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    The State of Indiana nearly passed a law which would have made Pi equal 3.2 - strange but true.
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  • @nerdbot4446
    @nerdbot4446 Před 8 lety +6404

    Constants in the Imperial System:
    Pi = 3.2
    Slice = 0.76
    Crumb = 0.04

    • @swegnope600
      @swegnope600 Před 8 lety +41

      +Patrick Star lol

    • @Sa_tycker_jag
      @Sa_tycker_jag Před 8 lety +37

      +Patrick Star oh, i love pi. Especially on apples

    • @Catishcat
      @Catishcat Před 8 lety +21

      +Patrick Star GALACTIC IMPERIAL SYSTEM

    • @philipp2236
      @philipp2236 Před 8 lety +7

      lol

    • @matrixphijr
      @matrixphijr Před 8 lety +3

      +Patrick Star Your pic totally makes that comment. For many reasons.

  • @christophergudgeon9902
    @christophergudgeon9902 Před 8 lety +8046

    hey bro i can remember 39 digits of pi how many do you know?
    i know ALL of them bro.
    really bro? prove it.
    3.2 bro

  • @dangiscongrataway2365
    @dangiscongrataway2365 Před 7 lety +6656

    Pft, here's the real solution:
    r=0
    boom a square with 0 area has the same area as a circle with a radius of 0. Ha.

  • @cuddlybunion341
    @cuddlybunion341 Před 4 lety +1127

    Just imagine if you would have to pay Pythagoras for using his theroem...

    • @aradhya_purohit
      @aradhya_purohit Před 3 lety +18

      Well, interesting, but there is some doubt that Pythagoras actually proved it.

    • @NihilistEmier
      @NihilistEmier Před 3 lety +51

      @@aradhya_purohit no ,
      Pythagoras did prove it but didn't discover it .

    • @aradhya_purohit
      @aradhya_purohit Před 3 lety +16

      @@NihilistEmier yeah actually that's what I wanted to point out that it is not Pythagoras' theorem. Thanks btw for the correction.

    • @seanleith5312
      @seanleith5312 Před 3 lety +3

      An Indian mathematician is like a scientist from Ethiopia.

    • @user-fo1nk3pd1t
      @user-fo1nk3pd1t Před 3 lety +9

      Well we wouldn't use it because it was wrong. I have no interest in describing the ratio between a circle's diameter and it's circumference as 3.2.
      Mathematicians would've realized the mistake pretty quickly and just used another variable or some other definition. Engineers don't use flat earth physics and they wouldn't use 3.2

  • @jpdude98
    @jpdude98 Před 8 lety +4627

    Edwin is the Fine Bros of 1897

    • @jakobdobner8712
      @jakobdobner8712 Před 8 lety +19

      made my day xD

    • @adrianbornabasic7499
      @adrianbornabasic7499 Před 8 lety +11

      +jpdude98 Haha

    • @Lastrevio
      @Lastrevio Před 8 lety +7

      +jpdude98
      HAHAHAH XDD =]]]]]] You made my day sir.

    • @hikarikouno
      @hikarikouno Před 8 lety +24

      +jpdude98 top kek m8 I r8
      3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286
      208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481
      117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233
      786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006
      606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146
      951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749
      567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190
      702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827
      785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923
      542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049
      951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010
      003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882
      35378759375195778185778053217122680661300192787661119.../8

    • @spartan0xdd340
      @spartan0xdd340 Před 8 lety +3

      And i am a 3.14lot

  • @piguy314159
    @piguy314159 Před 9 lety +3147

    "Piguy32" just doesn't sound as cool...

    • @ikasu00
      @ikasu00 Před 9 lety +34

      Why not Piguy3

    • @yiuyeungkan157
      @yiuyeungkan157 Před 8 lety +33

      ***** change it to piguy355113 cuz pi = 355/113

    • @jasanborn9700
      @jasanborn9700 Před 8 lety +113

      yiu yeung Kan Pi does not equal 355/113. It's irrational and can't be set as a ratio of a/b where a and b are rational.

    • @user-qs7su4xy8d
      @user-qs7su4xy8d Před 8 lety +7

      +Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen Actually Pi is closer to 22/7.

    • @piguy314159
      @piguy314159 Před 8 lety +104

      Tim Ander Pi = 3.14159265...
      355/113 = 3.14159292...
      22/7 = 3.14285714...
      355/113 matches to six decimal places; 22/7 to only two.

  • @buddermybacon2805
    @buddermybacon2805 Před 5 lety +586

    *when you say your password is the last five digits of pi*

    • @defaultkid99
      @defaultkid99 Před 4 lety +16

      wait a minute

    • @adamTwobe
      @adamTwobe Před 4 lety +83

      hey whats your password
      oh it's just [SYNTAX ERROR]

    • @auxencefromont1989
      @auxencefromont1989 Před 4 lety +17

      00032 ?

