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  • Tadashi explores a special set of dice... And has a powerful lesson.
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Komentáře • 920

  • @jkazos
    @jkazos Před 7 lety +115

    "If the other one were careless enough to show its zero." I love this guy's choice of phrasing!

  • @YostPeter
    @YostPeter Před 7 lety +486

    "We want to avoid arithmetic."
    -Tadashi Tokieda

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 Před 2 lety +10

      Wee I hope so, I can't even count to ten gazillion!

    • @marceltelang7825
      @marceltelang7825 Před 2 lety +2

      @@dielaughing73 but it's NUMBER phile

    • @DrKaii
      @DrKaii Před rokem +1

      ​@@marceltelang7825 he's from arithmephile

  • @Bluedragon2513
    @Bluedragon2513 Před 5 lety +41

    5:04 There it is. The legendary anime, glass-setting middle finger. It appears once every few months to even years.
    I applaud. He is great.

  • @PauLtus_B
    @PauLtus_B Před 7 lety +176

    5:04 did you just give us the finger?

    • @SecretofTerra
      @SecretofTerra Před 7 lety +94

      No, it was meant specifically for you ;)

    • @PauLtus_B
      @PauLtus_B Před 7 lety +2

      XPossseidon
      I know XD

    • @PauLtus_B
      @PauLtus_B Před 7 lety +24

      Secreto Terra
      I'd feel honored to get the finger from Tadashi.

    • @SapphireCrook
      @SapphireCrook Před 7 lety +3

      As a glasses wearer myself...
      That sometimes happens and I instantly panic if anyone took it personal.

    • @PauLtus_B
      @PauLtus_B Před 7 lety +10

      Sapphire Crook
      I'd be surprised if anyone took that as an insult.

  • @ExhaustedElox
    @ExhaustedElox Před 7 lety +201

    Once again, Tadashi-sensei explains a complex concept well before ever referring to it so the audience isn't disengaged by complicated sounding terms. He is a great educator.

  • @Cadrid
    @Cadrid Před 7 lety +853

    I'm a simple man.
    When I see a Tadashi video I watch it, my mind is blown, and then I hit "Like" in a math-induced stupor.

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 Před 7 lety

      +

    • @Klayhamn
      @Klayhamn Před 5 lety +5

      I'm a simple man.
      When I see descriptions of what other simple men do, I like, and comment - telling my story as a simple man.

    • @morgiewthelord8648
      @morgiewthelord8648 Před 2 lety

      @@Klayhamn its just that simple

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex Před 9 měsíci

      false.

  • @robertb3672
    @robertb3672 Před 7 lety +39

    One of the more profound quotes by an undergraduate professor that taught me a few years ago:
    "The problem with real life is that friendship is not transitive."

    • @sommers6235
      @sommers6235 Před 2 lety +5

      I once made an argument in one of my sketchbooks that the closer human relationships were to following equivalence relations, the stronger those relationships are. It's been many years and many ponderings, but I still think there may be some truth to it.

  • @iytbazzie7723
    @iytbazzie7723 Před 4 lety +53

    Surprisingly, I first learned about this phenomenon when compairing stats for guns in Borderlands 2.

  • @brianpso
    @brianpso Před 7 lety +130

    I just can't get enough of his lessons, I need more Brady! Please!

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 7 lety +34

      we're working on it

    • @brianpso
      @brianpso Před 7 lety

      Derek Leung Thanks a lot! I'm gonna watch it later today =D

    • @tauceti8341
      @tauceti8341 Před 7 lety +4

      Professor Tadashi has a great general maths lecture with toys that's definitely worth checking out. I had great fun with Tadashis toy lecture.

  • @GameNationRDF
    @GameNationRDF Před 7 lety +26

    Yet again Tadashi blows my mind

  • @hedonisticzen
    @hedonisticzen Před 5 lety +11

    I love the way he uses language at times. "Careless enough to show it's 0" also gave me a new perspective on probability! I feel like I gain so much from his videos.

  • @vicr123
    @vicr123 Před 7 lety +584

    I don't know why I found that "ten gazillion" thing so funny... :)

    • @minimanimo7239
      @minimanimo7239 Před 7 lety +2

      Why not m8? :)

    • @spider853
      @spider853 Před 7 lety +9

      Because of Godzilla? Tadashi.... Godzilla.... Tadashi... Godzilla ;) you see the connection?

    • @litigioussociety4249
      @litigioussociety4249 Před 7 lety +13

      I want one of those 10 gazillion dice.

    • @vicr123
      @vicr123 Před 7 lety +7

      Litigious Society Imagine playing Snakes and Ladders with that :P

    • @bytefu
      @bytefu Před 7 lety +9

      Probably because 10 is not much compared to gazillion, which is supposed to be some very large number, so it doesn't really make any difference, thus putting it before the gazillion is meaningless and therefore funny, just like shooting a single bacteria from a giant cannon.

  • @12tone
    @12tone Před 7 lety +102

    Neat! Would love to see a follow-up with James Grime, who has his own set of these with additional interesting properties.

