What was the first (known) maths mistake?

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3 жыл бұрын

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@standupmaths 3 жыл бұрын

To answer a common comment: I think the correct version should be 10 × ½ = 5. You could argue 5 × ½ = 2½ but I think it's not in keeping with the tablet. Also: people seem to enjoy this new style of high production value video. And there could be plenty more where that came from, if, you know... www.patreon.com/standupmaths

@frool76 3 жыл бұрын

It would be great if you would've included some examples of the operation in use. You're most likely right with your point it was supposed to be 10*(1/2)=5, but maybe it was the definition of a somehow neutral operation? Without knowing more about their math system, it's hard to tell if the writing or our understand is wrong.

@jorn-jorenjorenson5028 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, those animations are so great and the ancient styled music and jingles are awesome, really loved it!

@hebl47 3 жыл бұрын

I really love your theme remixes!

@ThePhoenixpaw 3 жыл бұрын

But, there's another mistake. You see Ku Shim's mistake wasn't the first know to man, but the oldest to survive to this day. But then, what mathematician cares about accuracy?

@Cr42yguy 3 жыл бұрын

I still like seeing your face though. Your grin is priceless!

@peeng3066 3 жыл бұрын

“Don’t worry, everyone makes mistakes, no one will remember tomorrow.” 5000 years later:

@elrac7333 3 жыл бұрын

Poor person will never live it down.

@sammeboi7920 3 жыл бұрын

Well, I bet no one remembered it the next day

@raharmakis 3 жыл бұрын

I filled out 50 000 Tablets in my day... And you Kept the THREE I F'd Up on!!! Gawd... Why did we ever invent Human Resources!!!

@skalra63 3 жыл бұрын

Ha, remember that kushim guy that got that multiplication wrong?

@mikebar42 3 жыл бұрын

Tomorrow never comes

@janTasita 3 жыл бұрын

I hope everyone realizes that this video is about 5000 year old spreadsheets.

@xander1052 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful

@Allumik 3 жыл бұрын

5000y old spreadsheets on 5000y old tablets

@stevenmcclary534 3 жыл бұрын

@@Allumik the more things change...

@tekvax01 3 жыл бұрын

...and spreadsheets on a tablet, no less! :P

@sgttomas 3 жыл бұрын

I actually thought of my workplace during the video

@coltin1494 3 жыл бұрын

Kushim : "work is so stressful" Kushim's wife: "its ok, what's the worse that can happen?" *5000 years later* "lol check out this dumbass"

@FLS96 3 жыл бұрын

Two top comments in one video.. nice

@coltin1494 3 жыл бұрын

@@FLS96 battin 1000 on this vid lol I'll never understand the YT algorithm, I wrote both comments back to back, the other one got likes and this one had 0 likes for the first 2 months then YT started showing it to people again, probably since the other comment was getting likes, idk this came outta nowhere

@MitchellD249 3 жыл бұрын

"Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal." - Ernest Hemingway One of those ways is apparently being an idiot.

@gavinbrown216 3 жыл бұрын

@@MitchellD249 don’t forget the guy who sold bad copper

@kylezo 2 жыл бұрын

This is the only kind of brutally dark humor that makes my meaningless existence slightly less unbearable for a brief moment lol

@coltin1494 3 жыл бұрын

Moral of the story: Even if you're an ancient accountant, the internet will still make fun of you

@yeetdosis39 3 жыл бұрын

no one escapes lmao

@Nugcon 3 жыл бұрын

We really be out here laughing at some guy that made a small math mistake from 5000 years ago

@AlecsNeo 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at this video , the system in the video makes as much sense as the imperial system

@yeetdosis39 3 жыл бұрын

@@AlecsNeo lmao

@D00000T 3 жыл бұрын

@@Nugcon our species have always been assholes to each other so this is not that unexpected

@tankinator451 3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: this isn’t the earliest recorded math mistake, it’s the earliest recorded embezzlement scheme

@ultimatecalibur 3 жыл бұрын

Or record of a minor loss of 15 bowls of barley due to spillage, settling, pests or testing when transferring between storage containers. 15 bowls is only a .38% loss of the roughly 3910 bowls they had

@hamag3655 3 жыл бұрын

@@ultimatecalibur They just "fell off the chariot".

@taelim6599 3 жыл бұрын

@@hamag3655 Quite tragic to lose 20 bowls of barley. I don't know what we'll do after losing those 21 bowls

@orion5992 3 жыл бұрын

@@ultimatecalibur good point!

@rauminen4167 3 жыл бұрын

@@taelim6599 I think we should ignore those 25 bowls. It's such a small amount. What do you think Nisa? You can sign off on those missing 30 bowls, right?

@bigbayesian9395 3 жыл бұрын

“Why do I need learn math, I’ll be able to carry my abacus anywhere!”