    • @icycloud6823
      @icycloud6823 Před 4 lety +20

      @@auxencefromont1989 If pi were just 3.2000... then your password if it were the last five digits of pi would just be: 00000 lol

    • @auxencefromont1989
      @auxencefromont1989 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Ivan-yy4ng thats the joke

  • @user-qh5jk1mn5i
    @user-qh5jk1mn5i Před 4 lety +143

    I know all of the digits of pi, i just forget which order they’re in

    • @Camp_RB
      @Camp_RB Před 2 lety +10

      Yeah I also know the digits of Pi. I know the digits of any number, equation, any thing related to maths.
      They are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0.

    • @currypenguin
      @currypenguin Před 2 lety +1

      @@Camp_RB Prodigy

    • @supernoodles908
      @supernoodles908 Před 2 lety +1

      @@currypenguin someone tell this guy about different bases

    • @peelysl
      @peelysl Před rokem +1

      @@supernoodles908 numbers with different bases would still involve those numbers lol

    • @JJean64
      @JJean64 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@peelysl
      Not with bases larger than 10

  • @tyleramato4526
    @tyleramato4526 Před 8 lety +2305

    And my state has embarrassed me again, thanks Indiana.

    • @CathyInBlue
      @CathyInBlue Před 6 lety +28

      We have to learn to own our own faults and learn from them. For instance, how many meteorologists has our state pounded into an insane asylum?

    • @JaxMerrick
      @JaxMerrick Před 5 lety +43

      I'm just glad it wasn't Florida this time. Sorry Tyler. You guys can have a gaff this time.

    • @lukeebduck647
      @lukeebduck647 Před 4 lety +14

      Virat Kohli ironic

    • @Gabo-wg3dv
      @Gabo-wg3dv Před 4 lety +11

      @@ViratKohli-jj3wj America bad

    • @bigbruhmento7731
      @bigbruhmento7731 Před 4 lety +1

      ikr

  • @rkrokberg
    @rkrokberg Před 8 lety +2481

    Wait, squaring the circle is the first Numberphile video I watched! I have come full circle!

    • @gmanhr
      @gmanhr Před 8 lety +162

      +rkrokberg Don't you mean full square?

    • @VestinVestin
      @VestinVestin Před 8 lety +246

      +rkrokberg ...and now you're back to square one.

    • @ryanamberger
      @ryanamberger Před 8 lety +14

      Piception

    • @RexGalilae
      @RexGalilae Před 8 lety +1

      +rkrokberg
      DAMN! SAME HERE!!

    • @MegaMGstudios
      @MegaMGstudios Před 7 lety +1

      rkrokberg on a video about pi

  • @Pyramid1501
    @Pyramid1501 Před 7 lety +595

    3.14 - Are you threatening me Master Goodwin?
    Goodwin - The senate will decide your fate
    3.14 - I am the Senate!!!

  • @XandWacky
    @XandWacky Před 8 lety +762

    Oh Indiana, you embarrass yourself again...

    • @juliannelatimer6218
      @juliannelatimer6218 Před 8 lety

      xD

    • @computo2000
      @computo2000 Před 8 lety +46

      At least they don't have a law that prohibits having sexual intercourse with a porcupine, do they, Florida?

    • @XandWacky
      @XandWacky Před 8 lety +41

      computo2000 Or how about a law that says it's illegal to fart in public restrooms after 6 PM on Thursdays. Your move, Florida.

    • @wed3972
      @wed3972 Před 7 lety +6

      Come on, I live in Indiana!

    • @zachwayt3874
      @zachwayt3874 Před 7 lety +1

      Same, lol

  • @MrAccidental238
    @MrAccidental238 Před 10 lety +502

    Even if you rounded Pi up to two significant figures, it would be 3.1, not 3.2.

    • @PastyMancer
      @PastyMancer Před 5 lety +42

      It would be 3.2 if you round it 'up'. Only 3.1 if you round it down

    • @sweetberries4611
      @sweetberries4611 Před 4 lety +67

      @@PastyMancer No, what you've shown is ceiling (as you said rounding up) but rounding is different

    • @nestor1208
      @nestor1208 Před 4 lety +11

      3.1492 -> 3.15 -> 3.2

    • @alex95sang52
      @alex95sang52 Před 4 lety +108

      @@nestor1208 pi is 3.141592 not 3.1492... And even if it was 3.1492, it would be rounded as 3.1

    • @AridChannelOfficialSG
      @AridChannelOfficialSG Před 4 lety +4

      3.1415... to 2 s.f. is 3.1.

  • @DanDart
    @DanDart Před 8 lety +321

    James Grime has the shiniest cheeks of any mathematician.

