SOLUTION: 10 coin flips in a row! (for 10^5 subscribers)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- WATCH ALL 939 FLIPS:
• Many many flips.
The original ten flip video is here:
• 10 coin flips in a row...
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938
Caroline Caruana
Educational
Klemens Edler
Wessel van persie
Bjørn-Inge Flølo Kleppe
937
Chance Stokes
Deathvader10
Brandon Allaire
Owen Ball
936
EightByte
siili 123
Phalax
Daniel
942
Jaycycle
Oleksiy Bazhenov
Olaf de Graaff
Henry Burkle
Baadrix
SC94khvids
ReCaptcha Heinz
Paul O'Malley
Kenneth Ramberg Fjærestad
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Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
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15:58 - The balloon that sneaked up behind Matt while he was checking the confetti is comedy gold!
I thought he fixed it :P
Yes! I actually started laughing loud when the second balloon came up. So sad. :-D
I loled
Somebody get those balloons a sitcom!
itai alter Classic Parker Square
Matt, you're my hero. Anyone who can stay enthusiastic for an hour and a half of *that* deserves a hearty round of applause. Have you ever considered acting in films? I think you have the requisite patience and consistency of performance.
Your face at 16:08... aw man! I can't stop laughing! And that balloon popping up behind you! :D
You're the best Matt! Incredible videos, just love 'em! :D
I just assumed you cheated by declaring the coin to be heads or tales based on the first flip, but its DASTARDLY to choose whether or not you were going for alternating or the same!
Exactly same thought for me xD
16:09 The saddest man alive.
I can't stop laughing! XD
The comedic timing of those balloons was absolutely spot-on. I just woke and this already made my day :)
That face should be his new profile picture =]
I don't think I've ever seen anyone look more dejected in my life.
That fft was the sound of a Parker square.
+Andrew Kepert Hahaha, exactly!
Thank you for taking the effort to make such great videos!
5:17 you really seem to do know your numbers. :D
+v1ncn7 Thanks! They're fun to do and nice comments make the effort all worth while.
I just have to figure, that as a mathmatician you have way to much free time ;)
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for your really fun videos. I really enjoy thinking about interesting maths puzzles every now and then, even though I'm not smart enough to see through the more complicated stuff ;)
So, thank you!
Just as a side note, there were 4^3 guesses of 10^3 XD
Joseph Cordell
Yeah :) There were 64 (4^3) guesses of 1000 (10^3). Gotta love coincidence (if it is 0_0)
That one ballon that comes up after the 10 heads in row is perfect.
Hey Matt, thanks for the great video, I just wanted to let you know in case you where unaware that from 24:50 on this video the footage doesn't seem to play for me.
The ending troll again!!!! I love it
This video needs to be titled: How to go insane in 939 easy steps.
Tom Burris "go" insane? I think he went insane long ago.
Poor Matt, sucks that the confetti cannon didn't work. I kinda feel bad for laughing the entire time as your soul slowly died
16:05 broke my heart :(
Such a troll ending. Haha. That celebration sequence was the funniest thing I have seen in a while. :)
2:00 book 6 is missing
Around 20 minutes, it should be the < sign, not the > sign, right?
I thought maybe I was crazy for a minute lol
He *flipped* the meaning of the symbols :P
Perfect! The "celebration" couldn't have been scripted to be more hilarious. Well done.
The wisdom of crowds probably goes some way towards explaining how close the average guesses were.
19:59 You said "under a million" and wrote "> 1000000"
That top right one got me on the bowl miss. Just that look of crushing defeat.
Oh god. The bit right after with the malfunctioning cannon. That was schadenfreude to the one millionth power.
My day is complete.
That balloon just slowly rising to the side of you. It's...the comedic timing...
Beautiful.
well, that balloon didnt Parker Square his job xd
16:08 Matt's reaction.... couldn't stop laughing XDXD
Pasting the non-English names into google translate and use the "listen" link in the translate from box (set to detect language) will often give a reasonable approximation of pronunciation
Matt, tell us that it was a rendering mistake and that you will re-upload... If only, just to listen to your amazing closing jingle once again! :P
I haven't laughed out loud at a video in such a long time or even left a comment that long. Great video and reactions! Loved seeing your soul dissolve.
I checked your channel about 10 minutes ago, got terribly depressed when I realised you hadn't been active for two weeks, switched to Mathologer for nine minutes, only to find this.
Neato.
the dissappointment at 16:08 is the funniest part. Amazing persistence over all.
that single balloon was the funniest thing Ive ever seen
unlucky the winner that get the 6th copy...
