Nice.

Yess haha

I choked on my toothbrush

Thats Wanganumb

361!

Reminds me of my German girlfriend, she liked to rate our sex, one time I decided to try an@l...my best score ever 😁

Age old slapstick comedy, always pleases the simple minded :P

@@TanjoGalbi do you have to be a dick?

​@@TanjoGalbi Some of the most classic comedies like Mr Bean or films made by Charlie Chaplin are slapstick, and were made by very inteligent people, so I don't think it's fair to consider that solely for "the simple minded".

@@TanjoGalbi Slapstick's hilarious. It takes a lack of intelligence to insult someone for liking that.

Didn't your parents tell you not to feed the trolls? Way to get played boys.

Why'd you change it from t?

If only she had an ass...

@@ClaudeSac if only you could judge her by her personality and not be disappointed that a comedian you'll never meet "doesnt have an ass"

@@dilloncox1384 He's referencing the Carol Vorderman imitation you idiot.

How are they an idiot for not catching a reference to a bloody impression of someone else? This is why references are rarely funny.

Indeed. But - as you said - it does require *some* of the earlier material. So while not taking hundreds of pages it is not a one page job either. I have never even tried to check this myself - but many years ago someone that supposedly knew what he was talking about - told me that it would still take some tens of pages (if my memory serves).

You can still use as trivia that there are hundreds of pages worth of maths that are more fundamental than 1+1=2 though.

Thats not true though. I can write the sentence as A + B = C while A is the sum of 100 pages, and B is another 100 pages. Just because someone can simplify an equation to a single page, doesn't mean that the 200 pages aren't needed. The single page of logic is useless without the 200 pages of axioms needed. Thats like saying E=mc² is the just one simple line to explain mass-energy equivalence without noting its a simplified version of E²=(mc²)²+(pc)² in which that is expanded even more to include M = μ + E0/c2 & a frame relevant M_rel = E/c2 without 10,000 pages of priors, mass-energy equivalance being written as a single line would not be possible. Math is just descriptive. Its not like someone plucked a platonic E=mc² measurement from space. Theres too many armchair commenters thinking they have a grasp on things because they have listened to a science communicator tell them a story. [BRA | KET] and Psi are alien concepts to you and QED. Its easy to describe the path a ball takes rolling downhill. but to understand a geodesic path in curved spacetime that can loop infinitely while never changing it's vector, shows gravitation is a pseudo force, and a force should change a path according to newtonian mechanics, but gravity isnt actually a force, it doesnt change your path, it changes the road youre traveling on (3space). You can travel straight down a straight road, and you can also travel straight down a road that curves. you wouldnt know the difference without relativity, a 2nd observer to show the pathis different for each person and the combination of both perspectives leaving the difference to be the true path. Same thing happens with path integrals and the path of least action to form the arrow of time. Its easy to tell when someone parrots science communicators vs someone who took the courses to actually understand it.

All very well, however I think anyone who needs a book to explain that one plus one equals two is going to struggle with some of the most fundamental problems of the world.

Justin James Houman congratulations, you may have just typed the most boring comment in the history of youtube.

Palindromic numbers don’t work

Got a bit unlucky with the original difference being 99 rather than a three-digit number, though!

She said "stop shouting no at me in German"

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE GREAT TIMES WHEN I CAN TURN OFF THE VIDEO AND READ SOMEONE'S COMMENT INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO THE COMEDIAN MAKE THE JOKE

@@samharper5881 but why?

@@b__c7538 lmao

And this is why normal people hate maths...

I love these kinds of proofs! Also, I'm glad she didn't ask for the 89th word on page 10... it could have taken much longer

@@nadinewesterveld5597 I was thinking that book surely doesn't have 1089 pages

Well, you still have to account for the variable of whether or not Noel Fielding will be able to count to 10

Sweet, I was hoping someone would do that thank you.

not always. if the audience chose 3 times the same number, like 222 or 333, etc... it's always 0 equally if it's a number like 242 or 525 etc... it's gonna be 0

@@efari the 'magician' will say it has to be ANOTHER number, not one that has already been selected

I did not know any of these 3 things. Awesome :D Thanks QI commenters.

@@TimSheehan good thinking

I’ve found that it doesn’t work when the first number and the reverse of it equal a negative number

Except incomplete and consistent still has value.

Not any system of axioms, Gödel just showed those of the complexity of the Principia (aka Peano arithmetic) are incomplete. There are weaker axiomitizations of arithmetic (e.g. Presburger arithmetic, and Skolem arithmetic) that are both complete and consistent. There are also weaker axiomitizations that are incomplete, i.e. Robinson arithmetic, which shows that it is not axiom schema of induction that is the cause of the incompleteness, but the ability to code Gödel numbers that is essential to show incompleteness.

"This works because..." doesn't actually explain why that makes it work. It's a bit like me asking how a car moves and you saying "Because you put hydrocarbons in to it." I think it's numberphile that have a really good video about it :)

@@andymcl92 And you don't explain it, either. And you don't even give a link to the video. Thanks for the help!