    • @vaishnavidasika5866
      @vaishnavidasika5866 Před 4 lety +10

      He has luminous singularities of transcript light upon his spherical jaw musclar case. I regret commenting this.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka Před 3 lety +1

      O^-^O

  • @delfninchen
    @delfninchen Před 4 lety +63

    I love how happy James seems when he's telling any story

  • @DoAllDogsLikeMarmite
    @DoAllDogsLikeMarmite Před 7 lety +431

    I think the scarier part, to be honest, is the attempt to patent pi. Obviously, even if it went through, it obviously wasn't pi, but... just imagine if there was legal precedent for patenting it.

    • @oenrn
      @oenrn Před 7 lety +42

      He didn't try to patent pi, but that specific mathematical proof.

    • @DoAllDogsLikeMarmite
      @DoAllDogsLikeMarmite Před 7 lety +13

      I'm not sure, the sources I can find seem to say he was trying to patent his methods for squaring the circle. Though I can't find any direct information on the patent application itself, or even what ended up happening to it.

    • @MamboBean343
      @MamboBean343 Před 6 lety +3

      They never said anything in the video about patents…

    • @Slayer8957
      @Slayer8957 Před 2 lety +10

      Theres a huge difference from patenting the solution to squaring the circle problem, and patenting Pi itself.

    • @marcusviniciusdoprado7508
      @marcusviniciusdoprado7508 Před 11 měsíci +5

      I mean, with all do respect, It’s USA, so we can assume that it was very nearly possible to have happened

  • @morphx666
    @morphx666 Před 11 lety +88

    I coded a small (and simple) physics program to emulate the basics of a pool table (well, the physics of its balls actually) and decided to try changing the value of Pi to 3.2 and the thing just went nuts!
    Actually, the movement of the balls looked like it was being influenced by quantum physics!

  • @Hoka_moka
    @Hoka_moka Před 10 lety +837

    pi is exactly three. EDIT: because I’m still getting comments 6 years later. My comment is a reference to an episode of the simpsons where professor frink was forced to loudly declare pi is exactly 3 to get the attention of his roused peers during a presentation.

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom Před 6 lety +6

      If you assume that 1 is pi/3.... sure thing bro. GL rewriting all other constants to match it though.

    • @MunkiZee
      @MunkiZee Před 6 lety +69

      It's a quote from The Simpsons which references this story

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 Před 5 lety +2

      well if your in a pinch 3 will be better than nothig

    • @whitedeath1364
      @whitedeath1364 Před 5 lety +3

      That is just Pure evil!

    • @vitalnutrients744
      @vitalnutrients744 Před 5 lety +1

      4*

  • @rainingm644
    @rainingm644 Před 2 lety +12

    The fact that the video is on 3.2 mil views (for now) is poetic

  • @DiscoDerpAnimations
    @DiscoDerpAnimations Před 6 lety +799

    "pi is a social construct"

  • @phancypheline
    @phancypheline Před 10 lety +461

    In base π, π is 10... I wonder what it would look like in base √5.

  • @AmphibiousButterfly
    @AmphibiousButterfly Před 9 lety +251

    Why 3.2!?! Why not 3.14 or a simple 3.15 or something.... I get that he had to make it a constructible number but... why 3.2? That seems a bit much

    • @ikasu00
      @ikasu00 Před 9 lety +76

      Why not just 0

    • @themonkifier7474
      @themonkifier7474 Před 9 lety +4

      Michael Trethewey Because either 3.2 is rounding up of pi OR because 3.2 is easier to use in calculations than 3.14 \ 3.15.

    • @Forthelemon
      @Forthelemon Před 8 lety +71

      DerpyGaming1 Except you wouldn't round up; you would round down. It should be 3.1

    • @themonkifier7474
      @themonkifier7474 Před 8 lety +1

      But it isn't.

    • @Scootaloose
      @Scootaloose Před 8 lety +30

      +Michael Trethewey Man... screw decimals, just use 3

  • @Theraot
    @Theraot Před 7 lety +116

    I present to you the James Grime Inch: 4:01

    • @champion171299
      @champion171299 Před 7 lety +2

      Alfonso J. Ramos If you compare it to the size that he mentioned before the inch, an inch would be that small maybe even smaller.

    • @-YELDAH
      @-YELDAH Před 7 lety +1

      Alfonso J. Ramos is

    • @morphmu
      @morphmu Před 5 lety +15

      The _Grinch_

    • @DrKaii
      @DrKaii Před rokem

      @@morphmu I am so sorry this comment didn't make it

  • @leepoling4897
    @leepoling4897 Před 8 lety +44

    At this point Ramanujan is my hero. He's been coming up in absolutely every numberphile video I've tried to watch

  • @dlseller
    @dlseller Před 9 lety +84

    Yeah...I reside in the great state of Indiana. I was in my second semester of undergraduate in mathematics when one of my calc profs told us this story. He is a mathematical historian on the side and one of his electives is on the history of mathematics. In defense of Indiana and America, Dr Waldo ,who educated the Senate and stopped the bill, was from Purdue University.