@derpmann2615 3 жыл бұрын

Lol yeaaah..... funny how we never corrected that.....

@knexman427 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said

@10names55 2 жыл бұрын

Math is not only calculations

@GBOAC 2 жыл бұрын

@@10names55 woooosh

@jeffcampsall5435 2 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to when you can wear an abacus on your wrist 👍

@robnorris4770 3 жыл бұрын

That symbol for which you don’t know the meaning means “Do NOT show this tablet to the tax collector”.

@orion5992 3 жыл бұрын

GREAT POINT!

@thePronto 3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe: "This is the version for the tax collector" (since it's short)

@EdwardNavu 3 жыл бұрын

@@thePronto "For tax reference"

@Bumi-90 3 жыл бұрын

It might be the symbol, to throw away this tablet, because of an error in accounting

@tomstonemale 3 жыл бұрын

I assumed it was the location of where the barley was stored or from what area was harvested from.

@SkyWriter25 3 жыл бұрын

Henceforth, messing up a math problem will be know as “pulling a Kushim”.

@leonardolopes618 3 жыл бұрын

Classic Kushim square.

@neilgerace355 3 жыл бұрын

The silly sanga

@Oricksio 3 жыл бұрын

kushim moment

@nate_storm 2 жыл бұрын

@@neilgerace355 sussy baka

@Games_and_Music Жыл бұрын

Kushim Parker was Matt's ancestor

@thehoodedteddy1335 3 жыл бұрын

“I forgot to check my work, oh well, I’m sure no one will notice.” -Kushim, not knowing how wrong he was.

@migtrewornan8085 3 жыл бұрын

You'd think 15 bowls out of 30,000 probably wasn't a error he got in trouble for.

@ZeroOskul 3 жыл бұрын

I believe that quote is universal to everyone who ever worked out some math.

@MichaelOnines 3 жыл бұрын

@@migtrewornan8085 Considering how imprecise a bowl is as a practical measuring implement, that's well within the margin of measurement error. I doubt their bowls were calibrated to 0.05%, and even if they were, the measurement process using bowls wouldn't be that precise.

@tomaskot9278 3 жыл бұрын

If he only knew his error would get all over KZfaq.

@peterkelley6344 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomaskot9278 or would be known all over the world!

@TheAssassin409 3 жыл бұрын

poor Kushim, being remembered 5000 years later only for his mistakes.

@JosephDavies 3 жыл бұрын

It's a _certain kind_ of immortality, for sure...

@flippinkamikaze8738 3 жыл бұрын

Better Kushim than Abu Hajar...

@Kokurorokuko 3 жыл бұрын

just like Matt Parker

@Bismvth 3 жыл бұрын

Also for being a fcking baller apparently, selling metric tonnes of beer

@givrally7634 3 жыл бұрын

Better than being known for selling really shitty copper...

@MinnesotaExpat 3 жыл бұрын

What I'm taking from this as a 21st century engineer: there are two constants in civilization, beer and paperwork.

@kingumi644 3 жыл бұрын

what about death and taxes

@Igor_054 3 жыл бұрын

@@kingumi644 It is all connected. Beer causes death and taxes cause paperwork.

@rainbowrotcod 2 жыл бұрын

@@lawliet2263 and juicy men.

@paule_muc 2 жыл бұрын

Id argue that paperwork causes beer but thats just me

@bag.a.6465 2 жыл бұрын

@@paule_muc it's all interdependant, such is the way of history.

@Voodoomaria 3 жыл бұрын

The first math mistake was: "Look, there's THREE of us, and only ONE Mammoth. Dudes, we got this."

@anawesomepet 2 жыл бұрын

He means mistakes in math, not mistakes caused by math. Hey wooooshers, I'm just making a correction. I understand the joke.

@aidangarvey7049 2 жыл бұрын

@@anawesomepet just because you understand the joke doesn't make your comment completely pointless

@the-real-zpero 2 жыл бұрын

That's a judgment error not a math error. Your joke doesn't even work.

@sandybathwater8385 2 жыл бұрын

I laughed, that makes the joke worthwhile. :)

@FeedsNoSliesMusic 2 жыл бұрын

It's true, many forget that mammoths are four people each.

@justindie7543 3 жыл бұрын

Space archeologists reading my physics homework 5000 years from now: “Haha look he got his math wrong”

@peter9477 3 жыл бұрын

Also your professor, reading it tomorrow...

@T33K3SS3LCH3N 3 жыл бұрын

"This homework by Justin is the last time any human ever did math mistake. He represents the last holdover of this dark age of humanity. Please point and laugh."

@trueaidooo 3 жыл бұрын

@@T33K3SS3LCH3N not until we get robot brain implants will we stop making math mistakes

@jozsefkalmar7054 3 жыл бұрын

@@trueaidooo not even then if our implants are anything like early Pentiums

@DanielGonzalez-pg6pc 3 жыл бұрын

why do I see you literally everywhere

@John73John 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if people are still talking about the Parker Square 5,000 years from now.

