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  • Heronian triangles and other fascinating things, featuring Dr James Grime.
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  • @emirspahic2886
    @emirspahic2886 4 роки тому +1342

    Seeing James in the Thumbnail gives me a feeling of Nostalgia of 10 Years ago and the beginnings of NP, ahhh good times...

    • @michaelhird432
      @michaelhird432 4 роки тому +70

      Polynomial vs numberphile - greatest unsolved problem in computing

    • @LowellMorgan
      @LowellMorgan 4 роки тому +40

      The man was genetically engineered to make math videos.

    • @DivyaniSharma93
      @DivyaniSharma93 4 роки тому +21

      Seeing James just made my day! Numberphile is never really Numberphile without James.

    • @XanderFenikkusu
      @XanderFenikkusu 4 роки тому +6

      There is a P vs NP joke hiding somewhere around here...

    • @galgrunfeld9954
      @galgrunfeld9954 4 роки тому +4

      @@LowellMorgan my ex was attracted to him. While we were together. xD

  • @Me0fCourse
    @Me0fCourse 4 роки тому +1101

    Recreating the horrible misshapen triangles on the animation made me burst out laughing. Sometimes, it's the little details that makes a difference.

    • @Dabbleatory
      @Dabbleatory 4 роки тому +41

      He really Parker Squared them.

    • @TheGanamaster
      @TheGanamaster 4 роки тому +9

      HEY, they are the lovely ones, don´t mock them hahahaha

    • @magicalpencil
      @magicalpencil 4 роки тому +17

      I was laughing so hard when the numbers actually appeared next to the janky triangles

    • @laurihei
      @laurihei 4 роки тому +30

      So we got the Parker Square; is this the beginning of the Grime Triangle?
      A metaphor for being so amazed by maths that you wholeheartedly ignore the quality of real-world applications.

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 4 роки тому +8

      Hey! Those are jazz triangles, man!! They're totally cool.
      Fred

  • @avikdas4055
    @avikdas4055 4 роки тому +400

    I'm glad to have James Grime back. Wonderful surprise Numberphile.

  • @BKITU
    @BKITU 4 роки тому +154

    My wife died two weeks ago. She was a huge "Hitchhiker's Guide" fan, and used 42 in some way whenever possible. She would have LOVED this video. That she also had a bit of a crush on Dr. Grime wouldn't have hurt.
    I've purchased the 42 Superhero Triangle shirt, to commemorate my own beloved superhero. Thank you for this.

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 4 роки тому +21

      Sorry for your loss...

    • @whatever946
      @whatever946 4 роки тому +3

      1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41, 43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54

    • @danedickerson
      @danedickerson 2 роки тому +4

      That’s beautiful

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo Рік тому +1

      My condolences.

    • @Triantalex
      @Triantalex 6 місяців тому

      ??

  • @RobotProctor
    @RobotProctor 4 роки тому +214

    5:49 this is a 3-4-5 triangle sized up. It's a right triangle as well!

    • @cockneyse
      @cockneyse 4 роки тому +19

      Yes I saw that, and yes he says it's a cheat... But because it can be made from two RA triangles when actually it's one itself. Not the same thing at all

    • @stevieinselby
      @stevieinselby 4 роки тому +7

      I'm glad someone else has spotted that too, I thought I was going mad!

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx 2 роки тому +1

      he probably drew up something quickly to illustrate his point without noticing it was a poor example

  • @pinicius
    @pinicius 4 роки тому +400

    "Parker Super Triangle" hahahahah
    Yeah, that made me laugh

    • @siddharthagrawal8300
      @siddharthagrawal8300 4 роки тому

      Was gonna say the same lol

    • @xpqr12345
      @xpqr12345 4 роки тому +8

      What we need now is Matt and James cooperating on something, so we can have Parker-Grime [something]s. That could go down in the history books!

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 4 роки тому

      the ch community says hello

    • @E1craZ4life
      @E1craZ4life 4 роки тому +4

      xpqr12345 They were already together in a video about dividing by zero.

    • @xpqr12345
      @xpqr12345 4 роки тому +4

      @@E1craZ4life They have done at least one video on Matt Parker's channel, with one of them proving something (I can't remember what) with geometry, and the other proving the same thing with algebra. But I would enjoy them coming up with something together, reminiscent of the Parker Square, or the Grime Triangles, so it can be called the Parker-Grime [what-ever-it-is]. Or Grime-Parker [thingamajig].