    • @johnjackson9767
      @johnjackson9767 Před 4 lety +1

      You don't have to defend your state. There are plenty of moonbats everywhere.

    • @domdom6575
      @domdom6575 Před 3 lety +1

      John_Jackson

    • @jacobpeters5458
      @jacobpeters5458 Před rokem

      @@johnjackson9767 idk man, 1897 but still for them to pass a Bill....I'd be kinda embarrassed too

    • @christopherwellman2364
      @christopherwellman2364 Před 11 měsíci

      Where's Dr. Waldo buried?

  • @legoyoda8431
    @legoyoda8431 Před 5 lety +293

    The guy that said pi=3.2 is so evil! How dare you put tax on a mathematical idea!

    • @shugaroony
      @shugaroony Před 5 lety +27

      Got what he deserved, i.e. ridicule.

    • @jo_nm9484
      @jo_nm9484 Před 4 lety

      😂

    • @nestor1208
      @nestor1208 Před 4 lety +7

      I've seen a t-shirt with e=π=3.
      *Big oof*

    • @levicusx
      @levicusx Před 4 lety +10

      Нестор Капленко it's called the "fundamental theorem of engineering"

    • @neogenzim1995
      @neogenzim1995 Před 3 lety +3

      welcome to america. money money money.

  • @severanceflames2201
    @severanceflames2201 Před 3 lety +5

    2:24, Waldo has finally been found!

  • @halonothing1
    @halonothing1 Před 6 lety +5

    This reminds me of something I read a while back about, I think it was an American high school teacher, who claimed he solved the problem of dividing by zero by inventing a constant with the value 1/0... BRILLIANT!

  • @marctang3802
    @marctang3802 Před 5 lety +11

    3:58 Classic Parker Square!

  • @zacharykasper3692
    @zacharykasper3692 Před 6 lety +3

    I live in Indiana and once we tried to tried to make schools teach pi as equal to 3 instead of 3.14 and also in schools the acceleration due to gravity is sometimes taught as 10 m/s^2 instead of 9.8 m/s^2

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja Před 5 lety

      Norwegian schools teach _g_ = 9.81 m/s^2, but tell the pupils to use _g_ ≈ 10 for any mental calculations.

    • @methatis3013
      @methatis3013 Před 5 měsíci

      Difference is though, g is barely a constant

  • @klobiforpresident2254
    @klobiforpresident2254 Před 7 lety +65

    In my native tongue "squaring the circle" actually is equal to Sisyphus Work.

    • @eoghan.5003
      @eoghan.5003 Před 4 lety +3

      Interesting. In English "to square the circle" is sometimes used to mean "to find a way to make seemingly contradictory things be congruent"

  • @MusicDecomposer
    @MusicDecomposer Před 4 lety +263

    Why would they change math? Math. Is. Math!

  • @rohentahir4696
    @rohentahir4696 Před 4 lety +14

    He might not have found a solution for squaring the circle, but at least he found Waldo.

  • @CliveReyes
    @CliveReyes Před 7 lety +55

    Now I wanna know the math puns they used to mock him so badly.

    • @watamidoing8131
      @watamidoing8131 Před 6 lety +38

      Come on guys. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He was just... Cutting corners!
      Sure, sure. But he's still a Square.

    • @SC-zq6cu
      @SC-zq6cu Před 5 lety +2

      oh no

    • @aadisahni
      @aadisahni Před 3 lety +1

      @@watamidoing8131 yeah, I mean he had to go square 1 by getting taught.

    • @mr22guy
      @mr22guy Před 3 lety

      He told the police about his accomplices in this scheme so they, too, could be rounded up.

  • @NetAndyCz
    @NetAndyCz Před 6 lety +4

    Love this story, read about it in a book about pi years ago:) They were so lucky to have mathematician there stopping by.

  • @eduardbass839
    @eduardbass839 Před 5 lety +16

    As an engineer student i give you 3 and not 1 more!

  • @sebastianholzl4668
    @sebastianholzl4668 Před 4 lety +9

    1:19 - "How kind of him"
    shots fired

  • @mrmacken
    @mrmacken Před 7 lety +20

    I gotta love living in Indiana. We're always in the news somewhere

  • @Tletna
    @Tletna Před 6 lety

    I've heard this story multiple times and it still astonishes me to this day.

  • @JanBinnendijk
    @JanBinnendijk Před 4 lety +3

    I often use 22/7 or 355/113 as approximations if i don't have a calculator around.. especially 355/133 is quite accurate

  • @MogManDog
    @MogManDog Před 9 lety +69

    I don't think a law in Indiana would be that relevant for the rest of the world.

    • @bradirv
      @bradirv Před 6 lety +1

      They said that it would be patented everywhere but Indiana

    • @luizpaulo6535
      @luizpaulo6535 Před 6 lety +4

      Not outside US

    • @bobobsen
      @bobobsen Před 2 lety +1

      You think it was relevant in other countries?