@oliverbrooker882 3 жыл бұрын

@8:22

@redpepper74 3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverbrooker882 waitwaitwait _that’s what that was_

@dannydgeek 3 жыл бұрын

I laughed so loud at 8:22 that I think my neighbors wonder about me. Some things don't change.

@General12th 3 жыл бұрын

Everything is recorded everywhere. It's more likely than you think!

@BigBubbles9000 3 жыл бұрын

All that will be remembered is the Parker Square

@Metalhammer1993 3 жыл бұрын

To save Kushim's honor here: that's nozt a maths mistake. that is history's first ever typo!

@rayes119 Жыл бұрын

Right Assuming we interpreted it correctly

@tetraphobie 2 жыл бұрын

I can imagine they were aware of the wrong symbol being used in that tablet but didn't correct it because clay tablets are hard to fix. Happens way too often among programmers nowadays. "It's not a bug worth fixing if it's a pain in the butt to fix and we have a workaround." Fascinating video btw.

@trueriver1950 Жыл бұрын

Notice how both USB sticks and clay tablets hold their info on silicon: it's just packaged rather differently

@Red1Revival 5 ай бұрын

I think your theory is most likely correct. it's the most reasonable. it's something we know is likely to happen, and likely to occur in the way you describe

@oopsthatwentwell 3 жыл бұрын

You missed a point in the closing statement - we are still making mistakes - we are still brewing beer - And we are still use tablets

@kurumi394 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, humans. Don't ever change

@paradauxio 3 жыл бұрын

You just made a math mistake if your own. You claim to have "a" point yet provide 3 distinct points. I'm sure you and Kushim would get along just fine!

@AfonsodelCB 3 жыл бұрын

@@paradauxio are you trying to bait someone into correcting you with your fake correction? is this all a ploy?? well I replied to you!! are you happy now??!?!!

@AfonsodelCB 3 жыл бұрын

btw it's "using tablets" OP, but oh well

@VainerCactus0 3 жыл бұрын

@@paradauxio That was covered that in the first point. :)

@itwasinthispositionerinoag7414 3 жыл бұрын

My man Ku Shim skimming 15 bowls of barley off the top for his personal brewery

@BrianSantero 3 жыл бұрын

"But I *knead* this barley for myself."

@volodyadykun6490 3 жыл бұрын

We just didn't found his personal tablets with perfect maths

@evansaschow 3 жыл бұрын

Hold up. Is that a Kripperino for a different channel?

@jeffreyhueseman7061 3 жыл бұрын

Inventory was taken, 15 bowls of wastage or sampling losses.

@peterkelley6344 3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyhueseman7061 That may be more the reason for the error.

@willsbury5150 3 жыл бұрын

plot twist: kushim was embezzling and just didn't expect anyone to check his work.

@sadkritx6200 3 жыл бұрын

And here we are 5000 years later 😅😂

@estergrant6713 2 жыл бұрын

plot twist kushim was embezzling, expected his work to be checked against the actual grain and so built in some “breakage” on the record so that the record matched what the grain was

@willyolio9590 3 жыл бұрын

this is why math teachers always need you to show your work. so people can laugh at you 5000 years later

@2Fast4Mellow 2 жыл бұрын

What makes you think your teachers aren't laughing at you right now???

@The_Tactical_Taco 3 жыл бұрын

The lesson I learned today is: If you get caught practicing "creative accounting", just claim it's a maths mistake...

@kendalbridges897 3 жыл бұрын

seeing as how it's in the cooking range of things it simply could have been lost due to bad batch, spillage, spoilage, and they just didn't include the reason for the shortage in the document

@zyaicob 3 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Carr is taking notes

@leogama3422 3 жыл бұрын

"It's just a small bug in the code, anyone could have made this mistake"

@judgeomega 3 жыл бұрын

or better yet; destroy the evidence

@peterhayton5417 3 жыл бұрын

Or clam it as a spelling mistake

@donnalysan 3 жыл бұрын

I remember once reading a guide to stockkeeping for royal courts. It stated that you had to remove 0.03% from a total of grain bushels to allow for settling and crushed grains. The manuscript I read was from Denmark in the 18th century and warned that it was unethical to punish grainkeepers for this natural disappearance, which has been documented since time immeasurable.

@smaakjeks 3 жыл бұрын

So, the stock keepers were cereal offenders?

@RandomTomatoSoup 3 жыл бұрын

@@smaakjeks I don't think you've read what they wrote properly

@joep4life 3 жыл бұрын

I think the expression is "time immemorial"

@MrJeberg 3 жыл бұрын

There's a Danish phrase "being round-handed". Now it means "one who gladly gives money/stuff to others", but back in the day when tax collectors met with peasants to get grain as tax, they would dig into a grain bag with a big cup, and scrape off the top with their hand, to ensure they took exactly a cup of grain. However some collectors curved their hand so that they got more grain per cup; they were being "round-handed". This of course upset farmers and at some point the tax collectors were ordered to use a scraping stick instead to avoid cheating. This is what I remember reading, but correct me if I'm wrong.

