Here is camman18's YouTube short about the mystery: https://youtube.com/shorts/WvyVFSOD-uM?si=yeOzmMj6BD0a0E3cHuge thanks to Natalie for sending it to me!This is the bug report Oliver found: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-119369?focusedId=804740Explore floating point errors yourself using the IEEE-754 Floating Point Converter: https://www.h-schm…

Please note down the new value of pi: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223176If you'd like to sign up to hear about future ridiculous maths projects that require volunteers: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6Play list of all my previous calculati…

Check out Jane Street's excellent Academy of Math and Programming (AMP). https://bit.ly/sum-ampHere are Andrew Taylors slides on "Rotation with three shears". I saw him give this talk at the MathsJam Gathering 2023. The proof is on page 4. https://github.andrewt.net/shears/This is a nice introduction to the concept: https://cohost.org/tomforsyth/po…

Do check out my video with Adam Savage over on Tested: https://youtu.be/s_F4uD8wAs0Yes, I'm back in NYC for An Evening of Unnecessary Detail on Sunday April 14. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/matt-parker-an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-847453715877?aff=oddtdtcreatorPre-order my new book! https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/lov…

Pre-order Love Triangle on Maths Gear now and get a signed copy! Also, a special book cover if you're fast enough. https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signedUK edition out 20 June, pre-order options: https://bit.ly/UKLoveTriangleUSA edition out 20 August, pre-order options: https://bit.ly/3wCTesRHere are the fantastic GeoG…

See you all in Wemding, Germany in 2033 for the next installation of this inevitable maths mistake.Thanks to everyone involved with Zeitpyramide who were hugely welcoming and accomodating. Official Zeitpyramyde website: http://www.zeitpyramide.de/Check out Ayliean MacDonald's excellent work on TikTok and indeed YouTube:https://www.tiktok.com/@aylie…

Support "Doing Things the Hard Way Matt" on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/standupmathsFull video of Doing Things the Hard Way Matt doing things the hard way is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/watch-full-doing-98412935OEIS sequence A010527 "Decimal expansion of sqrt(3)/2"https://oeis.org/A010527Do support the OEIS! https://oeisf.org/don…

Check out AMP or suggest it to someone who could benefit. And here is the puzzle: https://bit.ly/sum-ampThanks to Jane Street for sponsoring this video! https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/I'll be doing An Evening of Unnecessary Detail at the Bristol Beacon, UK on Tuesday 12 March 2024. Come and celebrate Almost Pi Day with me! And celebrat…

Watch this space for any updates on if the rainforest moths we found were new to science!Thanks to Rainforest Expeditions who organised our trip. https://www.rainforestexpeditions.com/Full disclosure: we paid for our flights to Peru but Rainforest Expeditions provided our visit into the rainforest for free. We visited the Tambopata Research Center …

Yes, I'm doing a show in LA on Sunday January 7. It's a bit last-minute. Come and say hi! https://www.flapperscomedy.com/shows/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail/72865/Huge thanks to Sammie for sharing her equations. Check out her work at Northumbria University: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/sammie-buzzard/"A Mathematical Model o…

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You absolutely must check out the companion Climate Town video: https://youtu.be/fDx6no-7HZEHuge thanks to Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan, Matt Nelson and the whole Climate Town team. We had an unreasonable amount of fun planning and filming these videos. You should subscribe to their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown What, you already …

Here is the value of "Vegas Pi":3.1415926535897932384617153643678925903600116892589235420199561121968230301952035301852Read all about the Sphere and science:https://www.thespherevegas.com/scienceThanks to Linus Boman for the help! Check out their excellent videos: https://www.youtube.com/@LinusBomanHere is Linus's post on Mastodon with type nerds c…

Check out Jane Street paid internships https://www.janestreet.com/internships (or pass on to someone you think would benefit from it).Huge thanks to Laura Taalman for joining me for a day of walking and math. You can see all things Taalman on her website including excellent 3D print files: https://mathgrrl.com/Next "An evening of Unnecessary Detail…