    • @whirl3690
      @whirl3690 Před 2 lety

      @@bradirv State laws can't apply to the whole nation. If New York passes a law that New York is the only state allowed to say "kerfuffle," it does absolutely nothing, because other states don't follow the laws of New York.

  • @redpenguin5837
    @redpenguin5837 Před 9 lety +157

    SO GLAD THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN, I wouldn't be able to say 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 anymore

    • @MaximilianBerkmann
      @MaximilianBerkmann Před 9 lety +7

      Same but in my case to 160dp

    • @egonics2068
      @egonics2068 Před 8 lety +1

      +Riley Voss I've memorized it to 3.141592653589793238462643383279

    • @leslieshapiro5466
      @leslieshapiro5466 Před 8 lety

      3.1415926535897932384626433832950 ;)

    • @yiuyeungkan157
      @yiuyeungkan157 Před 8 lety +1

      +John McGovern yes, I have remembered 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716239932718

    • @coopergates9680
      @coopergates9680 Před 8 lety +2

      +John McGovern Now do it in dozenal, hexadecimal, vigesimal, etc. etc.

  • @minerscale
    @minerscale Před 6 lety +6

    3:48 I guess you could call it a Parker Square.

  • @zacharyscottgraham
    @zacharyscottgraham Před 3 lety +9

    As a Hoosier I can honestly say this is not that crazy when compared with some of the other whacky stuff that has been passed into law here

  • @madsloth601
    @madsloth601 Před 9 lety +558

    could've only happened in murica

    • @hyrekandragon2665
      @hyrekandragon2665 Před 7 lety +25

      To be fair if you understood US politics in the late 19th century, corruption was a big thing so obviously someone just bribed people to pass the bill along.

    • @dclefevre
      @dclefevre Před 7 lety +25

      Wow. I am so glad we got past that *snark*.

    • @therealspaghetti208
      @therealspaghetti208 Před 6 lety +2

      Mad Sloth yeah I hate that a ton of Americans are dumbasses
      Btw I am american

    • @GeebleTheGarble
      @GeebleTheGarble Před 5 lety

      SANB SPs the irony though you said I am american but it is supposed to be I am an American

    • @jyl123
      @jyl123 Před 5 lety +4

      Dylan McDowell I am American works as well

  • @keepcheatin
    @keepcheatin Před 11 lety +3

    I'm sooooo looking forward to squaring a circle! Love this channel

  • @rosepinkskyblue
    @rosepinkskyblue Před 3 lety +3

    In school I was told that pi was 22/7 so of course I tried to find an exact value
    I found the recurring decimals 3.142857142857… by doing long division and I was really proud of myself until I realised that pi is not 22/7
    I was also told that e=19/7
    I don’t know why they liked 7 so much

  • @mariafe7050
    @mariafe7050 Před 2 lety +7

    3.2M views...

  • @charliefoxtrotthe3rd335
    @charliefoxtrotthe3rd335 Před 9 lety +70

    Hey, I am an Indiana native, and if we say Pi is equal to 3.2, then by God, that is what it equals. If you don't like it, we'll stop letting you in to watch the Indy 500!

  • @willowm1839
    @willowm1839 Před 8 lety +44

    Yet again, my state embarrasses me... Damnit Indiana...

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau Před 8 lety +1

      Time to move. Save the next generation :-)

    • @tomasFL
      @tomasFL Před 6 lety

      Turn weakness into advantage, all the rest should be embarrassed for not having such a story :)

    • @abandoned7501
      @abandoned7501 Před 5 lety +1

      Place doesn't mean anything, he was just a person like that.

    • @EHMM
      @EHMM Před 3 lety

      USA: i have corona

    • @jonkrade6644
      @jonkrade6644 Před 3 lety

      Indiana is a part of the US

  • @PhilBagels
    @PhilBagels Před 8 lety +115

    Don't be embarrassed for the state of Indiana. Every state, and every nation has far worse things to be embarrassed about. As a general rule, no government should ever make official declarations of scientific (or mathematical) facts. Scientific truth can take care of itself. Government "enforcement" of scientific truth will only lead to trouble - anything from completely false ideas, all the way to outright acts of horrible evil.

    • @danielturnquist68
      @danielturnquist68 Před 8 lety +11

      separation of science and state

    • @AgentSmith911
      @AgentSmith911 Před 7 lety +5

      Yes I really despise governments and those who run it. Politicians and lawmakers usually don't care about anything but money and power.

    • @josephgurgui8686
      @josephgurgui8686 Před 7 lety +5

      Hillary for Prison 2k16

    • @Cowboymeisje
      @Cowboymeisje Před 7 lety +5

      Prison for people who can't write the date properly.

    • @EndrChe
      @EndrChe Před 7 lety +2

      PhilBagels Like Eugenics... yikes.