    • @mzadro7
      @mzadro7 Před 3 lety +1

      Well it’s wierd to see you here

    • @_wetwillyinc
      @_wetwillyinc Před 3 lety +11

      @@mzadro7 nah man
      Music theory is just group theory mod12

    • @WilliamWizer
      @WilliamWizer Před 2 lety +2

      to be precise he has a set of five that have 2 different cycles. one of the two gets reversed if you play with two dice instead of one.
      this makes it fun because you can play with two other players and let them choose die so long as they let you decide how many dice will be used on the roll. you are guaranteed to have a stronger chance to win no matter what they choose.
      he made me wonder if it's possible to do it for more players (you plus 3 others). haven't found a solution but it's fun to try.

  • @TheDarkFalcon
    @TheDarkFalcon Před 7 lety +65

    Tadashi needs to host a podcast, I could listen to him all day.

    • @lmiddleman
      @lmiddleman Před 7 lety +14

      He has a great voice and an excellent command of English... a natural.

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 Před 7 lety

      +

    • @bambiwhite6385
      @bambiwhite6385 Před 5 lety +2

      I prefer that he gets some rest and lives a long life to be around and do his work

  • @jimmykeffer7401
    @jimmykeffer7401 Před 7 lety +56

    This needs to be a game where you design die and try to beat your opponents' die.
    More tadashi!

    • @WilliamPeytz
      @WilliamPeytz Před 7 lety +24

      666666

    • @Dolkarr
      @Dolkarr Před 7 lety +32

      9,9,9,9,0,0 - same total value, but beats yours (6,6,6,6,6,6)
      This really could be an interesting game mechanic, if you distribute a fixed amount of points between a set of values, since it has nice rock-paper-scissor behavior.
      10,10,4,4,4,4 - same value again, beats the above, but loses against yours.
      If we continue...
      10,10,7,7,1,1 - beats all of the above, but...
      8,8,8,8,2,2 - beats that, but not the others except for the 6's.
      Now.. given a fixed value, which distribution of points beats the most other configurations?

    • @GerSHAK
      @GerSHAK Před 7 lety +1

      +

    • @jimmykeffer7401
      @jimmykeffer7401 Před 7 lety +3

      Dolkarr How does 10,10,4,4,4,4 beat
      9,9,9,9,0,0? wouldnt it lose.... nvm it wins 55%
      So let's go with 36 as the number of given points to distribute. What combinations would be the best?
      9,9,10,8,0,0 - beats 6,6,6,6,6,6, and ties 9,9,9,9,0,0, I'm too lazy to do the rest
      11,11,11,2,1,0 - another combination that can beat the 10,10,4,4,4,4
      *metagame intensifies*

    • @meneldal
      @meneldal Před 7 lety

      If you allow negative numbers, I propose 1 gazillion 5 times and -5 gazillion once. Wins 5 out of 6 against everyone here.

  • @mspeir
    @mspeir Před 7 lety +261

    I knew it! I knew gazillion was a number! A mathematician just said so!

    • @MrAllenCrown
      @MrAllenCrown Před 7 lety +14

      Who want's to be a Gazillionaire? I know I do.

    • @MrRedtail26
      @MrRedtail26 Před 7 lety +3

      finally

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 Před 7 lety

      +

    • @lythd
      @lythd Před 7 lety +1

      what is that number? how many zeros? ya i thought so

    • @HaloInverse
      @HaloInverse Před 7 lety +35

      It doesn't have a fixed number of zeros. A gazillion is defined as "the smallest positive finite power of ten that is effectively infinite for practical purposes", i.e. slightly bigger than anything else you'll be dealing with, but not actually infinite. It's part of the family of numbers known as "Parker constants".

  • @venkatchait007
    @venkatchait007 Před 7 lety +12

    Amazing, you know the teacher is good when the solution seems obvious once explained :O

  • @NiLowther
    @NiLowther Před 6 lety +103

    Spent most of the video thinking "how could these dice be incorporated into D&D..."

    • @minecraftermad
      @minecraftermad Před 4 lety

      Easy sand off everything between 5 and 18 from the d20 and let people choose wether to use d20 or d6 for rolls

    • @pedroscoponi4905
      @pedroscoponi4905 Před 3 lety +7

      You could build strange magical weapons that use these weird dice instead of the ordinary roll. Maybe a shortsword from Mechanus always rolls the average of 3, for example.
      You could also have the dice be magical objects themselves in-fiction, and rolling certain faces on certain dies would have specific effects. Then you just give the actual dice set out as a prop ;)

  • @RPMRosie
    @RPMRosie Před 7 lety +24

    i honestly love the tadashi videos

  • @LeviJohansen
    @LeviJohansen Před 7 lety +39

    5:1 and 3:3 is equal.

    • @safrprojects
      @safrprojects Před 3 lety +13

      Yet if you compare the other opposites, 662222 is stronger than 444400

    • @natew.7951
      @natew.7951 Před 2 lety +5

      @@safrprojects yeah that's what I wish had been mentioned. It's obvious that one of the two comparisons that weren't made in the video (333333 vs 555111) is equal, but the other one isn't as obvious. I had to do the math myself to see if it was equal.

