Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Numberphile" channel.

  1. Old joke: If z is the radius and a the height then the volume of a pizza is Pizza
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  2. Yeah, There's a lot of things that have a different perspective historically. If you look at an old typewriter, it often won't have a 1 since you would use lower case L instead. Also, ancient languages didn't have a word for blue. Crazy. (I'm a Brit FWIW)
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  3. Jeez, so much jibber-jabber before they get to the point, during the point and after the point. Jump to 14:50
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  4.  @apeman5291  That's physics and applied math. Pure math is something else entirely.
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  5. You could also use two liquids. This might lead to other possibilities. Like if you shook it up, you might be able to confuse someone as to which was which because of the time to settle out.
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  6. With the O pronounced "Oh", of course. Don't know if that one's mentioned in the video yet
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  7. Should ditch tau and pi and use omicron and phi instead.
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  8. I'm aware of the Sierpinski triangle and pyramid and they're cool but the squares/cubes were the real mind-blowing things to me. It feels like there might be something profound there. I don't know if it has any relation but it kind of puts me in mind of k-space.
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  9. Given that an icosahedron has as many faces as the dodecahedron has vertices and vice versa, I wonder if this has a corollary rule for icosahedrons.
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