  • @michaelfrisbie7247
    @michaelfrisbie7247 Před 4 lety +2

    I love storytime with Dr. James

  • @HenrikMyrhaug
    @HenrikMyrhaug Před 8 lety +315

    Was it Edwin or Edward?

  • @vatnidd
    @vatnidd Před 9 lety +4

    2:30 I bet he heard "I've finally found Waldo!"

  • @lawrence2913
    @lawrence2913 Před 4 lety

    I really like this channel and its content. :-)

  • @SIRMMA
    @SIRMMA Před 4 lety +2

    I almost had a heartattack when I saw the thumbnail

  • @cyndie26
    @cyndie26 Před 8 lety +12

    1:02Facts and mathematical theorems can't be copyrighted.

    • @chefme1801
      @chefme1801 Před 8 lety +5

      In America it seems it can be

    • @yinisyang3419
      @yinisyang3419 Před 8 lety +3

      +Chef Me They can't. At least not now.

  • @ChaiKirbs
    @ChaiKirbs Před 8 lety +110

    Why... is.. your... cube... UNSOLVED!?!?!? TRAITOR!!!

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty Před 8 lety +6

      Perhaps, since this video is related to squaring the circle, he wanted to make a subtle reference to another impossible ancient Greek problem - doubling the cube.
      Given a cube, is it always possible to construct a cube with exactly twice the volume? It turns out that it is impossible. There exist cubes which cannot be doubled using the ancient Greek methods.
      So maybe his unsolved Rubix cube was a reference to how one cannot "solve" the problem of doubling the cube ;)

    • @PastyMancer
      @PastyMancer Před 5 lety

      @@MuffinsAPlenty you can easily solve it the area of the cube is 0

    • @thehiddenninja3428
      @thehiddenninja3428 Před 5 lety

      @@MuffinsAPlenty That wall of text also mentions him having a 'proof' of solving this problem, and setting the diagonal of a unit square = root(2) = 10/7
      As well as trisecting an angle.

    • @MuffinsAPlenty
      @MuffinsAPlenty Před 5 lety

      It does not surprise me. It seems like impossibility results in mathematics tend to draw out the most mind-numbingly bad arguments from some people.

    • @thetientran
      @thetientran Před 4 lety

      Sup cuber

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something Před 6 lety +8

    Not knowing what "squaring the circle" was before this video, I must admit I had to look it up elsewhere to really understand. In the video, it is explained as "finding" a square and circle of the same area. Which sounds like you could just say, "the circle has a radius of n and the square has a width of n*pi^(1/2). Solved. But instead, the challenge is to construct it with a compass and straight edge, which is of course a much different type of challenge. It could be that the language you used conveyed that and I just don't know it, but on first brush it seems like an important detail may have been left out.

  • @sitearm
    @sitearm Před 8 lety +75

    You can try to regulate maths but it will end in tears ; p

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 7 lety +8

      It's a sin

    • @PrimusProductions
      @PrimusProductions Před 7 lety +14

      +Osmorosvo Edwin was approaching this from the wrong angle.

    • @bluetannery1527
      @bluetannery1527 Před 7 lety

      sitearm mathS? With an s?

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 7 lety +8

      Yes, maths. Short from mathematics. It's a British English thing.

    • @MattC-jg1yb
      @MattC-jg1yb Před 6 lety

      That's clearly Trotsky

  • @BoredErica
    @BoredErica Před 9 lety +5

    That is absolutely amazing!

  • @jreaganmorganchannel
    @jreaganmorganchannel Před 9 lety +75

    Good thing it was in Indiana. If it happened here in Texas, there would be no stopping it.

    • @h0lysauce
      @h0lysauce Před 6 lety +2

      Probably not, but we're not too far from doing something so insane over here!~

    • @medexamtoolsdotcom
      @medexamtoolsdotcom Před 5 lety +10

      Unless it was in Austin, if it happened in Austin, they would have not passed it, in favor of a different bill that declares that pi and all math is an oppressive tool of the patriarchy.

    • @johnjackson9767
      @johnjackson9767 Před 4 lety

      @@medexamtoolsdotcom Ha, my thoughts exactly.

  • @Nurr0
    @Nurr0 Před 8 lety

    Wow, I had NO idea. This was great, ty!

  • @Max-ez2zn
    @Max-ez2zn Před 4 lety +1

    This is by far the best comment section I've come across so far and I did not expect to find it here

  • @braxtonwhite947
    @braxtonwhite947 Před 8 lety +4

    2:41 = savage

  • @Sanio46
    @Sanio46 Před 10 lety +18

    And so the Waldo franchise was born

  • @basti1838
    @basti1838 Před 3 lety +1

    It really satisfies me, that this video has 3.1M views at the moment

  • @luciengrondin5802
    @luciengrondin5802 Před 7 lety +75

    My favorite approximation of pi is 355/113

  • @ohthatsclever
    @ohthatsclever Před 11 lety +3

    "Imaginary" numbers are an unfortunate name for the "non-real" part of a complex number. Imaginary numbers do exist, just like pi and e and irrational and rational numbers, we just don't count things with them, really.
    There was a time when 0 and the squareroot of 2 were considered to not exist for similar reasons.