    • @Aggressiphyst
      @Aggressiphyst Před 2 lety +6

      This all needs to be implemented in a board game of some kind.

    • @armcie5080
      @armcie5080 Před 2 lety +11

      @@Aggressiphyst Throw away the board.... how about if you somehow made hand symbols to represent the dice. And maybe just use three of them.

    • @a.velderrain8849
      @a.velderrain8849 Před 2 lety +1

      @@safrprojects Indeed. 662222 beats out 444400 20/36 times, or 5/9 times, for anyone who was interested and didn't want to do the math.

  • @yungml
    @yungml Před 7 lety +39

    When Tadashi says "nifty"

  • @Hogibaer
    @Hogibaer Před 7 lety +149

    I always knew "10 gazillion" was a legit number! :-)

    • @MrDasbinich123
      @MrDasbinich123 Před 7 lety +11

      yeah that part made me smile ... which hurts because I just got my wisdom teeth removed ._.

    • @johancouder8013
      @johancouder8013 Před 7 lety +10

      Of course it is ! Economists use it all the time, as in: "The US debt is 10 gazillion dollars" :)

  • @Zince
    @Zince Před 7 lety +8

    probably my favorite guy for this channel

    • @subh1
      @subh1 Před 7 lety +7

      what's the probability?

  • @TRUCKLOADOFPAIN
    @TRUCKLOADOFPAIN Před 7 lety +2

    Tadashi could literally make a video of him just telling the entire world how terrible of a person I am and I would still love it. Dude's awesome.

  • @ZimoNitrome
    @ZimoNitrome Před 7 lety +55

    Oh yeah Tadashi be my waifu

    • @Nessa-939
      @Nessa-939 Před 7 lety

      Hej Simon

    • @ZimoNitrome
      @ZimoNitrome Před 7 lety

      Anka Hej Ankan

    • @ichbinein123
      @ichbinein123 Před 7 lety +2

      ZimoNitrome, du er en af de fugtigste svenskere jeg kender på den anden side at Øresund! Keep it up!

  • @ber2996
    @ber2996 Před 4 lety +35

    "A is stronger than B and B is stronger than C but it's not necessarily means that A is stronger than C"
    I might use this example in a certain situations.

    • @losveratos
      @losveratos Před 10 měsíci

      @@eltodesukane No it isn't.

  • @TheRealPunkachu
    @TheRealPunkachu Před 4 lety +1

    This is something I study a lot in game design. It's important to look at breakpoints like this when you look at balancing statistics.

  • @FlyingTurtleLP
    @FlyingTurtleLP Před 7 lety +4

    Numberphile, I really love your vids. Mr. Tokieda explained that extremely well. Thank you!

  • @zhangpe1
    @zhangpe1 Před 7 lety +6

    The 5,1 dice and the all 3's dice relationship could be a clue as well. One dice can't not be declared stronger than the other.

  • @bogdanyer
    @bogdanyer Před 7 lety +6

    wow! that is so counterintuitive!

  • @xSaucecode
    @xSaucecode Před 7 lety +2

    I love these videos with Tadashi! So simple and elegant.

  • @WCairforce
    @WCairforce Před 7 lety +1

    I'm loving all the dice related videos!
    These set up some fun experiments for students to explore.
    Cheers

  • @rich1051414
    @rich1051414 Před 7 lety +4

    Love this video. I was just talking to someone the other day how logic and common sense are not the same thing, and sometimes logic completely contradicts common sense. This is a great example of that.
    If A is better than B, and B is better than C, then common sense would dictate A is better than C, but logically you cannot be certain about such a claim.

    • @losveratos
      @losveratos Před 10 měsíci

      @@eltodesukane No it isn't.

  • @adizmal
    @adizmal Před 7 lety +21

    Tadashi is a boss.

  • @YC80087
    @YC80087 Před 7 lety +1

    Tadashi's lessons never ceased to amaze me! I learn every single time I watch his video!

  • @gsurfer04
    @gsurfer04 Před 7 lety +3

    It's always nice to start the day with Tadashi-san.

    • @cortster12
      @cortster12 Před 7 lety +2

      No, he's more of a teacher role. So sensei would fit better.

  • @PauLtus_B
    @PauLtus_B Před 7 lety +22

    I'd love a d20 with 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,10 gazillion

    • @nahuelmat
      @nahuelmat Před 4 lety +4

      The ultimate critical hit

  • @JamesSpeiser
    @JamesSpeiser Před 7 lety +7

    Very counterintuitive and interesting!

  • @AGOW100
    @AGOW100 Před 7 lety

    This was a very informative video. Probably one of the best of Tadashi.

  • @SamBegich
    @SamBegich Před 5 lety

    Tadeshi Blows My Mind Every Time. He does it so graciously too.

  • @JazzRadioFfm
    @JazzRadioFfm Před 7 lety +3

    i always knew that soccer (or any other sport) tournaments don't mean anything. depends on which team you play; if your strengths match the weaknesses of your opponents.