@@JimC Well at the time I was a bit busy and thought anyone who cared would be able to search KZfaq themselves for the two words "numberphile" and "cyclic" and click on the first video. But if that's too tricky, here you go! :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbuclLiS0c3coX0.html

I figured this out in maths one day instead of paying attention, very trippy. Also: 14 = 7*2 42= 7*6 28 =7*4 85 = 7(2*6)+1 57 = 7*(2*4)+1 71 = 7*(6+4)+1 42-14 = 28 85-71= 14 71-57= 14 85-57= 28...etc 1+4+2+8+5+7+1 = 28

@@andymcl92 Always a mistake to imagine anyone on KZfaq can do anything for themselves. Hence the creation of "let me google that for you" I'm sure you can find the link yourse...oh bugger.

@EdgyShooter As opposed to that dribbling idiot cunning the runt tree‽¿‽

I am reminded of Chansey happy slapping Meowth

I recall that it made more sense in the context of the episode. I think it was to be the treatment for a 19th century alleged ailment suffered by women.

@@OriginalPiMan Ah. Thanks!

I wish he would’ve she was be genuinely annoying

I love that laugh, it's the laugh of someone who is suffering a total mental break

Yes its called aging.

He shares the same sense of humour as me, angry logic. The difference between him and me is that he has self confidence and can perform his comedy in front of other people and has become a success. I lack any form of self confidence so I am a nobody. Oh well. Good on him :)

@@TanjoGalbi That's not angry logic, that's self-pity. Evidently, i'm more sarcastic than funny.

@@oscargr_ He uses angry logic for his comedy, that's his style of humour. That is also my style. Though you are right that here I was using self pity humour but you should hear me when I am ranting about random things or things people say wrong ;)

@@TanjoGalbi The main difference between you and him is that he's actually funny...

@@jackevans1092 No idea why I was not alerted to your reply 4 weeks ago but why the hell are you correcting me on a word I did not use? xD

@Just John Oddly enough tho ewe couldn't be bothered show Aisling the respect of spelling her name correctly CLarseACT.

85 isn't a multiple of 7.

oh, yeah, you are right. I knew it broke somewhere, but I made that small mistake

No, there are better things to do in life.

Lol totally.

"Pause"? It's simple mental arithmetic ... I did it in my head while watching. The top line adds up to 182 .. which was instantly recognisable as a multiple of 7 - I saw it as 140 + 42 ... (20*7)+(6*7) - others might see 91*2 or 210-28 ... then 26+55 ... it's always going to be 81=9² ... or -9² :P The only issue with it is that there are two possible solutions for √4, but I guessed that QI (or the creator of the limerick) wasn't geeky enough to consider that.

DrDespicable 0:16 yESS

Border Collies Are beautiful it still works with that number, 942 - 249 = 693, 693 + 396 = 1089.

Well pointed out, but I think that the numbers were more hypothetical to illustrate a theory.

Numberphile did an entire episode about that phoenominon.

@IspamObjection Is your profile pic R. Mika rule34?

That really depends on if you can buy them separately where you live. Where I live, you can't.

I just had the same thing happen to me.

How do you forget basic math?

It's actually easier to count up from the smaller number.

​@@isabellaangeline2175 By not being able to remember it.

Basically it is the periodic result you'll get if you divide 1/7. That will be 0.142847142857... (repeat 142857 ad infinitum). Which will result in 7/7=0.999999 (repeat 999999 ad infinitum). 0.9999999999... equals 1. So basically the "1" you're losing at the end by shortening the periodic number will be added to the part beofre the decimal point.

*21 x 142857 = 2999997; 2+999997 = 999999

@@n200518 Thanks for the correction, I got sloppy when copy-pasting from the 14x line. btw, the pattern holds for negative numbers too, just hold the minus in front and do the positive thing inside the parenthesis: -26 x 142857 = -(3714282); -(3 + 714282) = -714285

Would have been way funnier

@@joelbacker10 Except Sandi wouldn't have let it happen, she'd simply have asked for a different number, same as any stage magician would.

And here I was scrolling down to see if anyone else noticed that, too!

Yes of course. It was so obvious 😬😧😂😂😂

🤓

How a teacher might critique that:- Poor grammar: It should start with "An" not "A". Also girl is lower case G in both uses, limerick is lower case L and you are missing punctuation marks. Factual error: "Giggles at the sight of a limerick", she giggled when the limerick was read out so that should be "Giggled at the sound of a limerick". Plus it's technically an audience not a crowd but that one can be put down to artistic interpretation! :) And finally the limerick as a whole does not conform to the rhythm that defines a limerick. Nice try though :)

​@John M Is that directed at Rob or me? :)

@John M I'm a strange person and I wanted to see if I could.