  • @KishoreShenoy1994
    @KishoreShenoy1994 Před 8 lety +41

    Doing jokes about this, is as easy as pi

  • @kyankoh2991
    @kyankoh2991 Před 6 lety

    THIS GUY IS A GENIUS! DESERVES AN AWARD!

  • @chrismccormack3254
    @chrismccormack3254 Před 4 lety

    Thankyou for this video. We loved it. Lots of love, The Fulham Boys School. Especially Joel Sala.

  • @erwingifslang
    @erwingifslang Před 7 lety +10

    Please solve those rubix cubes in the background

  • @maddoxbruce4621
    @maddoxbruce4621 Před 8 lety +119

    3.141592653..... wait a minute I'm not supposed to be commenting this. It's useless to know it.

    • @justclosing
      @justclosing Před 8 lety +17

      3 and a bit is enough

    • @shockslice7632
      @shockslice7632 Před 7 lety +8

      3.2 yo

    • @snowfloofcathug
      @snowfloofcathug Před 7 lety +22

      I learned 400 decimals of Pi, super useful for making people think you're crazy :P

    • @shockslice7632
      @shockslice7632 Před 7 lety +20

      Yeah but I learnt that the square root of pi is 1.772453851 which is far more useless

    • @user-ue3gx8nu1t
      @user-ue3gx8nu1t Před 7 lety +2

      3.14159365358979323846264338

  • @ganeshsreedhar4657
    @ganeshsreedhar4657 Před 4 lety +2

    Engineer : Am I a joke to you?

  • @therandomguy4988
    @therandomguy4988 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks, made my day

  • @KanishkaRay
    @KanishkaRay Před 9 lety +126

    One of the most ridiculous stories of all time. Yes, only in Murica.

    • @WH-hx8dq
      @WH-hx8dq Před 8 lety +1

      +Kanishka Ray it really is a perfect microcosm of the ol' Murica, isn't it?

    • @aronious291
      @aronious291 Před 5 lety +4

      And an american made everything better again. ^

  • @matthewwriter9539
    @matthewwriter9539 Před 10 lety +4

    If anybody asks, 144029661/45846065 < pi < 355/113, just so you know.

  • @leoaso6984
    @leoaso6984 Před 2 lety +1

    Coming back 8 years later to say that the video now has 3.2M views

  • @capitalm417
    @capitalm417 Před 3 lety +2

    the numbers of views this video has right now is 3.14 million

  • @BioniclesaurKing4t2
    @BioniclesaurKing4t2 Před 8 lety +9

    Can we get a transcript of those math puns? They saved stenography, I mean, they had to, right?

  • @Jabafish
    @Jabafish Před 2 lety +3

    The video has 3.2 million views rn

  • @dakshanbalaramesh
    @dakshanbalaramesh Před 3 lety +1

    *Edward:* Let us make Pi = 3.2!
    *The Mathematicians of Earth:* So you have chosen Death

  • @macaroni9496
    @macaroni9496 Před 5 měsíci

    "What's one fun fact about your state?"
    " *WELL* "

  • @TheEudaemonicPlague
    @TheEudaemonicPlague Před 4 lety +4

    Very interesting. At some point, in the last few decades, I recall hearing that Indiana had just passed such a law, not a hundred years prior. It didn't strike me as important at the time, and I'm pretty sure it was pre-internet, anyway. I wish I could remember the source. Obviously, whoever it was spreading this disinformation was entirely out of their depth.

  • @ryanjones7681
    @ryanjones7681 Před 4 lety +5

    Where's Waldo?
    In an Indiana courthouse.

  • @theboombody
    @theboombody Před 5 měsíci

    That squaring the circle proof is no joke. Pretty much any mathematics that appeared after 1800 is really tough stuff.

  • @linuxophile
    @linuxophile Před 3 lety +1

    "More serious mathematicians like Ramanujan": the understatement of the century! (compared to Edwin Goodwin...)

  • @LockMakesStuff
    @LockMakesStuff Před 8 lety +6

    Common core is the reason teenagers don't want to become mathematicians

  • @hjonker
    @hjonker Před 7 lety +241

    Guys, I know all of pi.
    P-i.

    • @JuanDiaz-vt4kp
      @JuanDiaz-vt4kp Před 7 lety +2

      Thunix me too. 3.2

    • @Alisha-yz6nd
      @Alisha-yz6nd Před 7 lety +1

      3.14256 blah blah i forget

    • @yoriichitsugikuni833
      @yoriichitsugikuni833 Před 7 lety +1

      Kiwitopia yay 3.14159 bla bla

    • @matthew.trains4841
      @matthew.trains4841 Před 7 lety

      3.14159265358979323846.....