  • @Unparadoxability
    @Unparadoxability Před 7 lety +4

    This has been known for a long time for pokémon enthusiasts.
    Charizard beats Venusaur.
    Venusaur beats Blastoise.
    But no-one would conclude that this means Charizard beats Blastoise!

  • @stefanilserbo2
    @stefanilserbo2 Před 7 lety

    Thank you for this amazing video! Love Tadashi, he is really amazing!

  • @ChrisCanMakeStuff
    @ChrisCanMakeStuff Před 7 lety +1

    This was great! So well explained.

  • @Birkirrey
    @Birkirrey Před 7 lety +3

    Wow... The necessity for cross validation of statistical models just clicked for me in a new way. Mind blown!

  • @firstnamelastname4752
    @firstnamelastname4752 Před 7 lety +488

    Gonna like before watching because Tadashi is always the dankest.

    • @pietervanderplas9592
      @pietervanderplas9592 Před 7 lety +27

      Yeh, his videos are awesome. Love this guy.

    • @nerdcedric
      @nerdcedric Před 7 lety +7

      Now I can tell my math teacher that one of the most liked Numberphile mathematicians said "A Gazillion"

    • @zachell1991
      @zachell1991 Před 7 lety

      I found that ironic when he used 10 gazillion.

    • @jesusthroughmary
      @jesusthroughmary Před 7 lety +1

      After watching the video, I can say that your confidence is well placed.

    • @eustatianwings
      @eustatianwings Před 7 lety +3

      Does anyone else have non-transitive preferences between mathematicians?

  • @Dilton94
    @Dilton94 Před 7 lety

    I love Tadashi's videos! They are sure to get me instantly clicking!

  • @5eurosenelsuelo
    @5eurosenelsuelo Před 7 lety

    Great video and conclusion at the end

  • @gui1521
    @gui1521 Před 7 lety +230

    Got the answer, most powerful dice is the one with 10 gazillion on all faces. Ez

    • @fishecod2552
      @fishecod2552 Před 7 lety +16

      sorry, i think you missed the one with 10 gazillion 1 on it.

    • @gui1521
      @gui1521 Před 7 lety +9

      fishecod
      Must be quite a huge dice ._.

    • @cameronl1859
      @cameronl1859 Před 7 lety +7

      Still would rather have a 10 gazillion-sided die with 10 gazillion on all faces

    • @lxathu
      @lxathu Před 7 lety +4

      Should you try to throw it, you would be about to die.

    • @lythd
      @lythd Před 7 lety

      or maybe oo on all faces!

  • @SheezyBites
    @SheezyBites Před 7 lety +36

    The 6,2 dice is the best though because it's the only one statistically stronger than 2 other dice... at least until people start using the all 3 dice to try and win the meta game.

    • @Moorb0y52
      @Moorb0y52 Před 7 lety +7

      And then there would be a small number of people running the niche 4,2 strat to counter the 3s

    • @randomdogdog
      @randomdogdog Před 7 lety +7

      just doing the maths for those who want it,
      the dice are:
      3 3 3 3 3 3 (3), 4 4 4 4 0 0 (4), 5 5 5 1 1 1 (5), 6 6 2 2 2 2 (6)
      3 beats 6, ties 5, loses 4
      4 beats 3, loses 5, 6(5/9th of the time)
      5 beats 4, ties 3, loses 6
      6 beats 5, 4, loses 3

    • @awyoung706
      @awyoung706 Před 7 lety +4

      To answer that last part: If all 4 dice were pitted together in one final battle to the death, The 6 and 5 die are the best with a 33% chance of winning. The 4 die has a 22% chance of winning, and the 3 die has an 11% chance of winning (don't pick that one!)

    • @djbrowny
      @djbrowny Před 7 lety

      Thank you for saving my brain from a cognitive dissonance meltdown. I couldn't comprehend his analogy with drugs and implying that C>A>B>C. That's not possible with discrete data.

    • @ComradeTiki
      @ComradeTiki Před 7 lety +4

      Here's a game for you:
      Two players discreetly select a die in order. The first player receives what they selected. If the second player requested the same, they pick again (knowing which die the first player chose).
      Since 6,2 is the best in a battle royale, and player-A knows this, but if player-B chooses the same, then for their second pick they're guaranteed to pick all-3's... so player-A could set an ambush by choosing all-3's. Unless the second player tries this as well and then learns to choose 4,0. So player-A might as well set a trap by starting on 4,0. But it will lose if player-B starts on 6,2.
      From a random Monty-Hall problem standpoint, it looks like player-B will win more often, but something tells me that in applied setting it would balance toward Rock-Paper-Scissors (50%).

  • @dankeman5266
    @dankeman5266 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant, and brilliantly explained!

  • @DyingToLive310
    @DyingToLive310 Před 5 lety

    Avoiding arithmetic? Not using a 10 syllable word and expecting us to know it? Fun easy presentable demonstration? Cartoons? BEST TEACHER EVER

  • @alexare_
    @alexare_ Před 7 lety +148

    A video about non-transitive dice on Numberphile, without everyone's favorite star, Dr. James Grime?? Not even a mention, or a link? Cmon Brady... Tadashi is great, but Dr. Grime has a great set of non-transitive dice named after him.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 7 lety +226

      1. There is a link to BUY Grime dice in the video description
      2. I've been asking Dr Grime to a do a Grime Dice video with me for YEARS without success.