  • @Thror251
    @Thror251 4 роки тому +376

    "These triangles are really interesting - you can see where my printer ran out of ink"

    • @1CO1519
      @1CO1519 4 роки тому +10

      LOL
      True story!

  • @4ltrz555
    @4ltrz555 4 роки тому +188

    James Prime is back!

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 4 роки тому +14

      James Prime > Optimus Prime

    • @Bardigrade
      @Bardigrade 4 роки тому +1

      i think you clicked on the wrong video

    • @4ltrz555
      @4ltrz555 4 роки тому

      @@Bardigrade what?

    • @4ltrz555
      @4ltrz555 4 роки тому

      @@Bardigrade oh, James Prime is another UA-camr

  • @RZBredMaker
    @RZBredMaker 4 роки тому +268

    13:43 This lovely drawn triangles should be called Grime triangles.

    • @supermarc
      @supermarc 4 роки тому +59

      Usually mathematicians get recognized for their accomplishments, but on Numberphile for their mistakes!

    • @ob3vious
      @ob3vious 4 роки тому +20

      @@supermarc *cough* Parker Square *cough*

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 4 роки тому +10

      @@ob3vious not to mention the parker circles

    • @Koisheep
      @Koisheep 4 роки тому +10

      when a numberphile guest poorly draws something we shall call it a Grimes drawing, it's only fair to Matt

    • @Wecoc1
      @Wecoc1 4 роки тому +4

      I was surprised to see there were not shirts and mugs with those

  • @floewqua
    @floewqua 4 роки тому +42

    This guy is a living legend

  • @onebronx
    @onebronx 4 роки тому +58

    Anti-hero triangle: the area is equal to the perimeter written backwards

    • @alexandertownsend3291
      @alexandertownsend3291 4 роки тому +9

      That is a cool idea. What would you call a triagle with area that the reciprocal of the perimeter for example, a=2/5 and p=5/2?

    • @denyraw
      @denyraw 4 роки тому +9

      @@alexandertownsend3291 Villain

    • @juanpgomez1299
      @juanpgomez1299 3 роки тому +8

      We've got ourselves a complete triangle cinematic universe

    • @missphase8127
      @missphase8127 2 роки тому +1

      less cool since it becomes base-10 dependent.

    • @onebronx
      @onebronx 2 роки тому

      @@missphase8127 that's why it is not a true hero :)

  • @forestpepper3621
    @forestpepper3621 4 роки тому +5

    As stated at 12:50 in video, for a given q, there are a finite number of Hero triangles with Area=q*Perimeter. An intuitive way to think about this is to note that as you you scale up the size of an object, without changing its shape, its perimeter grows in linear proportion to the scaling factor, whereas its area grows proportional to the square of the scaling factor. This suggests that, for a fixed value of q, if you increase the required area sufficiently, there will be no Hero triangles satisfying Area=q*Perimeter for that particular value of q.

  • @drewduncan5774
    @drewduncan5774 4 роки тому +17

    "Now I've given you permission to put clickbait thumbnails on this video."
    Numberphile goes self-aware.

  • @laurendoe168
    @laurendoe168 4 роки тому +80

    15, 20, 25 triangle is also a cheat because it is a scaled up 3, 4, 5.

    • @gavin5410
      @gavin5410 4 роки тому +4

      I think scaling up will change the proportions since we're also tracking into account area: perimeter is in 1 dimension and area is in 2 dimensions. If you take a triangle and double all the sides, the perimeter doubles, but the area quadruples.

    • @laurendoe168
      @laurendoe168 4 роки тому +1

      @@gavin5410 yes, the 15, 20, and 25 is not a superhero either (but the 6, 8, 10 is)

    • @jeffreyblack666
      @jeffreyblack666 4 роки тому +5

      @@gavin5410 That is for his "Superhero" triangles.
      For the Hero triangles they just both need to be an integer.
      Scaling up a triangle with an integer length and area by an integer multiple will result in both still being integers.

