. But switching keyboards multiple times a day makes 24 hours way too long. I need to switch in seconds to get things done.
I reckon that you can make the link between letters & gaps linear is by always starting at the spacebar, and not counting it amongst the letters used. Logically it also makes sense, since you usualy start a word after pressing the spacebar. This would also make the papa & papal discussion more intuitive!
Also, a better way to resolve the confusion is to note that the *average* of the numbers is ~125.85, so clearly the average cannot be reduced further unless the new contribution is less than the average thus far.
It's only confusing because this isn't strictly an average, but the same rules for the final value apply. Anything more than the current final value will not make it go down.
Typing "Wert" so the german word for "value" is just satisfying