    • @taba1950
      @taba1950 Před 7 lety +2

      I think he made a video in his own channel a while ago

    • @SlyMaelstrom
      @SlyMaelstrom Před 7 lety +6

      James Grime definitely made a video about non-transitive dice at some point. I was going to comment that he did it on Numberphile, but seeing this thread it makes more sense that he did it on his own channel. It also appears he did another video specifically about Grime dice which is actually shown on that Mathsgear website on the product page. I could understand why he wouldn't care to be redundant on the topic.

    • @Wegnerrobert2
      @Wegnerrobert2 Před 7 lety

      vaego haha before I researched those dice I had assumed it's some set of 10^25 dice with a dimension of 2^363728949-1 or something like that because that's often the scale of mathematical discoveries lol.

  • @Ocklepod
    @Ocklepod Před 7 lety +44

    James grimes did the same thing on his own channel, and now it's the third video of exactly the same dice.

    • @Bringidon
      @Bringidon Před 7 lety +3

      Yes he did

    • @ricepatch
      @ricepatch Před 6 lety

      This one's more powerful though.

    • @Varksterable
      @Varksterable Před 6 lety +3

      James Yang Each one beats the other, non-transitively?

  • @nix207
    @nix207 Před 5 lety

    Some of the concepts in this shed some light on the paper i did as an undergraduate. I now appreciate both this video and my own work as well. Now if I only had the time, I would have used some of the ideas here to simplify my calculations massively.

  • @rosejuliette9180
    @rosejuliette9180 Před 2 lety +2

    This would make a really fun game of rock paper scissors because even if you pick the stronger dice you still have to make the roll.

    • @sommers6235
      @sommers6235 Před 2 lety

      Rock paper scissors is exactly what I was thinking too

  • @MrAntieMatter
    @MrAntieMatter Před 7 lety +18

    5:03 Tadashi, how dare you sir!

  • @RainnySkies
    @RainnySkies Před 7 lety +38

    Tadashi has taught me more than all of my math teachers ever have.

    • @ThatGuy-nv2wo
      @ThatGuy-nv2wo Před 7 lety

      And you're English teachers...

    • @rupertlosl122
      @rupertlosl122 Před 7 lety +13

      The irony...

    • @ichbinein123
      @ichbinein123 Před 7 lety +2

      My math teacher in highschool was educated in philosophy, but he said that the two subjects are so closely related, that one compliments the other in a surprising amount of ways.

    • @ichbinein123
      @ichbinein123 Před 7 lety

      That Guy Nah, friendo, he had a point. A lot of real logical problems can be quantized with mathematics. It doesn't even have to be particularly complicated.
      Besides, it's not as if he wasn't educated in math as well. He had a masters in philosophy, and a bachelor in mathematics, so he had his credentials in order.

    • @ThatGuy-nv2wo
      @ThatGuy-nv2wo Před 7 lety

      IchBinEin Fair enough, but I still hold my point that philosophy is nothing like maths.

  • @the.y.method
    @the.y.method Před 7 lety

    I love watching Tadashi videos. He is full of fascinating insights and thoughts. Discovered him before I saw him on Numberphile though, doing a series of lectures in Cape Town at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, lecturing on topology.

  • @cmilla111
    @cmilla111 Před 7 lety

    I like his final point. So many people think not paying attention to math growing up just means they will need a calculator. They don't realize how stuff like this seeps into so many things in life.

  • @Robin_Nixon
    @Robin_Nixon Před 7 lety +10

    Professor Tadashi got me thinking again - this time about how to improve the design of a game I'm working on :)

    • @chyousub
      @chyousub Před 7 lety +2

      You might like to map it out. Just did it for interest because i like to see well balanced games too. The dices with the 5 and 6 win over 2 other dices. But the dices with the 3 and 4 only win over one other dice. That is still useful for games. The 3 and 4 can be healer and tank like in mmos. The 6 and 5 range and melee attack.

  • @jevicci
    @jevicci Před 7 lety +5

    This guy's ability to explain things in a language that's foreign to him is extremely impressive.

  • @scottcomber
    @scottcomber Před 7 lety

    I wish I could listen to this man lecture all day. Just perfect explanations.

  • @davide1913
    @davide1913 Před 8 měsíci

    Great Math Video! Thank You!

  • @finnberuldsen4798
    @finnberuldsen4798 Před 7 lety +19

    This man could teach rocket science to preschoolers.

  • @qaz010wsx
    @qaz010wsx Před 7 lety +30

    "...This is something that should be know by all CITIZEN..." lol

  • @SecretofTerra
    @SecretofTerra Před 7 lety

    Great video, and I agree that everyone should know this, as it can be quite counterintuitive!

  • @TheShadowOfMars
    @TheShadowOfMars Před 7 lety +1

    6:02 Two comparisons were missed out: The left die (662222) beats the right die (444400); The upper die (555111) and the lower die (333333) are equal.

