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  1. If you extend the numerical digits with letters, just like you would in hexadecimal but further up to A-Z in base 36, and you limit the ages to under 1000, and the gap to under a 100, then for bases 26 to 36 you get eleven palindrome ages with gaps of length base-1 and digit representation "POOP".

    E.g. in base 26: age1 = 674 = PO(26) and age2 = 649 = OP(26), age gap = 674 - 649 = 25.

    Ref. youtube.com/watch?v=fwLsCgibGw4 and youtube.com/watch?v=bIbTfdbQaSE

    #numberphile #mathematics #maths #recreationalmaths

  2. If you extend the numerical digits with letters, just like you would in hexadecimal but further up to A-Z in base 36, and you limit the ages to under 1000, and the gap to under a 100, then for bases 26 to 36 you get eleven palindrome ages with gaps of length base-1 and digit representation "POOP".

    E.g. in base 26: age1 = 674 = PO(26) and age2 = 649 = OP(26), age gap = 674 - 649 = 25.

    Ref. youtube.com/watch?v=fwLsCgibGw4 and youtube.com/watch?v=bIbTfdbQaSE

    #numberphile #mathematics #maths #recreationalmaths

  3. On avance dans l'implémentation du générateur de patterns inspiré des "cavaliers noirs et rouges" de la vidéo de Numberphile (youtube.com/watch?v=UiX4CFIiegM).

    Aujourd'hui: on met en place la possibilité d'avoir plusieurs joueurs/couleurs, et on vérifie qu'on arrive bien à reproduire l'exemple de la vidéo. Cela devrait nous permettre de commencer après à généraliser et à jouer à faire des nouvelles visualisations!

    Spirales et chevaliers | 3. deux joueurs, et plus? - clavier ouvert

    adfoucart.be/clavier/2026.05.1

    #numberphile #programmation

  4. Deuxième étape dans mon implémentation du générateur de patterns de la vidéo de #numberphile: où l'on arrive à reproduire la séquence "de base", avec un code plus ou moins propre, mais un résultat encore franchement moche il faut bien le dire!

    Spirales et chevaliers | 2. plateau et joueur - clavier ouvert

    adfoucart.be/clavier/2026.05.1

    #programmation #python

  5. Neil Sloane’s appearances are my favorite Numberphile episodes.

    #math #OEIS #Numberphile

  6. Neil Sloane’s appearances are my favorite Numberphile episodes.

    #math #OEIS #Numberphile

  7. Numberphile - “Red & Black Knights (extraordinary result)”

    Kinda like the discoveries of fractals, but it's all integers.

    youtube.com/watch?v=UiX4CFIiegM

    #math #OEIS #Numberphile

  8. Numberphile - “Red & Black Knights (extraordinary result)”

    Kinda like the discoveries of fractals, but it's all integers.

    youtube.com/watch?v=UiX4CFIiegM

    #math #OEIS #Numberphile

  9. La dernière vidéo de Numberphile avec le Prof. Neil Sloane m'a donné envie de faire ma propre version du générateur de "patterns". Outre la curiosité mathématique, je pense que code ça peut amener à des questions intéressantes de programmation. Essayons, on verra où ça nous mène !

    Spirales et chevaliers | 1 - clavier ouvert

    adfoucart.be/clavier/2026.05.1

    #numberphile #programmation

  10. #Numberphile videos with Neil Sloane are always fun but this one especially so because it has relatively easy to make visualisations that are still very surprising and largely unexplored. "Deterministic chaos" AKA we don't know yet how to model & predict these results.

    Main video: youtu.be/UiX4CFIiegM
    More variations: youtu.be/VgmDuBCayPw

  11. #Numberphile videos with Neil Sloane are always fun but this one especially so because it has relatively easy to make visualisations that are still very surprising and largely unexplored. "Deterministic chaos" AKA we don't know yet how to model & predict these results.

    Main video: youtu.be/UiX4CFIiegM
    More variations: youtu.be/VgmDuBCayPw

  12. @metgitarenenzo @ionica al fan van haar sinds de eerste keer dat ze bij #numberphile een uitzending had. Zeker 10 jaar geleden dus. Ze kan zo goed uitleggen. Fijne stem ook.

    Oh, na even zoeken: 11 jaar geleden zelfs. Gekkenhuis (:

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5

  13. @metgitarenenzo @ionica al fan van haar sinds de eerste keer dat ze bij #numberphile een uitzending had. Zeker 10 jaar geleden dus. Ze kan zo goed uitleggen. Fijne stem ook.