The Einstein Hat Competition! https://momath.org/hatcontest/Thanks to Jane Street for supporting this video.https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/Stan Wagon has written an article about all of the maths involved in the bridge: https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2917199Designed by Thomas Randall-Page. https://www.thomasrandallpage.com/…

The Big Feastival is this weekend! https://thebigfeastival.com/ (Or if you are watching this in the future: some weekend in your subsequent August.) I'm there most years, come and say hi! In 2023 we're making a giant sun dial.Blur are on tour again and have a new album out! I've seen the show and listened to the album so can recommend both personal…

An exploration of distance, speed, acceleration and other members of the distance-derivatives family. With no need for any flashy gimmicks.Watch the Rapid Motion Through Space Documentary. https://youtu.be/NYDdHSXRQroHuge thanks to Cas Visser, Dom Wilson, Jan Wolf and everyone else who had a look at my giant csv of data and tried to help wrangle it…

Thanks to Jane Street for supporting this video.https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/Curved-Crease Sculptures by Erik Demaine and Martin Demainehttps://erikdemaine.org/curved/The original paper: "A Complete List of All Convex Polyhedra Made by Gluing Regular Pentagons" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01753Get your hexagon equivalent here: https:/…

Bonus footage of me talking about the Parkerscope over here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-data-chat-84165442Thanks to Greg Foot for helping out with all of the filming. Check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GregFootPretty sure Greg was the only YouTuber who was with me at the Eclipse.Lucie's telescope was the "Coronal …

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Thanks to Jane Street for supporting this video. Check out their open roles, programs and events: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/Here is the original "Is there an equation for a triangle?" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K-Jx914NcQ (I'm taking suggestions for what Part III should be named. Comment below.)And thanks to everyone …

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Do check out Bobby's video. It's a work of art. But be warned: it contains adult themes and some strong language. So if you watch my videos with young people, maybe watch Bobby's when they're not around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHi479xN_poFirst person to find me IN A PUBLIC SPACE can have the pin-up board (without the pins or board). I've p…

Happy Pi Day: 14 March 2023. (Yes, the video goes out a few days early. So teachers have time to plan their Pi Day activities.)Huge thanks to Eric and the whole team for letting us in to skid some cars and calculate pi.It was an active and working site and they did a great job making time, staff and cars available for us.If you want to learn more a…

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Check out Overleaf: the easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor! https://bit.ly/overleaf_sumRungeBot on both twitter (for now!) and mastodon.https://twitter.com/rungebothttps://mathstodon.xyz/@RungeBotYes, I'm on mastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@standupmathsHuge thanks to Matthew Scroggs for letting me turn his MathsJam talk into a video a…

Details about the Jane Street Academy of Math and Programming: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/programs-and-events/amp/ Apply by 15 March for full-scholarship attendance. See you there!NASA made a great "Webb’s Diffraction Spikes" infographic.https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7AFK61GAMSHKSSNThe differences betwe…

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Need a VPN for $2.11/month? I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/standupmathsHuge thanks to Zoe Walker and all of the crew on Hurtigruten's expedition cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen.Book a trip here: https://standupmaths.com/antarcticaSee Zoe's website here: https://www.zoewalker.ca/researcherHere is my whale on Happy Whale: https://happywhal…

YES, the improvement should be 40,832,277,770%, not what I say in the video. The "408,322,778" multiple was correct and I did the percentage the wrong way. There will not be a follow-up video to correct that.The improvement was to my code from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-AfhLQfb6wThis is episode 038 of the A Problem Squared podcas…

If you, or someone you know, would like a paid internship in New York, London or Hong Kong: check out Jane Street. https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/internshipsNathaniel Johnston's post on The Binary “Look-and-Say” Sequence:http://www.njohnston.ca/2010/11/the-binary-look-and-say-sequence/Huge thanks to my mate Jonny Berliner for recording…