  • @spacegothgirl
    @spacegothgirl Před 4 lety +5

    I would love a follow-up to this comparing the dice in Super Mario Party. Each character has a unique dice to give them all a different feel. It would be interesting if you could determine who's the strongest!

  • @JMcMillen
    @JMcMillen Před 7 lety +4

    I noticed something when I compared the dice to their non-adjacent die. 333333 vs 555111 is even odds, half the time you win and half the time you lose. But with 662222 vs 444400, 662222 has a slight edge over 444400.

    • @UnCavi
      @UnCavi Před 7 lety

      Are you sure? I think it's even odds as well

    • @anothermoth
      @anothermoth Před 7 lety +1

      It can't be even. Both dice could be mapped onto 3 sided dice without changing the probabilities. When you roll 2 d3, there are 9 possible outcomes which is an odd number. If there are no draws then one must win more than the other. 662222 beats 444400 5/9ths of the time.

    • @alkoholhaltigdryck
      @alkoholhaltigdryck Před 7 lety +1

      662222 has a 1/3 probability to roll a 6, which always wins. It has a 2/3 probability to roll a 2, in which case it wins 1/3 times. 1/3 + (2/3)*(1/3) = 0.555...
      662222 indeed has a slight edge.

    • @SPACKlick
      @SPACKlick Před 7 lety

      555111 cannot be mapped onto a 3 sided die. 333333 and 555111 can be mapped to a two sided die/coin as 33 and 51.

  • @benfischer9333
    @benfischer9333 Před 4 lety

    Have used this video in lots of math classes - it's a great video to demonstrate the role of surprise in math.

  • @sigurjonmyrdal3873
    @sigurjonmyrdal3873 Před 7 lety

    All these great little things!

  • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
    @imveryangryitsnotbutter Před 7 lety +8

    When I saw this video, my first thought was to design a rock-paper-scissors type game around it. I immediately came up with a game in which two people randomly draw a die from the set of four presented in this video, and then roll their selected dice to determine the winner.
    Unfortunately, I found that in a series of random matchups, the [6/2] die is overall the strongest.
    [4/0] beats [3], odds 2:1
    [5/1] beats [4/0], odds 2:1
    [6/2] beats [5/1], odds 2:1
    [3] beats [6/2], odds 2:1
    [3] and [5/1] are matched 1:1.
    [6/2] beats [4/0], odds 5:4.
    Based on the above, we can see that [3] and [5/1] have average performance; they are weak to one die, strong against another, and evenly matched by another.
    But [6/2] performs slightly better than all the others; it is weak to one die, but strong against the other two dice.
    Conversely, [4/0] performs slightly worse than all the others; it is strong to one die, but weak against the other two dice.
    But luckily, there's a way to fix this! You can even out this power balance if you make a small alteration: change the [4,4,4,4,0,0] die to a [4,4,4,4,0,X] die.
    X, in most cases, is equivalent to a 0, and loses to any other roll... *except* a 6, which it trumps. In a matchup between this die and [6/2], the chance of rolling 6 vs. X is 1-in-18; this alters the odds exactly enough that each die is equally likely to win against the other.
    So, by changing one of the 0's to an X, and giving the X the properties stated above, you have a game in which every die is strong against one, weak against another, and equalled by another. A perfect balance.
    ...Okay, so it would be a pretty boring game on its own. But you could use it as the basis for a tabletop RPG's combat system!

    • @avocette
      @avocette Před 5 lety

      late comment, but can you explain more in detail how (44440X) beats (666622)?

    • @user-rv9vk8by5i
      @user-rv9vk8by5i Před 4 lety

      @@avocette Ah, that's where you've confused yourself and confused me. The 6/2 dice is not 666622, but rather 662222
      Against 44440X, it'll work like this:
      4 dice rolls a 0 with 1/6 chance, guaranteed loss.
      Rolls an X with 1/6 chance, wins with 1/3 chance if 6 dice rolls a 6.
      Rolls a 4 with 2/3 chance, wins with 2/3 chance if 6 dice rolls a 2.
      So let's see if the math checks out this time:
      2/3 * 2/3 is 4/9. That's just under a half. This means that the X roll has to be at least 1/18, which will put it at 1/2 chance to win or lose.
      1/6 * 1/3 is 1/18.
      Oh, that's why. The original comment states that the 4 dice is strong against 1 and weak to 2. This change does, indeed, make it strong against 1 and weak against 1, with it now being equal to the 6 dice.

    • @calembur
      @calembur Před 4 lety

      I read your whole explanation.

  • @victorlamarca5156
    @victorlamarca5156 Před 7 lety +5

    10 gazillion is my favourite number

  • @SuperMaDBrothers
    @SuperMaDBrothers Před 4 lety

    I love the animations on these

  • @MyYTwatcher
    @MyYTwatcher Před 7 lety

    Very, very interesting lesson. Thank you.

  • @Czeckie
    @Czeckie Před 7 lety +31

    I love Tadashi. But this is like the third video on nontransitive dice.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  Před 7 lety +36

      it's our first!?