@Jehty21 3 жыл бұрын

@@RandomTomatoSoup I don't think you have read what he wrote properly.

@adanpalomo9879 3 жыл бұрын

I too tend to make math mistakes when large amounts of beer are involved

@justanalien7255 2 жыл бұрын

Don't derive while drunk

@ljoreilly1068 2 жыл бұрын

Just an alien underrated comment

@Oturan20 Жыл бұрын

@@justanalien7255 Don't Drink and Derive.

@michaelcherokee8906 Жыл бұрын

I make math mistakes when stone cold sober. When beer is involved, math makes me mistakes!

@CommissarMitch 3 жыл бұрын

Kushim's Ghost be like "God damnit they still talk about that?"

@00Krohnos 3 жыл бұрын

"Typed into their tablet" got me

@tiberiu_nicolae 3 жыл бұрын

Kushim should've turned on auto-correct

@MWSin1 3 жыл бұрын

Siri's voice recognition wasn't nearly so good back then.

@gasdive 3 жыл бұрын

They were touch sensitive tablets too.

@josephcohen734 3 жыл бұрын

@@gasdive Great dad joke, among the best in fact

@Kyrelel 3 жыл бұрын

"Type" is another word for "impression", so .. :/

@goldrake821 3 жыл бұрын

They say you die twice: once when you actually die, and again when nobody remembers your name. Well, long live ku shim!

@AfonsodelCB 3 жыл бұрын

uh... I mean, I don't know the history of these documents, but if they went missing for any length of time, wouldn't his name have been forgotten and then remembered again? does that mean he died twice already and came back to life?

@andrewhawkins6754 3 жыл бұрын

@@AfonsodelCB Christ may have risen after 3 days, but Kushim took a few thousand years

@felicvik9456 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewhawkins6754 Really long respawn time

@luiservela 3 жыл бұрын

I heard it different: you die first when you realize you will die. You die second when your heart stops. You die third when your name is pronounced for the last time.

@mjp121 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, weird thinking that I have every intent to live longer than the first recorded name. Not 'live on in history,' just... live. Might not make it, but I'm hopeful.

@ericcolvin3546 3 жыл бұрын

5:48 "Probably made sense at the time..." I expect it did. 5 x 6 is close to the number of days in a month, and ten times that feels reassuringly close to the number of days in a year - for which other mathematicians would surely have been developing systems (all civilisations seem to enjoy predicting movements of the sun, moon, stars and planets - one reason, I'm willing to bet, that we retain 360° in a circle, with 90 of those degrees in a right angle). 9,000 divides by 360 elegently into 25. If you are doing these sorts of calculations without the aid of more recent calculating machines, systems that work with factors of 3, 4, 5 and 10 are all very handy for mental arithmetic and division into shares.

@ebob0531 2 жыл бұрын

I suspect also there may have been use in this divisions for being put on an abacus (which would be very limited in space and number of counting beads that could be placed on it). So helping in both mental math and use of an abacus wouldve been crucial

@WJS774 Жыл бұрын

Round numbers in base 10 are pretty bad if you want to divide them evenly. 100 has only seven factors, while 90, despite being smaller, has ten. 360 has 22, compared to only 13 in 400.

@despy1855 3 жыл бұрын

Picture this: You’re laying on your deathbed, before your death, you hear your god say: “Kusmin, you shall be remember for 5000 years.” For what my lord?” “Making a math mistake.” “NOOOOOOOOO!”

@damienasmodeus928 3 жыл бұрын

Since it was ancient Uruk I would say that instead of the Lord he would see goddess Inanna/Ishtar

@FrankAtanassow 3 жыл бұрын

This was extremely well-produced. Kudos to your graphic designer.

@Zolbat 3 жыл бұрын

And don't forget the music

@kaiirossbaird7623 3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@sharpfang 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, also one couple thousand years old guy - that's a tileset from The Royal Game of Ur.

@JarvidO 3 жыл бұрын

They wanted to do the soomer meme

@dg-hughes 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be funny if the animator made a mistake. Then 5,000 years later a Blorgon holo-influencer finds it and sees a name "William Marler".

@harry.tallbelt6707 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, props to the animator, this looks so pretty! (Props to the person who rerecorded the channel's theme too!)

@JacobRy 3 жыл бұрын

i know this is some effort wow

@unvergebeneid 3 жыл бұрын

5:12 Wow, that bowl-dot system makes almost as little sense as imperial units!