    Oh, na even zoeken: 11 jaar geleden zelfs. Gekkenhuis (:

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5

  14. loving this #Numberphile video that dropped today. love these sorts of unimaginable numbers/sizes/etc. youtu.be/sJqceEImtew?si=cfQvGL

  15. loving this #Numberphile video that dropped today. love these sorts of unimaginable numbers/sizes/etc. youtu.be/sJqceEImtew?si=cfQvGL

  16. There's a new #Numberphile video out with Ben Sparks. At the end they showed a teaser of another video with Ben, "Beautiful Trigonometry". Back when that came out, I recreated Ben's visualisation with settings and sliders in Processing's p5js. Try it! ednl.github.io/spirojs/

    Video alt: a colourful circle composed of miniature circles (balls) seems to spin around inside a bigger circle. It's an illusion: all the individual balls move in perfectly straight lines on diagonals of the big circle.

  17. There's a new #Numberphile video out with Ben Sparks. At the end they showed a teaser of another video with Ben, "Beautiful Trigonometry". Back when that came out, I recreated Ben's visualisation with settings and sliders in Processing's p5js. Try it! ednl.github.io/spirojs/

    Video alt: a colourful circle composed of miniature circles (balls) seems to spin around inside a bigger circle. It's an illusion: all the individual balls move in perfectly straight lines on diagonals of the big circle.

  18. “A New Way to Look at Möbius Strips”

    Nothing new in terms of results, even the ones that I knew as a kid, but a nice visualization that clarifies why things work out the way that they do.

    youtube.com/watch?v=izIKV98Awnw

    #Numberphile #geometry #math

  19. “A New Way to Look at Möbius Strips”

    Nothing new in terms of results, even the ones that I knew as a kid, but a nice visualization that clarifies why things work out the way that they do.

    youtube.com/watch?v=izIKV98Awnw

    #Numberphile #geometry #math

  20. Numperphile - “Lord of the Commutative Rings”

    This was the sort of stuff I loved in upper-level undergraduate mathematics.

    youtube.com/watch?v=1oqqpqaDgfI

    #Numberphile #math #maths #abstractAlgebra

  21. Numperphile - “Lord of the Commutative Rings”

    This was the sort of stuff I loved in upper-level undergraduate mathematics.

    youtube.com/watch?v=1oqqpqaDgfI

    #Numberphile #math #maths #abstractAlgebra

  22. Just heard a snippet of #numberphile on swedish radio 🙂

    The show "språket" has an episode all about numbers 👍 If you know swedish and like numbers you should toitally give it a listen.

    sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/flert

    #maths #numbers

  23. It's me! On #numberphile! Talking about my favourite polyhedron!

    youtu.be/3X2aQIMx5bs?feature=s

    After many years never being able to line up doing numberphile video, I was really glad that Brady and I ended up in the same place to do this. I love the animations and especially the sound effects!

  24. It's me! On #numberphile! Talking about my favourite polyhedron!

    youtu.be/3X2aQIMx5bs?feature=s

    After many years never being able to line up doing numberphile video, I was really glad that Brady and I ended up in the same place to do this. I love the animations and especially the sound effects!

  25. Playing with in light of the recent video.

  26. I really like #numberphile so it's doubly disappointing to see them giving so much space (and legitimacy!) to effin' chatGPT in their latest videos :/

  27. Some Friday afternoon #numberphile to warm your brain up: youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ZPdnHGz

    This one's about Very Big Numbers

  28. youtu.be/wyGNbs2mf5M?si=KU69ib

    fractals in reality from Hideki Tsuiki via #numberphile

    that h-fractal absolutely has my heart. i want to see it 10 times the size. it's like some weird reality where mathematics is projected into the real world.

  29. “A 1.58-Dimensional Object”

    youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhnZbDprE

    Even better when it gets to the “integer dimensioned" fractals.

    #math #maths #Numberphile #fractals

  30. I learned via #Numberphile about Sloane's Gap, an empty band that appears when you plot counts of integers appearing in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS.org). Here's the 2011 original plot and my updated version with 2024 data and coloring some categories.
    arxiv.org/pdf/1101.4470

  31. I’ve always enjoyed reading Donald Knuth but listening to him in numberphile.com/podcast/donald somehow doesn’t sit well. #knuth #tex #numberphile

  32. I had to watch the latest episode of #numberphile through my fingers: food in the library! Arghh 😱

    The lazy caterer's sequence:
    youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9UZSodeN

  33. Hey, #maths types. New #numberphile video about "the lazy caterer's sequence", maximising the number of pieces you can cut a pizza into with straight-line cuts by ensuring that each cut intersects all previous cuts, so that after n cuts you've got 1+Σn pieces. But doing it the obvious way tends to give lots of tiny little triangular bits. Has anyone looked into how to keep the slices as close to equal as possible? I can't find anything. Is it not even remotely possible?
    youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9UZSodeN