    • @Bronzescorpion
      @Bronzescorpion Před 7 lety +31

      I don't think he meant just dice, but rather people following this channel tends to follow James Grime and Matt Parker and they also did similar videos. It can sometimes be hard to remember which channel you saw it on, because of the similarity, hence the confusion and the comment.

    • @Jack-sy6di
      @Jack-sy6di Před 7 lety +17

      There are several videos on CZcams with people who often appear on numberphile showing off nontransitive dice, but none on the actual numberphile channel. I was confused at first too.

  • @ghoulofmetal
    @ghoulofmetal Před 7 lety +15

    So this is similar to stone/paper/scissor.

    • @jazzsoul69
      @jazzsoul69 Před 4 lety +1

      similar but not intuitive it deserves to be pointed out !

  • @brokenwave6125
    @brokenwave6125 Před 7 lety

    At first a I thought "o, another non transitive dice video..."But Tadashi makes everything worth watching

  • @farty555
    @farty555 Před 7 lety

    sick video. very well explained. these dice are great

  • @ocallaghandesign
    @ocallaghandesign Před 7 lety +45

    this needs to be a game mechanic

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 7 lety +27

      Rock, paper & scissors?

    • @ocallaghandesign
      @ocallaghandesign Před 7 lety +3

      similar but better.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 7 lety +11

      A lot of strategy games use a similar mechanic but deeper.

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow Před 7 lety

      Rock, paper, scissors?
      Sort of.

    • @zerid0
      @zerid0 Před 7 lety +1

      It's called rock-paper-scissors ;)

  • @MaxKoschuh
    @MaxKoschuh Před 7 lety +64

    excellent. very interesting to learn about the cicle.
    5:04 WTF? :-)

    • @ItchyKneeSon
      @ItchyKneeSon Před 7 lety +29

      The same flag went up for me even though I've been living in Japan for over 6 years. Tadashi is Japanese and he almost definitely developed that habit before making his way west. In Japan, pop culture from the west has informed Japanese (and other countries, too, I imagine) that the middle finger has a negative connotation, so everybody here knows that it's not good to toss your lone middle finger up at someone, but in using it for anything else, it goes totally unnoticed because it doesn't have the same meaning in Japanese culture. Actually, being the longest finger, it's logically the most convenient and useful to use for a number of tasks, including pointing, referencing, and glasses up-pushing. :D It took a while to get used to, but now I've gotten quite used to it. In this case, it was difficult to miss, though. hahaha

    • @bytefu
      @bytefu Před 7 lety +14

      ItchyKneeSon
      Didn't notice the gesture until read comments about it. We don't use it much in Russia either.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 Před 7 lety +3

      +ItchyKneeSon I, a North American, also use my middle finger to push up my glasses, but I have _all_ my fingers extended when I do so. XD
      +Artm Borisovskiy I didn't notice it either. XD

    • @ItchyKneeSon
      @ItchyKneeSon Před 7 lety

      NoriMori That's called 'dazzle fingers'.

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 Před 7 lety

      +ItchyKneeSon By who? Why?

  • @mattp.158
    @mattp.158 Před 7 lety +2

    Tadashi-san just flipped us off at 5:04.

  • @MarkDiamond
    @MarkDiamond Před 7 lety

    Brilliant, thank you!

  • @vkillion
    @vkillion Před 7 lety +13

    Didn't we already see a video on non-transitive dice featuring Dr. James Grime (aka singingbanana)?

    • @vkillion
      @vkillion Před 7 lety +9

      I guess it was never on Numberphile. It was on Dr. Grime's personal channel (singingbanana) and the Maths Gear channel (mathsgear).

  • @kerr.andrew
    @kerr.andrew Před 7 lety +5

    this is like rock paper scissors

    • @VapidVulpes
      @VapidVulpes Před 7 lety +1

      whoooaaa! you gotta guess what die the other person will throw and then throw yours so it's two layers of chance.
      you'd have to know how every other dice pair's win/lose relationship too though to know how that game would work and I'm too lazy to figure it out right now

  • @angusmacdonald4860
    @angusmacdonald4860 Před rokem +1

    This guy is the most interesting mathematician to listen to u
    On numberphile..

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier Před 7 lety +1

    This reminds me of the False Positive Paradox, for some reason; although, I don't think it's actually related. But it gives me the same sort of pleasure when the counter-intuitive understanding finally clicks in my mind.

  • @Pika250
    @Pika250 Před 7 lety +5

    These dice are akin to the Fire, Water, Electric, and Grass types in Pokémon.

    • @Pika250
      @Pika250 Před 7 lety +1

      333333 Fire
      004444 Water
      111555 Electric
      222266 Grass

    • @tsunamininja
      @tsunamininja Před 7 lety +1

      Grass doesn't win or lose to electric tho

    • @Pika250
      @Pika250 Před 7 lety

      Think defensively. Grass resists electric but not the other way around.

    • @Pika250
      @Pika250 Před 7 lety

      it's been that way since gen 1

    • @conradbamboozled1653
      @conradbamboozled1653 Před 6 lety

      Rock, bug, psychic, fighting?

  • @RandomWalker39
    @RandomWalker39 Před 7 lety +50

    Seeing this peculiarity being demonstrated in the US Presidential election this year.