  • @dear-future-ai
    @dear-future-ai 4 роки тому +11

    Liking for Hero’s formula, holy heck that would’ve made geometry so much easier

  • @hazelgalban3566
    @hazelgalban3566 4 роки тому +9

    Glad that James Grime is back. Nostalgia brought back. BTW love your channel

  • @idjles
    @idjles 4 роки тому +65

    Can we have a t-shirt of Grime’s Lovely Triangles? 13:49

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  4 роки тому +28

      Your wish is my command: bit.ly/Griangle

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 4 роки тому

      Numberphile thank you! 😁

    • @whatever946
      @whatever946 4 роки тому

      NOPE

  • @UltraLuigi2401
    @UltraLuigi2401 4 роки тому +63

    5:51 that is a right triangle

  • @ronzang
    @ronzang 4 роки тому +22

    Welcome back James!

  • @patrickwienhoft7987
    @patrickwienhoft7987 4 роки тому +7

    9:10
    it's quite easy to work out by hand as well since it's the square root of a product and it's an integer.
    32 = 2^5
    27 = 3^3
    which means 32x27x3x2 = 2^6 x 3^4
    and then the square root is simply 2^3 x 3^2 = 8x9 = 72

  • @titleloanman
    @titleloanman 4 роки тому +5

    I love how you troll the presenters so ruthlessly 😂

  • @adityak1231
    @adityak1231 4 роки тому +26

    0:46 James we have got you on the thumbnail!!That is the best clickbait though this one isn't

  • @dustytompkins9234
    @dustytompkins9234 4 роки тому +5

    15-20-25 triangle: why drop a verticle to "cheat"? It's a 3-4-5 scaled up by a factor of 5, no?

  • @carlhedin7279
    @carlhedin7279 4 роки тому +51

    12:47 the left triangle is an impossible triangle. The third side cannot be longer than the sum of the two first.

    • @lukesteeves1291
      @lukesteeves1291 4 роки тому +37

      Guessing that the left side is a 2-digit number with the left digit cut off by mistake.

    • @ar_xiv
      @ar_xiv 4 роки тому +27

      Yeah looks like 75

    • @ngyipin1
      @ngyipin1 4 роки тому +2

      Seems like the second longest side is 72, the 7 got cut off the screen

    • @Bayerwaldler
      @Bayerwaldler 4 роки тому +11

      @@ar_xiv Yeah, that works: Perimeter 162, Area 324, ratio 2

    • @total_dk6517
      @total_dk6517 4 роки тому +10

      If the cut-off number is 72, how come the number shown is 5?

  • @lynk5902
    @lynk5902 4 роки тому +1

    What I find so astounding, is that with the infinity of whole numbers, all the super hero triangles use such small numbers. Yes I realize that the fact that the perimeter will scale linearly while the area scales to the square so one could intuit that they all should be relatively small, but the fact that even the areas and perimeters are still only two digits (at least in base 10) I still find surprising.

    • @hybmnzz2658
      @hybmnzz2658 Рік тому

      Many number theory problems where one side of an equation is linear and the other side is quadratic usually has its tipping point within a dozen. In that sense, base 10 is quite large.
      I guess the cool thing is that equating area and perimeter makes such a small looking equation as 4(x+y+z)=xyz as opposed to 1000(x+y+z)=xyz. Heron's formula is the star here.

  • @JAzzWoods-ik4vv
    @JAzzWoods-ik4vv 4 роки тому +22

    "Putting captain america on one side in the tumbnail"
    *puts James Grime*

  • @VyTran-tk8jq
    @VyTran-tk8jq 4 роки тому +3

    more videos of James Grime please! I really like the way he explains math. He makes it very interesting!

  • @jarbies004
    @jarbies004 4 роки тому +1

    This man's voice us so nice to listen to. And he's SO WHOLESOME. I STAN James

  • @davidgillies620
    @davidgillies620 4 роки тому +1

    I found an intriguing connection between nearly-equilateral Heronian triangles, the Pell numbers, and sequences of consecutive integers whose standard deviation is an integer, but a UA-cam comment is too small to contain the proof.

  • @itioticginger9520
    @itioticginger9520 4 роки тому +4

    13:43 is my new favorite thing Brady has ever done

  • @jamesfilosa6277
    @jamesfilosa6277 4 роки тому +18

    16:01 - oooh the banter..

  • @jacobjoshi4426
    @jacobjoshi4426 4 роки тому +6

    Reminds me of this (though not as amazing)
    A square with all sides of 4, has area 16, and perimiter 16.