@ClaireGrob 3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@zandaroos553 3 жыл бұрын

Metric? Sounds like Egyptian nonsense. We would never be able to cultivate wheat with metric! Bowl-Dot is the PATRIOTIC measurement system of Mesopotamia

@gavinpascucci3419 3 жыл бұрын

The bowls and dots make perfect sense if you count in base 60

@RJSRdg 3 жыл бұрын

Depends how you look at things - for past civilisations an inch (roughly the length of the end of your thumb), a foot, a cubit (length from your elbow to the end of your middle finger) were measurements everyone could relate to, even if everyone's inches, feet and cubits were different sizes, you could usually get a decent approximation. Units based on 1 ten millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator are rather harder to visualise!

@unvergebeneid 3 жыл бұрын

@@RJSRdg sure, but by "imperial units" I meant the _system_ of measurements and not how handy the individual units are when you're stranded on a desert island without a tape measure. These days we need to calculate more and count less and there, the system based on the length of the king's foot really shows its age. But hey, if you're really in a pinch, a yard's about a meter.

@tonyeaglestone4791 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the difference in multipliers could be a result of the way they were stacking/storing the grain. So there could be 5 in a jar, 6 in a crate, ten crates in a row, stacked three high and then 10 rows per area (for example). You could then compare the tablets to the stock to ensure you had what you thought. Essentially building a system based off what you were doing practically.

@rogerbye4047 Жыл бұрын

This makes a lot of sense. Ten is the only multiplier that occurs more than once; other multipliers based on practicality is quite convincing.

@HalcyonSerenade 3 жыл бұрын

"Mr. Kushim, I finished transcribing that tablet." "Excellent." *signs it in approval* "Don't you want to double-check it before signing it, sir?" "Ugh... it's been such a long day. Just put it in storage, it's probably fine." It wasn't fine.

@zeroone171 3 жыл бұрын

*5000 years later* haha, person in the past can't math.

@jorgec98 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be the other way around? Kushim bringing it to Nisa?

@HalcyonSerenade 3 жыл бұрын

@@jorgec98 I actually didn't see Kushim's signature on that particular tablet at all, so I was already taking some comedic liberties with this "the _one_ time he didn't check" scenario ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jorgec98 3 жыл бұрын

@@HalcyonSerenade fair enough. I didn't pay it that much attention myself

@davidjuarez2215 3 жыл бұрын

@Xavier Beauchamp ooh God captain PC

@MrMattie725 3 жыл бұрын

8:22 I'm not doing the maths but I'm going to assume that's a Parker square!

@glenmatthes8839 3 жыл бұрын

I did the maths and can confirm that it's a Parker Square. The small bowls in the upper right are the exponent (2). And going across each row from left to right gives 29, 1, 47, 41, 37, 1, 23, 41, 29 which is, in fact, the Parker Square. (obviously square each number - that's what the exponent of 2 does)

@johnarken1810 3 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this comment!

@glenferris3071 3 жыл бұрын

Love it

@jaimieritchie 3 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought! Put in on a t-shirt!

@edtsch 3 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I thought when I saw it!

@athingwhichexists 3 жыл бұрын

turns out that when your brain is reminding you of that one mistake you made when you're going to sleep, its actually warning you that people thousands of years in the future will be bringing it up

@NatiiixLP 3 жыл бұрын

8:06 had me really puzzled until the very end of that scene. What a brilliant Easter egg!

@tcoren1 3 жыл бұрын

I figured it was gonna be a parker square immediately but I initially looked at the shapes the symbols made rather than their values

@The_Void_Alchemist 3 жыл бұрын

The adventures of kushim and nisa sounds like an amazing sitcom

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@@Ventro_Devientro hell yeah!

@michihaba4435 3 жыл бұрын

Jack Sparrow meme: You are by far the worst ancient acountant I have ever heard of. Kushim: But you have heard of me.

@xmlthegreat 3 жыл бұрын

After Kushim escapes with the entire supply of beer: That's got to be the best Accountant I've ever seen...

@Roozyj 3 жыл бұрын

This meme has never been more accurate xD

@colinharter4094 2 жыл бұрын

He's also technically the best ancient accountant I've ever heard of.

@KjoshWaddellBananasAreGood 9 ай бұрын

@@colinharter4094discounting Nisa here

@leodrews3128 3 жыл бұрын

boys with a time machine: no kushum don't write that down!

@timballam3675 3 жыл бұрын

He said he did it to troll Stand Up Maths!

@alexharbi5546 3 жыл бұрын

"Don't worry Kushim, they'll forget you even made the mistake by next week" 5000 thousand years later:

@squeakybunny2776 3 жыл бұрын

8:22 is that seriously the Parker square... Matt... Never change...

@sebastianjost 3 жыл бұрын

well spotted. wow!

@Wolb 3 жыл бұрын

I want that Parker Square on a t-shirt!