    • @claeshenriksson5702
      @claeshenriksson5702 Před 7 lety

      +

    • @bobdfs5230
      @bobdfs5230 Před 7 lety +2

      Clinton votes > Bernie votes doesn't mean Trump votes > Bernie votes, as they aren't the same thing; primary votes and general election votes were cast in different contexts. Is that what you mean?

    • @RandomWalker39
      @RandomWalker39 Před 7 lety +15

      No. Clinton beats Sanders in primary. Trump (potentially) beats Clinton. Sanders would have clobbered Trump.

  • @mockman100k
    @mockman100k Před 7 lety

    The day comes closer where this channel is taken over by our king Tadashi

  • @Br0ckHall
    @Br0ckHall Před 7 lety

    The baritone of this man's voice is worth listening to without focusing on the actual video

  • @superj1e2z6
    @superj1e2z6 Před 7 lety +8

    Diesuki desu.

    • @ItchyKneeSon
      @ItchyKneeSon Před 7 lety +2

      Please, do not wish death upon Suki Desu. :D
      dai*suki desu / だいすきです。/ 大好きです。

    • @leonardromano1491
      @leonardromano1491 Před 7 lety +2

      I think you didn't get the joke...
      Die is the singular form of "Dice" which Tadashi is using.
      No one wishes death upon the phrase "好きです".
      This person seems to like puns and dice.

  • @eretah
    @eretah Před 7 lety +3

    I'd like to buy a die with a 3 on every side

  • @DoctorSinister1987
    @DoctorSinister1987 Před 7 lety

    I really liked this video :) thank you!

  • @gabor6259
    @gabor6259 Před 7 lety

    Mind completely blown. As always.

  • @strawhatroger1657
    @strawhatroger1657 Před 7 lety +6

    Isn't the 1st and 3rd die the same (50/50) because it's 555111 and 333333 therefore each die wins half the time and loses the other half :/

    • @timschonning269
      @timschonning269 Před 7 lety

      It can't be even. Both dice could be mapped onto 3 sided dice without changing the probabilities. When you roll 2 d3, there are 9 possible outcomes which is an odd number. If there are no draws then one must win more than the other. 662222 beats 444400 5/9ths of the time.

    • @snowfloofcathug
      @snowfloofcathug Před 7 lety

      I agree

    • @JossLun
      @JossLun Před 7 lety

      I agree with Straw, the 1st and the 3rd die are equal. No matter how many you throw, both types will win as many times as the others. And sums also have the same average value

    • @KittyBoom360
      @KittyBoom360 Před 7 lety +3

      Straw Hat Roger, nice catch! Yes, the dice 555111 vs 333333 have a probability of 1:1 for predicting outcome of each roll.

    • @KittyBoom360
      @KittyBoom360 Před 7 lety +4

      Tim, no, 555111 cannot be mapped to 3 sided dice, what three numbers, 551, 511, 555, 111??? it could be reduced to a 2 sided/coin tho 51

  • @undergroundmonorail
    @undergroundmonorail Před 7 lety +4

    I'm familiar with nontransitive dice but can someone explain the medicine example? If A cures more than B and B cures more than C, then why wouldn't A cure more than C? It's not like nontransitive dice where the comparison between two can change over time. Assuming the studies were done properly the results should more or less stay the same, so it's not really like rolling B multiple times. You're doing (effectively) one trial for each and seeing which number is the highest.

    • @kroppyer
      @kroppyer Před 7 lety +3

      If you're confident (at some level) that A cures more people than B and that B cures more people than C, I'd say you can conclude you're confident (at the same level) that A cures more people than C, right?
      I don't think the medicine example works.

    • @MasterHigure
      @MasterHigure Před 7 lety +1

      It could have to do with confidence intervals, but you also have to take demographics into account. Was A and B compared on women while B and C was compared on men? Or young vs old? Or different social standings? Or any other of probably hundreds of factors that could make the two results incomparable.

    • @undergroundmonorail
      @undergroundmonorail Před 7 lety

      That makes sense to me but I assumed the studies in question would be equivalent. If that's not the case it's hard to say the results are really comparable at all.

    • @Jack-sy6di
      @Jack-sy6di Před 7 lety +4

      If we're thinking of a drug as basically being a coin flip (it has a certain probability of curing any sick person it's given to), then "A cures more people than B" basically means "A has a higher success probability than B", so you're just ranking numbers, so yes, you can't get non-transitivity. Either he chose a bad example, or he was imagining some more complicated model that would make it work.
      I think one place where you can get nontransitivity is in voting. If when asked to choose between candidates A and B, most people prefer B, and when asked to choose between B and C, they mostly prefer C, that doesn't mean most people will prefer C to A. But that's kind of obvious.

    • @kroppyer
      @kroppyer Před 7 lety

      ***** maybe you can point us to a specific paragraph or section in the 16 page document.

  • @theleastcreative
    @theleastcreative Před 7 lety

    Tadashi is amazing as always

  • @Seltyk
    @Seltyk Před rokem +2

    This is what makes rock-paper-scissors the game that it is