Math Jokes Explained - Numberphile
Some of your favourite maths jokes are dissected in forensic fashion. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ It is YouTube Comedy Week: http://yt.be/comedyweek Animation by...
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[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK] -Is this thing on? [TAPPING] [COUGHING] -So a man walks into a bar. He asks for 10 times more drinks than everyone else. The barman says, now, that is an order of magnitude. MATT PARKER: Actually quite a good joke, because order of magnitude is how big a number is. The speed of light is 3 times 10 to the 8 meters per second, and that's the order of magnitude. It's 3 with eight 0's after it. And something like a kilometer is 10 to the 3 meters. So light in one second goes five orders of magnitude further than a kilometer. And so when he says, I want 10 times as many drinks, he's actually ordering one order of magnitude more than anyone else, which is, of course, an order of magnitude. -So an infinite number of...
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[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK] -Is this thing on? [TAPPING] [COUGHING] -So a man walks into a bar. He asks for 10 times more drinks than everyone else. The barman says, now, that is an order of magnitude. MATT PARKER: Actually quite a good joke, because order of magnitude is how big a number is. The speed of light is 3 times 10 to the 8 meters per second, and that's the order of magnitude. It's 3 with eight 0's after it. And something like a kilometer is 10 to the 3 meters. So light in one second goes five orders of magnitude further than a kilometer. And so when he says, I want 10 times as many drinks, he's actually ordering one order of magnitude more than anyone else, which is, of course, an order of magnitude. -So an infinite number of...