Why???
It's there in the wide shot, but not the close up. Illuminati confirmed!
When he showed a closeup of the books, there was no book number 6. But in the other shots they were all there.
+D. J. Corkhill In the close-up where it scrolls through the books, 6 is missing.
+Stefan Fisk Møller hehe I noticed that too, was just about to comment :)
23:48 "Now, so if Y-" *spinningly smooth jazz*
it's been so long, I've forgotten what I guessed
I had to go back and expand the whole comment history out and ctrl+f for mine, hoping that it would be in the subset of comments that youtube loads before it says that's all you get.
I really hate how YT changed it so you can't look at the entire comment history easily anymore, it's all obscured and difficult.
Anyway, my guess was in the 800's so... no dice
Well you can actually try to find your old comments on Google Plus. It actually stores them there.
That's where they were moved? Should've guessed... I never looked in to G+, not a big fan of most of the changes post Google acquisition
whats a Google Plus?
Azivegu I don't know... But it sends me notifications all the time when I'm on UA-cam...
You're all wrong. It obviously takes 10 flips to get 10 heads in a row...
Love the bloopers, Matt! So much more candid!
It's weird seeing his persona slip for a moment.
Come to think of it he is pretty amazing at keeping that banter up for over an hour.
This channel has such a great community around it. Everyone's so nice in the comments
If you made 11 heads in a row, you've actually made 10 heads in a row TWICE, simultaneously one flip apart.
Since Matt counted a lot of the misflips (the coin landing outside of the bowl) the actual number of flips for HTHTHTHTHT was *907*.
However, if you take the entire string of 908 flips and translate it into a legit race (where you stop at T, HH, HTT, HTHH, ...and so on) the final run would be HTHTHTHTT, so the race would still be on... maybe it _would_ end on 939 flips.
Okay, you getting pissed at the confetti cannon was hilarious. A classic Parker Square execution that was.
Hi Matt! I have a question... didn't you ever mix up the head/tails naming in a run? If whatever color you get on the first throw will be "heads", didn't you ever get confused and call that same color "tails" ? That's a crazy amount of concentration
+DC430 I think once I lost track? But for the most-part I'm used to talking about one thing while concentrating on something else!
The empty stare at 16:54 is hilarious :D
This channel is very thorough
I would've argued the confirmation bias, so I'm glad you did it for me Matt ;) Still very interesting!
*Cringe* at 20:01 he puts the greater than symbol instead of less than twice! And here I thought he knew maths😉
Yep, came here to post this. Ouch.
You could say he removed all guesses which were greater than 1000000.
+Criangulien Greater than or equal to, yes, but that's not what he said, was it?
+TheNwd44 Ah Parker Square will never go away will it? ;)
6:10
Matt : 10 As
Me : AAAAAAAAAA
The way you snap into each take just blows my mind.
Pretty sure 1023 is a reference to the 10^23 campaign.
2:03
1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10
WHERES THE 6!?
Thank you so much Matt! I can't wait to show off my official Parker signed bookmark to all my geek friends, and when I get old I will tell my grandchildren how I.. ah I'm getting carried away now :')
So how may I contact you so I could get a piece of that balloon, please? :3
haha the baloons taking off while matt gets annoyed by the cannon would have been awesome in the original vid ;)
That confetti canon Parker squared your entire finale...
that party cannon was as effective as a wet squib
Such a Parker confetti canon...
I spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out what happened to my internet, my computer, my graphics card, you name it. Just as the screen turned black, my desktop window manager crashed, causing my screen to flicker and whatnot. SO I was like "How did that crash break UA-cam ON A DIFFERENT COMPUTER" before I finally realized. *sigh*
You definitely should have used the 10 yellows in a row footage with the comedy-ending :) Imho it was a hilarious.
Something is wrong with me when I enjoy this video. And people said that math can't be fun...or drive people to the brink of madness.
Can you do this like every Friday or Saturday or something please? Since I wasn't there in time and want to try it out.
Did anyone else watch right till the end?
I fast-forwarded :)
of course I did
had to... :P
Yes.. =C .. Had to
I tried, but video cuts out at the dice thing at 23:49 and black/mute from there on. What I did watch though was great, how mutch patience Matt has!
I'm not a math freak by any means but I do like to learn something new each day, could be something useable or I could learn something simple. Just learn something! In short. Learned something simple with this video so I'll give you a sub!
Damn, I also wrote a Python simulation and I got so damn close. My original comment:
"[...]Using this tool, I performed 100'000 simulations for a sequence of length 10 (it took a while).
