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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

A lot of tweets about #PalindromeDay miss that 02 February 2020 is a palindrome in USA, UK and ISO formats; it is a palindrome day of the year (33) and there are a palindrome of days left in the year (333). This will never happen again. More details here:

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4 years

When I first heard that cases were missing I thought “can’t be an Excel problem, the rows run out at 1,048,576 which is bigger than even total cases”. I never thought they’d have a case per COLUMN. Unbelievable. And yes: Excel columns end at 16,384 aka “XFD”.

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4 years

In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.

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Matt Parker

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6 years

This made me laugh more than it should have.

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@standupmaths

4 years

And coming in at number #1 on The Sorts of News Headlines We Need Right Now… NASA FIXES MARS LANDER BY TELLING IT TO HIT ITSELF WITH A SHOVEL

NASA Fixes Mars Lander By Telling It to Hit Itself With a Shovel

In a last-resort move to free up the InSight Mars lander's digging probe, NASA engineers programmed the lander to thwack itself with a shovel.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

6 ÷ 2(1+2) is going viral again. And the correct answer from a mathematician is “you need to write this better so it’s not ambiguous”. PEMDAS/BODMAS is not some law of maths. ‘Order of operations’ are a convention to make writing clear. (PS The solution is always MORE BRACKETS.)

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

5 years

Top notch effort, everyone.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Ironically, the word "minimum" is the maximum amount of fun to type on a qwerty keyboard. Fight me.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Love it. This is kind of absolute units I want to see in /r/memes

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Matt Parker

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3 years

I still grin every time I do this in python.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

A quick guide on which version of this meme to use.

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Matt Parker

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2 years

I cannot believe this is a real question in a legitimate UK Government survey. Even ignoring the typos etc: this would fail KS3 statistics because even 12 year olds know those are some leading responses.

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Matt Parker

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4 years

@tweetsauce Ok everyone, I’ve just found someone named Hannah (palindrome) who is turning 22 (palindrome) on 02/02/2020 (palindromapalooza). We can all go home now.

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Matt Parker

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5 years

I feel personally attacked.

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Matt Parker

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5 years

A bargain at £29512665430652752148753480226197736314359272517043832886063884637676943433478020332709411004889.00

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

This is excellent. When the maths hits your eye like a big pizza π.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Mmm… perfect rectangle month. This year February is an exact rectangle because it starts on a Monday and it’s not a leap year. But it’s not as rare as I see people claiming (every 200 years apparently‽), it’s about every 10 years. The previous was 2010 and the next is 2027.

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Matt Parker

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3 years

When we started @MathsGear this is exactly the moment we were dreaming of:

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Matt Parker

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4 years

Fracula.

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Matt Parker

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4 years

I’m seeing a few of the “at 8:20pm and 20 seconds tonight it’ll be 20:20:20 2020” memes being passed around. Which is of course true for every night this year. My advice is to enjoy them all! Or wait until 2:02am and 20.2 seconds on 2 Feb for: 02:02:20.20 02/02/2020

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

I’m awarding @sethmeyers “math joke of the month”. (Which is sadly only 92.3% of the award it was a year ago.)

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

#14 ON TRENDING

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

Steamed Primes. (Every frame is a 1,536-digit prime number.)

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Also the answer is 1.

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Matt Parker

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3 years

I feel like Google is over-promising what my video can realistically deliver.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

I’ve been married to @Dr_Lucie for the better part of a decade (plus many years prior) and I only just discovered today that when programming: for a loop-in-a-loop after “i” I use “j” but she uses “ii”. Geniius. Marriage really is a never-ending journey of discovery.

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Matt Parker

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6 years

I just spent a chunk of my life making a "foot-donut" in photoshop. No regrets.

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Matt Parker

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9 months

No. Bad google docs.

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Matt Parker

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3 years

Stop the clock! It took 56 days of dog ownership for some homework to be eaten. #Skylabthedog

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

It’s 22/7. Happy π Approximation Day everyone!

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Matt Parker

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2 years

In 2,222,222 seconds it will be Twos-Day Tuesday on 22/2/22. The countdown has begun! #2excited

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Matt Parker

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1 year

It's like Google Docs doesn't even get me.

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Matt Parker

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1 year

I agree everyone should have to do maths until 81.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

5 years

Has science gone too far‽ A möbius loop made from an odd number of cogs. Which means all the directions mesh!

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Matt Parker

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2 years

2022 is a multiple of 6 and its digits add to 6. It's not fancy but I like it. Previous two such years were 1500 and 2004; next two will be 2040 and 2112.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

I’m back! That was a personal record 933 consecutive days not in Australia.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

1 year

It’s happening! On the horizon. Look. It’s Y2K38 approaching. via:

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

So this is happening.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

7 years

I just signed-off an email with "Yours coscerely × tancerely". I fear I may have become a parody of myself.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

7 years

"Two-thousand and seventeen" does not share any letters with "prickly fig". This will not happen again until 7000.