    • @quinn7894
      @quinn7894 Рік тому

      A circle of radius 2 has perimeter 2*tau and area 2*tau.

  • @felixcroc
    @felixcroc 4 роки тому +5

    I love the Graham's Number paper framed in the background

  • @molamola8305
    @molamola8305 4 роки тому +4

    That semi-perimeter formula was taught in my school in 8th grade in India.

  • @professorsogol5824
    @professorsogol5824 4 роки тому +2

    Something I would like to see you do some day:
    Take one of these ancient mathematical truths and do the arithmetic using the ancient system of numerals. Some possible ideas: Calculate pi using Roman numbers. (Roman numerals were used for over a thousand years. How does one add, subtract, multiply, divide, take square roots with Roman numbers? ) As you know, the Pythagorean theorem predates Pythagoras. How did those earlier mathematicians find the length of the hypotenuse using the numerals available to them?

  • @mienzillaz
    @mienzillaz 4 роки тому +11

    i love this joke continuation about "well" drawn triangles..

  • @Qermaq
    @Qermaq 4 роки тому +25

    13:38 Grimes triangles, akin to Parker circles? When’s the tshirt coming out?

    • @ykl1277
      @ykl1277 4 роки тому +2

      Qermaq's Shape. It is the Parker Square

  • @jesse8167
    @jesse8167 4 роки тому +75

    *sees James*
    Never clicked on a video so fast

  • @daapf8232
    @daapf8232 4 роки тому +31

    Parker-Squares and Grime-Triangles...
    which polygon will be next?

    • @Tombsar
      @Tombsar 4 роки тому +1

      Following the progression, we need a 2D shape with two sides. Annulus?

    • @daapf8232
      @daapf8232 4 роки тому +2

      @@Tombsar Interesting idea. Now there's only the need for an eponym the annulus will be named after.

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 4 роки тому +1

      A Zvezda Circle (a straight line with "Ptolemy>Pythagoras" graffitied over it)

  • @saikatkarmakar9370
    @saikatkarmakar9370 4 роки тому +1

    Yeah!!!! Brady does read and takes heed of the comments. Nice to see Dr.James.

  • @phillipreay
    @phillipreay 4 роки тому

    Really great topic. I especially enjoyed how you finished on the big isosceles.. had the intuitive feeling there would be near misses to integers but you moved on...but looped back! Now I’m curious about hero rhomboids made of these composite pairs..

  • @saulcaneloalvarez1116
    @saulcaneloalvarez1116 4 роки тому +1

    Yay, Mr.James is back!!!

  • @Bayar-oe7rj
    @Bayar-oe7rj 4 роки тому +2

    It is quite nice to see James again! I rushed when I saw him and 6 hours ago

  • @emeryboehnke4259
    @emeryboehnke4259 4 роки тому +3

    Wow, I love these pretty easy to follow proofs.

  • @woufff_
    @woufff_ 4 роки тому +1

    Happy to see James Grime back, I just love the guy

  • @scienceandmusicmix
    @scienceandmusicmix 4 роки тому

    Was waiting the whole video for mention of a Parker triangle and you did not disappoint!

  • @rosiefay7283
    @rosiefay7283 4 роки тому +7

    12:49 "If you want your area to be a multiple of the perimeter" A nice thing about all triangles (not just Heronian ones) is that A=rs where r is the inradius.

    • @leo17921
      @leo17921 4 роки тому

      wtf is the inradius

    • @rodrigomarinho1807
      @rodrigomarinho1807 4 роки тому

      @@leo17921 the radius of the inner circle. For right triangles you can use the formula b + c - a, let a be the hypotenuse and b, c the catheti

  • @mojann1
    @mojann1 4 роки тому

    Yaaas. Grime is back! Just what I needed today!

  • @neuron05
    @neuron05 4 роки тому +1

    I am so happy Grimes is still here :) I have to find his banans channel again.

  • @SlingerDomb
    @SlingerDomb 4 роки тому +6

    As soon as I saw Dr.James, I click so so fast .

  • @hansgrettle8240
    @hansgrettle8240 4 роки тому +24

    *sees thumbnail*
    24 *was* a superhero

    • @WilfordBrimleyGaming
      @WilfordBrimleyGaming 4 роки тому +5

      I wonder if that was intentional.