I was going to say the median (943), but I like to think you were lucky so I'll say the 25th percentile, 401."
Always trust the median guys
Typically the solution to problematic outliers in data is to use the median instead of the mean. I wonder what the median was...
3 Median = Mode + 2 Mean
967.6 (
Or you can call all values outside a certain range outliers, by using the IQR (interquartile range that's Q3-Q1) to determine how spread the middle 50% of values that surround the median are, then excluding any values that are 1.5*IQR above Q3 and 1.5*IQR below Q1
TL;DR
outliers < Q1-1.5*IQR
16:07 broke me heart ='{
The gone wrong shoot was incredibly hilarious, you should have used that!
+palmomki And now I have!
Crowds guessing better than individuals is a thing. a real thing. a real creepy thing. like, guess how many jelly beans are in this jar, no one guesses exactly, but the average guess is spot on. no idea how that works. but it obviously does.
So you've covered the mode and the mean (well, several means), what about the median? :)
My guess was calculated to pull the average of the real guesses back to 939. Since I, of course, knew the answer all along.
20:01 not >1000000 but
Well at least my answer of what Matt was doing was correct. Notes in my python program I wrote that I posted in my original comment:
#Keep making attempts until the coin either
#flips the same 10 times in a row or alternates
#then record the start of the video saying we
#were aiming for that all along >:)
re:wisdom of the crowd; isn't the usual method to remove a fixed percentage of guesses from both extremes? Would be really interesting to see the average with the top and bottom 10% cut off. (or, given the size of the data set, I guess we could even just cut off 5% each).
I see what you did there!!! I watched this video due to the cliff hanger from the video that was this cliff hanger. Its like cliff hanger inception
The crowd sure is wise!
Where's the end of the video?
where was the sixth book in the close up shot, my continuity ruined😨
Confetti cannon didn't go off, but he almost did
2^11 = 2048 ~ 2046. This would also account for it.
Wait according to his explanation around 7 min, this is how to get heads or "A" ten times in a row, not how many it takes to get the same side in a row. He may have ended sooner had he accepted the possibility of getting tails, and only quit the runs when he got a different side than the first flip.
When you do the closeup of the numbers on the books at 2:04, there's no book #6.
I laughed so hard I was in tears. Thank you again for a great video.
I would love a splitscreen with 9 and 25 Matts all throwing coins and babbeling at the same time! Rlly enjoyed the 2x2 but it needs to be scaled up! =)
I feel cheated, and I didn't even participate. Thank you for the effort
I also tested the "wisdom of the crowd" method. As the median is supposedly outlier-proof, I downloaded the data and found it as 589. Reasonably close to 510, maybe people knew you weren't doing all 10 ;)
+Pashizzle500 The crowd may be wiser than I gave them credit!
what is the average when you exclude all 1 digit and >4digit numbers??
also i guessed 3 and video trickery.
I really enjoyed this video. What are the chances on that?
That was actually hilarious!!!
See, thats why you need to get Pinky Pie for all your party needs
should have guessed grahams' number (or A(G64,G64)) for that sweet average
Wow I loved the dice puzzle part! what are the odds (-;
you said 10.000 is a realistic upper boundary for a guess, but in that case, you should calculate the chance of 10.000 actually happening and calculate the lower boundary given that probability and exterminate all the ones below that boundary too, right?
such an AMAZING work!!
At around 2:00, book number 6 is missing from the pile, and magically reappears after the zooming out xD
the things you do for us
You should calculate the odds of 10 heads in a row and a broken party tube
What a Parker square of a celebration. :p
You bought the Parker Square of confetti cannons.
The "correct" guess wouldn't be the expected number of flips, but the most likely number of flips. What is the most likely number of flips?
Watching you turn off the UA-cam mode when the run failed was just amazing :p
I thought that I wanted to know what the average of all the numbers under 10,000 because I thought that it was the most fair number, and so I thought it was so cool!!!
What happens at 23:49?
The video turns black.
I can bet Mat is sitting there now counting all the comments, in which people complained about this video cutting off short. And shortly after starting the count he starts to regret it, because this is a thing you simply can't count by using a script.
+Sleszak I try to keep the parts of my life I cannot automate with a script to an absolute minimum.
collectively as humans our average guesses for things are pretty accurate
Chance "Strokes" come on now Matt.
Only a stand up comedian used to NOT getting the laughs could sustain being upbeat so long!
Stokes, not Strokes! 😂😂😂
this is fanflippingtastic.. awesome