@BrandonDoran00 3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea what the animation was supposed to be, but once the lines crosses it clicked, and I broke out laughing.

@TheAstip 3 жыл бұрын

Scrolled down to find this - my friend is confused why i'm so happy about this

@Yora21 3 жыл бұрын

"Don't try to make the Parker Square a thing!" - Matt Parker, 2016

@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit 3 жыл бұрын

5:50 "You can see each increase is either 3, 5, 6 or 10 times the previous, which probably made sense at the time but did leave the door open for mistakes" Where "mistakes" is another name for "Imperial system".

@peterkelley6344 3 жыл бұрын

MATT PARKER: So what number system would this be???

@ceruchi2084 3 жыл бұрын

Touché. *cries three drams*

@muche6321 3 жыл бұрын

Even one bowl unit is kinda close to a gallon.

@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit 3 жыл бұрын

@@muche6321 COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

@mikewilliams6467 3 жыл бұрын

FREEDOM! /s

@varungupta9020 3 жыл бұрын

In the afterlife: "MY NAME WILL BE FOREVER ETCHED IN HISTORY!" "Yoooo, that's really cool! What did you do?" "...I did wrong math."

@wizewizard1840 2 жыл бұрын

Whoever made the animations / art for this episode made a pretty damn good job. Just wanted to say that.

@ThePizzaguy542 3 жыл бұрын

The animation in this video is gorgeous!

@AF-lt2fr 3 жыл бұрын

For sure, it's so clever and slick.

@hmc5208 3 жыл бұрын

So Matt is definitely an immortal making a video about himself

@colemanhoyt5437 3 жыл бұрын

ice cold 😂😂😂

@pyramear5414 3 жыл бұрын

Shockingly plausible

@HagenvonEitzen 3 жыл бұрын

You mean Kushim is just old Sumeric for "He who parks"?

@Macodra89 3 жыл бұрын

the parker clay tablet?

@exittierone 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I just made the same comment lmao

@danilooliveira6580 3 жыл бұрын

"I want to do something with my life, something to be remembered for" some summerian bureucrat not realizing he was going to be remembered for thousands of years because of a math error on his job.

@curiouscraw3927 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a beautiful video! The animations, the graphics, the sounds, the music, the humour - incredible, I am truly amazed! Even though I must admit finding the first half leading up to the mistake interesting, but a bit lengthy at certain points, I marvel at this edutaining feast!

@uzimonkey 3 жыл бұрын

I bet when he realized he made the mistake he slapped himself in the forehead and said "well, that's a real Parker Square." He would never know why he said that, or what a Parker Square is, but it seemed to make sense at the time.

@Roomsaver 3 жыл бұрын

This reads like an old text-based adventure prompt or a line from The Stanley Parable

@OrangeC7 3 жыл бұрын

The Parker Square is a timeless idea, it permeates the very fabric of space itself. So it's all The Parker Square? Always has been.

@VainerCactus0 3 жыл бұрын

@@Roomsaver Or something the late Sir Terry Pratchett would write.

@clemenssuchan5376 3 жыл бұрын

This line could come straight from a Hitchiker's Guide to Galaxy Book

@Xatzimi 3 жыл бұрын

This definitely sounds like Douglas Adams

@davidguthary8147 3 жыл бұрын

8:21 Don't think we didn't notice that Parker Square!

@joaopaulodiasfranca472 3 жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard when I noticed the Parker Square!

@magnushultgrenhtc 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The decorative square images used in the video bumpers, such as 0:50 to 0:57, are the squares of the Royal Game of Ur, which is in the British Museum.

@afourtrackmind 3 жыл бұрын

this is your best production I've seen from you yet , great work. THank you.

@oscargrouch8256 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe there was a predetermined factor for loss, such as barley being a perishable or mouse food. and the first example shown was not a mistake but just accepted loss and the cost of doing business.

@estergrant6713 2 жыл бұрын

exactly i think the word is “breakage” (learned that from breaking bad lol) that was my initial thought as well

@beeble2003 6 ай бұрын

He basically says that in the video.

@school6268 3 жыл бұрын

"Hey siri, place an order for ten dotless side-bowls of barley" - Kushim probably

@MichaelOnines 3 жыл бұрын

Big or little dotless side-bowls?

@jfan4reva 3 жыл бұрын

But was Siri an individual, or a group of people who spent all their time eves-dropping, so that they would know when their services were needed and got a lot of gossip in between. "We have become so reliant on The Siri that we can no longer function without them." - Nisa - 3000bc

@thenasadude6878 3 жыл бұрын

Siri, Cortana and their competitors would probably come up with some AI nonsense at such a request. "I marked an appointment with Barley on Dotless 10, year of the side bowl"

@JannikGetsPanic 19 күн бұрын

Amazing video with great visuals, very well done 👍

@sparrowruth 3 жыл бұрын

Splendidly done with the animations and remix of Matt's theme. Well done, everyone!