    • @LividCoyote
      @LividCoyote Před 7 lety +12

      3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882353787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198938095257201065485863278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721775283479131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319255060400927701671139009848824012858361603563707660104710181942955596198946767837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684259069491293313677028989152104752162056966024058038150193511253382430035587640247496473263914199272604269922796782354781636009341721641219924586315030286182974555706749838505494588586926995690927210797509302955321165344987202755960236480665499119881834797753566369807426542527862551818417574672890977772793800081647060016145249192173217214772350141441973568548161361157352552133475741849468438523323907394143334547762416862518983569485562099219222184272550254256887671790494601653466804988627232791786085784383827967976681454100953883786360950680064225125205117392984896084128488626945604241965285022210661186306744278622039194945047123713786960956364371917287467764657573962413890865832645995813390478027590099465764078951269468398352595709825822620522489407726719478268482601476990902640136394437455305068203496252451749399651431429809190659250937221696461515709858387410597885959772975498930161753928468138268683868942774155991855925245953959431049972524680845987273644695848653836736222626099124608051243884390451244136549762780797715691435997700129616089441694868555848406353422072225828488648158456028506016842739452267467678895252138522549954666727823986456596116354886230577456498035593634568174324112515076069479451096596094025228879710893145669136867228748940560101503308617928680920874760917824938589009714909675985261365549781893129784821682998948722658804857564014270477555132379641451523746234364542858444795265867821051141354735739523113427166102135969536231442952484937187110145765403590279934403742007310578539062198387447808478489683321445713868751943506430218453191048481005370614680674919278191197939952061419663428754440643745123718192179998391015919561814675142691239748940907186494231961567945208095146550225231603881930142093762137855956638937787083039069792077346722182562599661501421503068038447734549202605414665925201497442850732518666002132434088190710486331734649651453905796268561005508106658796998163574736384052571459102897064140110971206280439039759515677157700420337869936007230558763176359421873125147120532928191826186125867321579198414848829164470609575270695722091756711672291098169091528017350671274858322287183520935396572512108357915136988209144421006751033467110314126711136990865851639831501970165151168517143765761835155650884909989859982387345528331635507647918535893226185489632132933089857064204675259070915481416549859461637180270981994309924488957571282890592323326097299712084433573265489382391193259746366730583604142813883032038249037589852437441702913276561809377344403070746921120191302033038019762110110044929321516084244485963766983895228684783123552658213144957685726243344189303968642624341077322697802807318915441101044682325271620105265227211166039666557309254711055785376346682065310989652691862056476931257058635662018558100729360659876486117910453348850346113657686753249441668039626579787718556084552965412665408530614344431858676975145661406800700237877659134401712749470420562230538994561314071127000407854733269939081454664645880797270826683063432858785698305235808933065757406795457163775254202114955761581400250126228594130216471550979259230990796547376125517656751357517829666454779174501129961489030463994713296210734043751895735961458901938971311179042978285647503203198691514028708085990480109412147221317947647772622414254854540332157185306142288137585043063321751829798662237172159160771669254748738986654949450114654062843366393790039769265672146385306736096571209180763832716641627488880078692560290228472104031721186082041900042296617119637792133757511495950156604963186294726547364252308177036751590673502350728354056704038674351362222477158915049530984448933309634087807693259939780541934144737744184263129860809988868741326047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  • @sylys
    @sylys Před 7 lety +1

    Great pigeon wallpaper !

  • @ephronium
    @ephronium Před 4 lety

    another episode of what comes in my recommendation in quarantine

  • @ronniesunshine1163
    @ronniesunshine1163 Před 4 lety +3

    "Its a true story and its absolutely crazy"
    Joey diaz: "back in '89..."

  • @AlphaCentauri24
    @AlphaCentauri24 Před 4 lety +14

    Edwin was born too early
    He could have been the CEO of Apple.

  • @Quintaner
    @Quintaner Před 5 lety

    Speaks volumes about that guy. He was so confident that he could solve a problem which had been mathematically proven to be impossible. And didn’t even know the correct value of pi

  • @KnakuanaRka
    @KnakuanaRka Před 6 lety +1

    I would love to see a recreation of the politicians making fun and jokes for a half hour.

  • @xelad3362
    @xelad3362 Před 2 lety +6

    hmm. the current view count is *3.2* million.

  • @morscoronam3779
    @morscoronam3779 Před 7 lety +4

    This is why politicians shouldn't be in charge of anything, lol.

  • @zxkver8943
    @zxkver8943 Před 4 lety +2

    Everyone : Pi is infinite!
    Some guy : It's 3.2!
    Me : Pi is between 3 and 4 since the only whole number is 3.

  • @LorcaLeon
    @LorcaLeon Před 5 lety

    Este canal me parece muy interesante. Este tema está buenísimo.