17 Number Facts about 2017 in 2:17

Here are all the facts and references!FACT 01: It’s a prime numberLast: 2011, Next: 2027https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/1000.txtFACT 02: Has a digit sum 1...

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

7 years

Please do not teach the birds about polygons.

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Matt Parker

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3 years

It is my theory that since 1966 the England national football team have only reached the final of the World Cup or Euros when the game ball contains a rectangle. You can't argue with a 100% correlation!

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Happy π Approximation Day everyone! In the spirit of the occasion: remember to celebrate slightly more than you should. #piday

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

This is amazing. Please may it become a real thing.

Brent Waller

@BrentOnInternet

3 years

My latest LEGO Ideas project, a Clockwork Solar System, with 99.8% accurate relative orbital timings. A collaboration with Chris Orchard. #legoideas #LEGO Every vote on LEGO Ideas helps it potentially being made into a real LEGO set.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Tell me how over the tell me without telling me format you are without telling me how over the tell me without telling me format you are.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

It’s 222 seconds until 22:22:22 22/2/22 GMT!

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

6 years

A new biggest-yet prime number has been discovered! Another Mersenne Prime surprisingly close to the previous one. 2^ 77,232,917 -1 (vs 2^74,207,281 -1) 23,249,425 digits (vs 22,338,618 digits)

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Matt Parker

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6 years

Sad that Stephen Hawking has died. But remember that he held a party for time travellers on the 28 June 2009 if any people of the future want to meet him. 12:00 UT 52° 12 21" N, 0° 7 4.7" E.

Stephen Hawking - Time Traveller's Party

Stephen Hawking hosts a party for future time travelers.Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking - Time TravelThis video belongs to Discovery Communications an...

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Happy #PiDay 2020 everyone! In 1666 Cambridge Uni closed because of an infectious disease and so Isaac Newton went home to Woolsthorpe Manor and calculated π by hand. 354 years later: I try exactly the same thing. Who will win? #ParkerVsNewton

Calculating π by hand the Isaac Newton way: Pi Day 2020

So it turns out that this year π = 3.141591678589793935225Thanks to Ben Sparks, Deanna Judd, Max Hughes and Zoe Griffiths!Huge thanks to the National Trust f...

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Matt Parker

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2 years

If you're enjoying 2222, brace yourself for 22222.

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Matt Parker

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5 years

I refuse to believe this is real.

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Matt Parker

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4 years

We did it! We have found more false-π Casio calculations! Including the amazing 6^11/1000. People in the YouTube comments (including Smathlax and Felix Mandelbart) seem to have cracked the algorithm Casio calculators use to check for π. cc: @Sheena2907

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Matt Parker

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3 years

I am loving this. The last factorial is 170! “Did you know? The number 170 is the highest possible number you can calculate a factorial for? Any higher than 170, and the mathematical answer is infinity.” -

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

8 years

Sure, 2016 is not divisible by 5 like 2015, but it is divisible by EVERY OTHER SINGLE-DIGIT NUMBER. 4th time ever. Max possible until 2520.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

If anyone has been waiting for a hilarious moment to unsubscribe: now is your big moment.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

There has been a lot of discussion about using Benford’s Law to detect shenanigans in the 2020 USA election. I doubled-checked some of the data and can confirm that while super interesting, there is no sign of foul play.

Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?

My book is cheap at Waterstones and signed at Maths Gear:https://www.waterstones.com/book/humble-pi/matt-parker/9780141989143https://mathsgear.co.uk/products...

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Sad to hear of the passing of mathematician John Conway. He’d like to remembered for any of his accomplishments except the Game of Life. He once said he checked the index of every book and if it listed the Game of Life he would refuse to read it. From the @makeanddo4D index:

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

The congratulations are flooding in.

Steve Mould

@MouldS

2 years

Finally ( @standupmaths )

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Matt Parker

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2 years

We just had 2:22 on 22/2/22 and Twos-Day Tuesday is already everything I hoped it would be. #2excited

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

YOU CAN’T STOP THE COUNT. #Fracula

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

I think both this video, and the original, make some great points.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Could not have happened to a nicer π.

Grant Sanderson

@3blue1brown

4 years

π

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

9 years

The size of Pluto vs Australia. At least it would provide some shade! [By David Murray via @NathanLee .] http://t.co/sR75fhMn2v

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

7 years

#TwitterOnlyAllowsHashtagsToBeOneHundredCharactersLongSoWhatsYourFavoriteThirtyNineDigitNumberMineIs 115132219018763992565095597973971522401

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

TWENTY-TWO HOURS UNTIL TWOS-DAY TUESDAY.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

5 years

IT’S IN SHOPS.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

6 years

How to teach maths.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Ok, that was to wind people up. But I think the reason many people (who write equations regularly) get 1 is because the convention of ‘adjacent means multiply’ outranks “×”. Just like a fraction outranks “÷”. Change it to 6/2 × (1+2) and now it’s 9. (By unofficial convention.)

