Money Catching - Numberphile
Tadashi Tokieda puts $20 on the line... More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More Tadashi videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids Paperclips: https://youtu.be/wGkvyN6s9cY Video...
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Here is a perfectly legal $20 banknote from the United States of America, and the gamble is, you extend your fingers like this in a V-shape and you try to catch it when I drop the banknote like this -- yeah? -- in mid-flight. And if you can catch it when I drop it you get the bank note, and if you don't you don't get the banknote. I'm going to drop it at some ... [Brady, off camera] *argh* [Professor] ... unannounced time. [Brady] Ok. [Brady] *argh* [Prof] You shouldn't guess. *laughs* [Brady] *argh* [Prof] One more time. [Brady] *ohhh* Now most people, at least the vast majority of people, can't get it. And that's because there is something called the reaction time in most humans. In other words, you see something or you feel s...
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Here is a perfectly legal $20 banknote from the United States of America, and the gamble is, you extend your fingers like this in a V-shape and you try to catch it when I drop the banknote like this -- yeah? -- in mid-flight. And if you can catch it when I drop it you get the bank note, and if you don't you don't get the banknote. I'm going to drop it at some ... [Brady, off camera] *argh* [Professor] ... unannounced time. [Brady] Ok. [Brady] *argh* [Prof] You shouldn't guess. *laughs* [Brady] *argh* [Prof] One more time. [Brady] *ohhh* Now most people, at least the vast majority of people, can't get it. And that's because there is something called the reaction time in most humans. In other words, you see something or you feel s...