    • @nicholasbrown3197
      @nicholasbrown3197 4 роки тому

      Around 0:47 he mentions something about clickbait titles. Totally thought this was a Kobe vid

    • @JuanSanchez-qt1ue
      @JuanSanchez-qt1ue 4 роки тому +1

      There is no coincidence the area of a hero triangle is 24, the laws of math knew what they were doing

    • @nicholasbrown3197
      @nicholasbrown3197 4 роки тому

      Gotta believe it’s a shout-out, I can see them asking James, “Hey can you do a video that includes the number 24?” “Why yes I can”

  • @ItachiUchiha-ns1il
    @ItachiUchiha-ns1il 4 роки тому +7

    HE’S BACK

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo Рік тому +1

    Funnily enough, James’s drawings of the ”P = 70; A = 210” -pair would slot together perfectly, like pieces of a jigsaw 😅.

  • @OlafDoschke
    @OlafDoschke 4 роки тому +5

    15:24 - so now Parker geometry has taken on a life of its own.

  • @anindyabiswas1551
    @anindyabiswas1551 4 роки тому +1

    Sir Grime, I have waited a long time for you! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @kingoffire9373
    @kingoffire9373 4 роки тому +12

    Was feeling down this morning, thought to myself I need to see some numberphile with James.
    Went to youtube and immediately a new video, love you guys you are my comfort channel for the past 5 years xD

  • @storyofsharplyon
    @storyofsharplyon 4 роки тому

    loved this episode, good work

  • @tomharner83
    @tomharner83 4 роки тому +6

    @10:30 how did the "s" become "x+y+z"? If "(s-a) = x", "(s-b) = y", and "(s-c) = z", then "s = x*y*z/4"....
    Why are the terms being added together?

    • @HediMaatoug
      @HediMaatoug 4 роки тому +1

      Same remark, I didnt't get that part!

    • @user-hc4wi9ks9r
      @user-hc4wi9ks9r 4 роки тому +8

      Well, s is the semi-perimeter. Too lazy to re-watch the video, but going backwards:
      x+y+z = (s-a)+(s-b)+(s-c) = 3s-a-b-c = 3s-2s = s

    • @HediMaatoug
      @HediMaatoug 4 роки тому

      @@user-hc4wi9ks9r Thanx!

    • @madacol
      @madacol 4 роки тому +2

      @@user-hc4wi9ks9r Thank you!, I forgot **S** was *half* the perimeter

  • @KedarOthort
    @KedarOthort 3 роки тому +3

    "Parker super triangle" I literally laughed out loud

  • @albinoagellar268
    @albinoagellar268 4 роки тому +8

    James on thumbnail - instant click

  • @XanderFenikkusu
    @XanderFenikkusu 4 роки тому

    My favorite presenter is back. Welcome back, James!

  • @vijaytripathi7675
    @vijaytripathi7675 4 роки тому

    I still don't know but this channel give me an insight of how amazing and elegant mathematics really is ...thank you numberphile... love from India...

  • @tamarpeer261
    @tamarpeer261 4 роки тому +6

    6:04 The 15-20-25 is already a right triangle, tho

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 4 роки тому +1

    Love this guy. I don’t even like math but love this channel.

  • @wompastompa3692
    @wompastompa3692 4 роки тому +6

    5:45
    That's already a Pythagorean triangle. 5 * 3-4-5.

  • @nonpopscience3291
    @nonpopscience3291 4 роки тому

    really great video, loved it, very elegant

  • @murozond8473
    @murozond8473 4 роки тому

    I could watch James Grime talk about numbers all day, bring him back soon pls!

  • @cerwe8861
    @cerwe8861 4 роки тому +3

    YAAAY JAMES!!!!! MORE OF HIM!!!

  • @cineblazer
    @cineblazer 4 роки тому +2

    The 15-20-25 triangle was a right triangle to begin with!

  • @ReyMysterioX
    @ReyMysterioX 3 роки тому

    The framed brown paper about Graham's Number behind James, written and signed by Ron Graham himself, really is something like the holy grail of Numberphile!

  • @clockworkkirlia7475
    @clockworkkirlia7475 4 роки тому

    Yay! Back watching Numberphile, and even more interesting things about triangles! You'll get me to like Pythagoras someday (though I content myself with knowing that Ptolemy is, obviously, superior).

