Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Numberphile" channel.

  1. "Ruh-MOO-ni-John"? Really?
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  2. It's a shame we don't either. I certainly haven't heard anyone in Russia use it. The problem is Russia (usually) is very particular about the words that it lets into its language. Because it has Slavic roots, words with Latin prefixes (bi, quad, quint, sept, etc.) just don't make much sense. I hope Russia can just invent words with Slavic roots and rejoin the rest of the world.
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  3. Elias Kechter Since you're German,, I can't assume this, but if you speak any Russian, then "naught" should be easy, it resembles ноль in pronunciation.
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  4. I hate to admit this, but when I skimmed over your comment's first line, I thought you typed out "racial idea" and then started talking about numbers. I was so confused...
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  5. The clapping of hands paradox is real in both scenarios, because thanks to the microscope, we know that our hands will never truly clap. Atoms (which is what our hands are made up of) will not meet each other, otherwise they'd explode. In a strange kind of way, physical things ARE mathematical values.
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  6. 2:32 He says, "We can't say 1 divided by 0 equals infinity, we can no more say that than we can say than we can say 1 divided by 0 equals blue." He says this as he writes the equation in a BLUE marker. Blue-ception!
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  7. All this trouble over something that can be solved by keeping a calender hanging on your wall...
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  8. for 9999, you'd be in trouble. For 9364, you'd have to fake your way through it, and say that you chose a three-digit number (635). :)
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