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Matt Parker

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4 years

The BBC are reporting that the data was in Excel but was indeed in rows (not columns, phew). HOWEVER, Public Health England used .xls format and not .xlsx which means they were limited to the pre-Excel-2007 limit of 65,536 (aka 2^16). Which is still breathtaking incompetence.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

1 year

We have 256km until our next turn. Or 0km, I guess. Depending on the number of bits.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

I would find a security lock on a £12 item ridiculous at the best of times, let alone when I’m in a bit of a rush. Thankfully there was a pretty easy workaround.

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Matt Parker

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3 years

YouTube analytics also getting a bit passive aggressive over my second channel's normal view numbers.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Ironically, when I see this I’m much more likely to open the marketing email.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

‘Tis the season. #snowfake

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

5 years

Amazing. @HumblePi_0x03c0 is UK #1 best seller. Thanks to the relentlessly supportive @Dr_Lucie , the many many people who helped with the book and huge thanks to @MichelleObama for not selling 341 more copies.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

It lives again! Xmas tree.0 Video out soon.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

5 years

2019 = 0³ + 1⁸ + 2⁷ − 3⁹ + 4⁶ + 5⁴ + 6² + 7⁵ + 8¹ + 9⁰ (All the digits 0 to 9 raised to the power of all the digits 0 to 9.) 2019 facts in 2 mins 19 seconds

2019 facts in 2 mins 19 seconds

Huge thanks to Inder Taneja for crunching the numbers. I asked for a few number facts: they produced a whole paper.Inder's work on their site: https://inderj...

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

6 years

I’ve been waiting a long time to see how this will roll over. My bet is “NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSID 00”.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

4 years

Really excited that YouTube gave me the first 90 seconds of this year's Rewind to laboriously calculate ‘e’ by hand.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Amazing. @RachelTrue is locked out of iCloud because it’s refusing to set lastName to be the boolean ‘true’. And it’s still not fixed! What kind of hokey code are @apple @applesupport running?

Rachel True

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Anyone else getting this error from Apple iCloud ? In past or now? I’m 6 months deep freeze & looking for any help. I rem dead coding languages like kobalt.. & this seems like an Apple coding issue — not hardware

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Matt Parker

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2 years

Today I saw a penguin fall off an iceberg. This may be the best day of my life.

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@standupmaths

2 years

Only 22 days until the extravaganza that shall be Twos-Day Tuesday on 22222. Get ready! #2excited

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

1 year

Merry christmas to everyone and greetings from the southern hemisphere! (Yes, everyone in my family got matching rashies (a kind of sun-projection shirt worn while swimming) for the traditional christmas swim.)

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@standupmaths

5 years

Normally we celebrate every 500 day anniversary but @Dr_Lucie and I thought we should mark exact 5 years by recreating a photo.

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Matt Parker

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10 months

Maybe it’s a beehive?

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

Come on. So close to 2^20 = 1,048,576.

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Matt Parker

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3 years

I feel like this is an under-the-radar burn from @youtube .

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

5 years

I should rent an office in this building so all my post can be addressed: For Matthew Parker Four Matthew Parker

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

This is your annual reminder that yes: heart attacks go up 24% on the Monday after the clocks go forward (US data) but they are lower the rest of the week. The week-long average remains unchanged! Daylight saving time accelerates heart attacks but doesn’t cause a net increase.

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3 years

The switch to daylight savings time increases your risk of a heart attack (by up to 24% on the Monday after the time change) but reduces crime by 7%.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

Today is the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century! To celebrate here is a 21 by 21 magic square which has a magic total of 21. (thanks to @IJTANEJA : )

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

10 months

I have my 27 tickets ready to go for a guaranteed win on tonight’s UK lottery! Maths! (PS I promise on 1.5% chance I make a net profit I will spend the money making maths videos.)

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Matt Parker

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4 years

Happy 2² × 5 × 101 everyone!

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Matt Parker

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5 years

Check out these two squares!

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

6 years

Tonight I received a tip-off that an ATM in London was dispensing £10 notes with sequential serial numbers. RESULT.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

2 years

I told my Kickstarter backers I would display their name on the Arcade I use in the Humble Pi show. Then I gave them a free-entry text box to choose their display name. And have several of them tried creative ways to break things? YOU BET THEY HAVE.

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

3 years

ME: Build, code and film a 500-LED xmas tree. YOUTUBE: "Not bad, 375k views." ME: Forty-five minutes of unedited footage of me running untested viewer code on the same tree, uploaded to my second channel. YOUTUBE: "One million views for you!"

I run untested, viewer-submitted code on my 500-LED christmas tree.

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlpIojusBEI think that went well! Head over to github to see some of the code involved.https://github.com/st...

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Matt Parker

@standupmaths

11 months

I believe the Dodecahedron is the only Platonic Solid and I DEMAND TO BE DEBATED.

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Matt Parker

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4 years

In Excel on a Mac hit the command-⌘ key with 'right arrow' and you'll jump to the last column (I think Windows is Ctrl+Right). Columns count up alphabetically and you can check that "XFD" is 'Excel base-26' for 16,384 which is 2^14. Excel stores column numbers as 14-bit binary.