  • @sakkikoyumikishi
    @sakkikoyumikishi 4 роки тому +2

    "The way I was told to work out the area in school requires using Pythagoras occasionally. Let me instead show you this other method, which ALWAYS uses Pythagoras (or, actually, Ptolemy, who Pythagoras' theorem is a special case of) in order to avoid occasionally having to use Pythagoras."
    If that isn't the biggest troll ever then I don't know what is. 😂

  • @8Clips
    @8Clips 4 роки тому

    Oh this is phenomenonal, easy enough to understand for almost anyone and a great introduction to the concept of Mathematical proof for people who haven't studied it.

  • @HassanAhmed-bs5fn
    @HassanAhmed-bs5fn 4 роки тому

    James always does the best videos

  • @kevinmartin7760
    @kevinmartin7760 4 роки тому +1

    At 5:52 the triangle is already a right triangle with pythagorean ratio sides (3:4:5); there is no need to split it up to reveal the "cheat."

  • @Henrix1998
    @Henrix1998 4 роки тому +1

    James Grimes utilising superheros to become the most liked Numberphile person again!

  • @The_Omegaman
    @The_Omegaman 4 роки тому

    James has more math enthusiasm than anyone is enthusiastic about anything. Great vid.

  • @nitfumble
    @nitfumble 4 роки тому +6

    I see James, I press the like button!

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  4 роки тому +4

      I see people liking James, I like their comment!

  • @Domancave
    @Domancave 4 роки тому +1

    This one is for Kobe. He’s a hero. Days after he died a video about 24 comes out. The world just works like that

  • @klaasbil8459
    @klaasbil8459 4 роки тому

    5:57 this is a right-angle triangle (3-4-5 scaled up), so it's not only a cheat by dividing it in two right-angle triangles.

  • @unreal-the-ethan
    @unreal-the-ethan 4 роки тому +31

    oh, i thought this was uploaded years ago. it was actually only uploaded 12 minutes ago.

  • @ccppurcell
    @ccppurcell 4 роки тому

    I scrolled through most of the comments and didn't see anyone point this out: the 5,29,30 triangle can be obtained by taking a 5,5,6 triangle (Heronian) and a 6,25,29 triangle (also Heronian) and gluing them along the edge of length 6. So there should be some "prime" Heronian triangles that cannot be obtained this way...

  • @BrittBerg
    @BrittBerg 4 роки тому +3

    YES JAMES!

  • @okuno54
    @okuno54 4 роки тому +1

    13:41 My compliments to the animator!

  • @3ckitani
    @3ckitani 4 роки тому +7

    13:43 I was going to comment about the other mathematician, but it's James Grime, so...

  • @mustafaemrebasaran7701
    @mustafaemrebasaran7701 4 роки тому

    A James Grime video! Hallelujah!

  • @SpiderGirl42
    @SpiderGirl42 4 роки тому +2

    I want merchandise of "these really valid, lovely drawn triangles" (along with quote underneath lol)

  • @gabor6259
    @gabor6259 4 роки тому +1

    Now do the same with tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, higher dimensional shapes!

  • @radonato
    @radonato 4 роки тому

    Non-Euclidian Superhero triangles? Semi-SuperHero cones? (Surface area is ½ volume?) Lovely to see and hear you, James!

  • @dariusgoh5314
    @dariusgoh5314 4 роки тому +1

    I was thinking about triangles with equal perimeter and area but not necessarily integers, but I realised all triangles can be scaled to such a triangle:
    Any triangle has a perimeter p and an area a. If we scale the triangle (lengths) by p/a, the new area is a(p^2/a^2)=p^2/a and the new perimeter is p(p/a)=p^2/a.

  • @MysterX79
    @MysterX79 4 роки тому +2

    In school if I said something like: "The length is 5", I got asked "What 5? Five eggs? Five apples?" we were always demanded to name the unit. Even if the actual unit was not needed, we were demanded to call it. Lets say "30 length units" or "30 length units to the square" and so on. And honestly this is so much inside me, I was cringing alot in this video. "It has the same perimeter as it has area" and such things simply feel very wrong from the beginning. - Of course I like the video, it was very cool as always! :-)

  • @rjrastapopoulos1595
    @rjrastapopoulos1595 4 роки тому +2

    7:36 It's quite surprising to see that Dr. Grime wasn't taught Hero's Formula at school. We learnt it in class 7, i.e, when we were 12 years old.