@@TanjoGalbi yes my grammar sucks it was a quick thing I did in 5 minutes if I were handing it in for marks, decades ago, I might have fixed that in a second draft of such a silly thing. Crowd and audience have a difference syllable count or I would have used it. The Capitals is an odd quark I have that may have come from studying German when I was young I don't know. I tend to Capitalize words of importance or for emphasis (It is also a common sight in marketing and what is poetry and humour if not a form of marketing ;). Girl, Limerick. The limerick was of course visually shown. Sight is a correct usage as it was both shown and heard without the visual element the laughter would have been fairly muted I suspect. (Of course when you move as much as I did growing up you learn that grammar is taught at a different pace and in different orders in different school boards. As such I missed huge swaths of it and had to learn what I could later. As it doesn't interest me I have bad grammar. Though much better than it was.)

Everything my math Prof does which is "trivial and does not need explanation" i call mathemagics.

Yep, he always is.

@@grobannoel I've been watching Peep show from the beginning. Friggin hilarious

Good, but it needs the American pronunciation of Z as "ZEE". In the UK it's "Zed".

They used to be sold in 9 counts. Just not anymore.

As long as the number isn't three of the same digit (111, 222, etc), the answer will always be 1089 (or -1089 if the first number is smaller than its inverted form)

And they do it with a smile, no not really, it has to have become quite stale by now. I wonder how many poor mcd workers have gotten orders for 43 nugget by now?

If you think *you're* nervous...

it helps if you dont suck at it

I suck at basic maths now. I havent done maths in years and i never practice it. I should work on it 🤔

*You're

To get my physics degree, one of the things I had to do was teach a topic and do a 20 minute presentation where I derived how to do something. They do it for that very reason, because math gets harder the closer you get to the board in front of an audience LOL!

Except 42 wasn't the answer to life, the universe, and everything. As they actually asked what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Turns out the ultimate question was "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?"

My dad is an accountant, and one of his favourite sayings is “show me a lawyer, and I’ll show you a maths error”

Bet you are fun at parties

I went to law school, not math school

Truly, one of the great moments in QI history. A stance for the ages.

She meant under the rules that she established, making it correct. Under the actual rules, it isn’t

What is encouraging is that nobody suggested to buy 44 and just eat one. That would be just horrible.

@@oscargr_ An extra McNugget?! Don't be absurd!

But that’s 44, which isn’t 43😥

Maybe I get it all wrong (or have gaps in the understanding of the English language), but shouldn't it be “the lowest number you can’t buy”?

+ No Neck Yes she is oddly attractive.

She is sweet.

Imaginative!

@@dux2508 How so? He just wrote it down as it was.

@@minners71 Because it's an alternate phrasing of the limerick. If you mispronounce "nought"...

Aye... there comes a point where you have to define your terms... like proving what your own name is, it's a faulty concept, because you don't discover your own name, you decide it (or your parents do, but the point being, the meaning of the word is given, not found). So "two" is defined as being "one plus one" by the equals sign, so "1+1=2" is a statement that defines what the terms mean in relation to each other, there's no question mark, it's just like what I'm doing here... saying the exact same thing in multiple ways *lol*

And nobody cared

Thanks for giving Whitehead part credit. Re "wasn't proving 1 plus 1 equals two": correctimundo. And the incompleteness theorem is a beautiful thing :-)

2+2=4-1=3 quick math. Just extrapolate on that.

That should be "how do I do maths". (yes I'm English :P )

First you got to prove 1+1=2.

No, that giggly little girl routine is _really_ annoying.

@@zapkvr Maybe psychotherapy would help you. Feeling violent urges when you see a person having a good time is not healthy, well-adjusted, or sane. Help is out there, try looking for it.

@@jessicalee333 I'm good thanks. I have these impulses. And I control them. Unlike other people. Dismissed

MathS. We're not American, thankyou.

Maths*

I understand your Hitchhiker's Guide reference :D

It's also incorrect. You can get McNuggets in packs of 4 ( *if* you order a Happy Meal).

@@CynBH it has already been established that the show is not correct on that fact now but at the time it was aired on TV it was correct. Facts can change!

@@TanjoGalbi 1.) 4 packs in the Happy Meal have been available for at least 20 years. That fact isn't new. 2.) I apparently failed miserably at sarcasm. Oops. Oh well. 🤷

@@CynBH Yep, you failed at sarcasm. There was nothing in what you wrote to indicate any sarcasm at all as it reads as nothing but factual :)

So is the plague

so then just 1+ (-1) = 0?

@@2Cerealbox Yes, unless a + or - permeates another n or zero. In that case the 0 could contain a positive or negative charge too . Lately though I've been wondering if all the macro & micro of the Universe isn't binary. I haven't started checking that out yet. Any thoughts or opinions?

I've got this guys. Ahem. No.

Don't know if you still need it, but just in case and for anyone else interested, there's this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9l-rLp3ttnYpKM.html

@@theheathbar123 Thank you!

"And you have to bring up his halitosis. I mean, what an achievement."

If you also have a 3 pack, the highest impossible number drops to 37. (43 is 20,20,3).

That was a recent change I think to combat that problem. Numberphile have done a video on it.