@ad3z10 3 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how the only time base 10 turns up is when counting something organised in sets of 12.

@Yora21 3 жыл бұрын

Greatest stupidly simple inventions of humanity: Shipping containers Luggage with wheels The number 0

@average-osrs-enjoyer 3 жыл бұрын

Probably because the days in the month are base 10 too if they use 30 days/month approx

@alexandr623 3 жыл бұрын

every base is base 10

@Rubrickety 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I would probably look up if someone shouted “Kushim!”.

@11Kralle 3 жыл бұрын

Reallyschk?

@elidrissii 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao. It's a Hebrew joke by the way.

@jean-bastienjoly5962 2 жыл бұрын

@@elidrissii ... what does kushim mean in the joke?

@elidrissii 2 жыл бұрын

@@jean-bastienjoly5962 Kushi means Cushite, the son of Ham who's the son of Noah, and is traditionally associated with all black people. But in modern Hebrew/Israel, the euphemism treadmill made it equivalent to the N word, in terms of acceptability. So in short, kushi is singular n word, while kushim is plural lol.

@jean-bastienjoly5962 2 жыл бұрын

@@elidrissii Okay, i understand the joke. Thanks!

@BrendenJohnFilms 3 жыл бұрын

This was fantastic! The whole tale is awesome, but the graphics and editing is top notch... I can only imagine how much time that took!

@avoirdupois1 3 жыл бұрын

I love the artistry on this video, and the clever dialogue.

@phillee2814 3 жыл бұрын

I imagine that these tablets were running the original version of windows, from which Windows CE, Windows Me and Windows NT were descended - Windows CeMeNT. I'll get my coat.

@thekingoffailure9967 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely despise you, Phil. Take my like.

@IroAppe 3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous.

@Brindlebrother 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine going years without being pestered by an update

@Lambda_Ovine 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... yeah, do get it.

@brandonfrancey5592 3 жыл бұрын

A thousand years in the future, in a class room a teacher briefs their students about Kushim. "And that's how 6000 years ago we recorded our first math mistake. Now on to chapter two where we will talk about a Parker Square."

@Ogaitnas900 3 жыл бұрын

The animation and design (and music and script) on this are wonderful

@22Kyu 3 жыл бұрын

Love the animation and visuals! Super cool 😄

@enzoqueijao 3 жыл бұрын

* In a job interview * Kushim: Hello, my name is Kushim and I'm here for that job offer you posted. Interviewer: Kushim? As in, the one who made that counting mistake on that grain trade? Kushim: It was a one-time thing! Interviewer: No, I think I'll pass. * In the afterlife * Anubis: State your name, mortal. Kushim: My name is Kushim, in my life I was- Anubis: Wait, wait... _that_ Kushim? The one who made a counting mistake on that grain trade? Kushim: It was just a multiplication mistake! I swear! Anubis: I don't know, man... if I let you through, it'd be some real bad rep for us here... * Looking inside a museum from the afterlife * Guide: This right here is a very ancient and important record we found, it details a man named Kushim Kushim: Me? Have they finally appreciated all I've done in my life? Guide: He was a man known for making a counting mistake in a grain trade. Kushim: Oh, god damn it!

@zoromarak8039 3 жыл бұрын

@@SwordQuake2 Their (Sumerian) Gods were more or less very similar to their Egyptian counterparts.

@AliceTheSpider 3 жыл бұрын

@@SwordQuake2 most Proto-European Gods are based on Sumerian Gods including Abarahamic religions

@enzoqueijao 3 жыл бұрын

@@SwordQuake2 I skipped the part where Kushim was disowned by his gods, so he had to go die in Egypt.

@AliceTheSpider 3 жыл бұрын

@wfre devg Majority of European Pagan Gods and myths (especially Egyptian, Greek, Nordic and Celtic) have originated from Anatolian and Mesopotamian Gods where Sumerian God's and myths have affected the most.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын

If I were the ghost of Kushim, I would wear that proudly.

@CircuitrinosOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

5000 years from now, an archeologist is going to dig up the parker square.

@thekingoffailure9967 3 жыл бұрын

Someone will have to cast one in metal or something

@renerpho 3 жыл бұрын

They'll argue whether Parker was a real person, or an institution.

@EarlJohn61 3 жыл бұрын

One possibility is that some of the bowls are reserved for tax!

@Dan_Divebomb 3 жыл бұрын

What a great video! Loved every second of it. Also I'm suggesting that Kushim was side hustling the 'missing' ingredients.

@AndrewTaylorPhD 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely loving the alternate versions of the theme song. (Anyone else briefly confused by "molten barley"?)

@BrianSantero 3 жыл бұрын

I heard it too! I mean, you could kind of argue that it's boiled and liquefied barley, so sort-of molten!