    • @arcanics1971
      @arcanics1971 4 роки тому +2

      I was schooled in the UK and I too was never taught Hero's formula. Maybe it's just lacking from the British curriculum.

    • @orsolyafekete7485
      @orsolyafekete7485 4 роки тому

      Yeah, same, that surprised me too

    • @Bayerwaldler
      @Bayerwaldler 4 роки тому

      There is a related, very similar looking, area-formula by Brahmagupta - maybe that is a reason, why this is part of the Indian curriculum.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 4 роки тому

      arcanics1971
      It’s not in the Norwegian curriculum either. It feels related to the sine area rule, though, which I was taught at 16.

    • @orsolyafekete7485
      @orsolyafekete7485 4 роки тому

      @@ragnkja It was taught to us in Hungary. I was in special maths class though, but I'm pretty sure they at least mention it to everyone.

  • @munumun
    @munumun 4 роки тому +2

    15 20 25 is right angled (3-4-5)

  • @LakeNipissing
    @LakeNipissing 4 роки тому +1

    Super Hero triangles with A = P
    24, 30, 36, 42 . . . 60
    Interesting 48 and 54 are M.I.A.

  • @fwiffo
    @fwiffo 4 роки тому

    After watching this video, I had a dream where The Moody Blues were on Sesame Street performing a song about perfect numbers with Cookie Monster. The song included some sort of nonsensical visual proof in high dimensions about their properties.
    It did not sound much like a Moody Blues song, and Cookie Monster sounded like he had a cold, so he was a particularly unconvincing lead when they did "Nights in White Satin."

  • @AAbattery444
    @AAbattery444 4 роки тому +1

    What happens to the area of a triangle as its "base" and "height" remain constant but length of its two other sides approaches infinity? Does the area really remain constant? Or does it increase ever so slightly?

  • @NonTwinBrothers
    @NonTwinBrothers 4 роки тому

    Always enjoying these animations! Haha

  • @jibster5903
    @jibster5903 4 роки тому +2

    Would love to see a generalized proof for other shapes and possibly in higher dimensions

  • @SparkeyGames
    @SparkeyGames 3 роки тому +1

    Notice how all 5 triangles are all factors of 6. 6x4, 6x5, 6x6, 6x7, 6x10. Also notice that the 24 is also in my favourite equation p2=(24n)+1 calculation. (P being prime.)

  • @rosiefay7283
    @rosiefay7283 4 роки тому +1

    14:13 Thank you, Prof. Grime for making a connection between this interesting phenomenon and something I'd already been studying. The latter is triples of integers {x_i, y_i, z_i}, with the same sum and the same product. Following your notation at 10:28, suppose that for various indices i we have Hero triangles {a_i, b_i, c_i} with the same perimeter a_i+b_i+c_i=2s and the same area A. Then define x_i=s-a_i, y_i=s-b_i, z_i=s-c_i. Then x_i+y_i+z_i=s as desired. Moreover, x_i y_i z_i=P=A^2/s. So if you can find triples with the same sum s and the same product P, then you have triangles with the same perimeter 2s and the same area sqrt(sP). And if sP is a square, then your triangles are Heronian.

    • @rosiefay7283
      @rosiefay7283 9 місяців тому

      Here's a further nice feature. Define q=s/2, the quarter-perimeter. Then if we define d_i=a_i-q, e_i=b_i-q and f_i=c_i-q, then all of the (d_i, e_i, f_i) have the same sum q and the same cube-sum q^3-3P.
      Now suppose that you managed to find two such Hero triangles, and in one triangle the shortest side c_2 was q, the quarter-perimeter. Then f_2=0. (I'm using _1 and _2 to index the two triangles.) Now define sets L={d_1, e_1, f_1, -d_2, -e_2} and R the same but with all five signs flipped. Then L and R each have sum 0 and cube-sum 0 (by the previous paragraph). More trivially, L and R agree in square-sum and fourth-power-sum, because a number's even powers remain the same when you flip its sign. So L and R are a solution to the Tarry-Escott problem for powers up to the 4th. For example, triangles (18, 17, 5), (19, 11, 10) with perimeter 40, and 10=40/4 as required. Then L={8, 7, -5, -9, -1} and R={-8, -7, 5, 9, 1}.