@briansmith8967 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrianSantero I thought he said Malt and Barley. Malt is what you get when it is allowed to sprout then quenched. It converts the starch to sugar for brewing.

@wanderingshade8383 3 жыл бұрын

@@briansmith8967 Yeah, he said Malt and Barley, not Molten barley

@sebastianjost 3 жыл бұрын

@@briansmith8967 Malt and Barley certainly makes a lot more sense. Since I've never heard Malt before, I also understood molten barley though. (I'm not a native englisch speaker) Now I've learned a new word and thanks to beer, I already know what it means xD

@daerdevvyl4314 3 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianjost Next, look up “hops” in relation to beer.

@LucenProject 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but are Kushim Squares a thing?

@daanwilmer 3 жыл бұрын

I think that'd be Kushim Bowls

@Spicarium 3 жыл бұрын

8:20 looks like a Kushim square to me

@peterandersson3812 3 жыл бұрын

@@Spicarium My thought exactly!

@ugojlachapelle 3 жыл бұрын

@@Spicarium It's Parker's Square.

@pahaha70 3 жыл бұрын

@@Spicarium I would wear this shirt

@Viniter 3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful design and animation! Great job, William Marler!

@tectix0 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent animations and cool theme variation!

@icecold1805 3 жыл бұрын

Y'know, as an accountant of a big company who has been struggling a lot working from home and making mistakes, it was nice to hear of someone who made it's own mistakes 5000 years ago, to remember we are all humans after all. Thank you :,)

@horusreloaded6387 7 ай бұрын

I actually suddenly started to like my job more thanks to this video lol. It is a job that writing is created for, woah

@jakobvalinder1772 3 жыл бұрын

Good job putting the beer makers in the description credits: "Beer by Kushim and Nisa"

@TigruArdavi 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid as always. I really like your techno-y signature tune in your videos, but that theme-fitting twist to a 'sumerian' style (or how we would imagine it) was really cool for this one 👍🎵

@ampleyfly 3 жыл бұрын

This video is beautifully well made!

@pleaseenteraname4824 3 жыл бұрын

Kushim has been weirdly silent since this video came out

@General12th 3 жыл бұрын

I bet their PR team is thinking of ways to try to spin this.

@General12th 3 жыл бұрын

@Xavier Beauchamp Thank you.

@screamsinrussian5773 3 жыл бұрын

@@General12th no problem

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын

Leave them alone; they're tired of having to hear the same thing for thousands of years.

@MNalias 3 жыл бұрын

I believe Kushim would be proud to know, that they are an inspiration to us all! To honour them, i shall do some math mistakes at work tomorrow!

@sadkritx6200 3 жыл бұрын

Well this type of math was revolutionary for that time. So unless you make some mistake in advanced mathematics or quantum physics or something the chances are kinda low😅😅

@SuperHyperExtra 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!!!! The QUALITY of this video. The graphics, the music... Congratulations!!

@elguido 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing topic, amazing presentation, amazing animations. Simply amazing

@xenon5066 3 жыл бұрын

"Johnny, you've failed your math test, and people remember your name for thousands of years."

@tncorgi92 3 жыл бұрын

"It goes on your permanent record" was never more true.

@windturbine6796 3 жыл бұрын

8:20 ye olde Parker Square

@Energya01 3 жыл бұрын

I lol'd when I saw the lines appear xD

@vincentpelletier57 3 жыл бұрын

Sumerian square

@simono.899 3 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment the same. But glad to see some men of culture

@Piffsnow 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful designs, very nice music and interesting story. Thanks! :)

@user-hk8yp7cw1v 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they were both drunk when that mistake was made...

@HO-bndk 3 жыл бұрын

The symbol at 6:48 is interpreted by some as a brick building with a chimney; so a granary or brewery maybe. Interestingly the oldest known ad is for beer, in about the same time and place that Kushim was working: "Beer from the city of Ebla - the beer with the heart of a lion."

@VaebnKenh 10 ай бұрын

The original Singha 😂

@veroniqueblum3506 Жыл бұрын

At 11:30 : "5*1/2 = 10" : the perpetuation of mathematical mistakes

@chakra6666 3 жыл бұрын

incredible animations! I love it

@jajssblue 3 жыл бұрын

Whoa! Production quality on this video is impressive. Cool adaptation of the theme!

@majorfallacy5926 3 жыл бұрын

damn, this episode has it's own soundtrack

@redpepper74 3 жыл бұрын

The “surface area of a country” video also had an amazing reinstrumentation!

@Irondragon1945 3 жыл бұрын

It is the same standup maths theme and I love it Wish he would give the opportunity to download it somewhere because it slaps

@IroAppe 3 жыл бұрын

The music creator needs its own KZfaq channel with the soundtracks on it, like many have. (kurzgesagt->Epic Mountain Music , MSFS20->Finishing Move Inc.)