Monopoly should come with a free pair of radioactive metals.
@ukkomies100
6 жыл бұрын
Mu'izz Siddique i wouldnt be surprised if that whould have been the case in the 50s
@jimannothe
2 жыл бұрын
Duungeons and dragons most definitely
@achtsekundenfurz7876
2 жыл бұрын
Mandatory "roll 3d6 cancer save" comment
@yahccs1
2 жыл бұрын
We had an electronic double dice device, but I didn't like the way my Dad licked his fingers before touching it. The noise of the real dice wasn't that bad but Dad preferred the 'random number generator' as he didn't like the board getting scratched by fingernails when picking the dice up! I don't know how random it was and if its probability of each number wsa 1/6 like with dice!
@uku4171
2 жыл бұрын
It's not free, it's included in the price.
@fredderf5607
7 жыл бұрын
"Think of a random number" "Let me get out my strontium 90 isotope and Geiger counter" "No, what? No.. just give me a number between 1 and ten!"
@danholland2512
4 жыл бұрын
13
@mahmoodmohammed240
4 жыл бұрын
you just made someone laugh out loud with a joke you made two years ago
@michaelblandon2959
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂🤓
@ramenlover3608
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@tamaghnadey3050
3 жыл бұрын
Between 1 and 10? 7 boiiiiiii!!!!
@grimmerMD
10 жыл бұрын
7 was the first one that popped into my head, but then I picked 5 a split second later because I remembered I pick 7 all the time...
@sshh6285
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful demonstration that our pick is not random at all. That it is series of thoughts, most of the time unconscious.
@ddvld90
3 жыл бұрын
Did just that, 7 then 5.
@joostdriesens3984
2 жыл бұрын
I did that too! 😆
@DialecticRed
2 жыл бұрын
I picked 2 but that's only because I already knew the majority of people pick 7 Also, hello from the future. Things are worse now.
@Haskell-Curry
2 жыл бұрын
@@DialecticRed also 2
@BrooklynAvenue
9 жыл бұрын
I chose 6, which demonstrates my superiority.
@Jossandoval
9 жыл бұрын
+Brooklyn Avenue Actually, since 6 is below 7, you demonstrated your inferiority, at least in choosing numbers from 1 to 10.
@BrooklynAvenue
9 жыл бұрын
***** Dammit! I've been bested by Jose Sandoval again! Next time I will choose 11!
@dorusie5
8 жыл бұрын
+Brooklyn Avenue The actual challenge would be to pick a string of numbers of length 20 though, because the considerations he mentioned will really come into play there. "Pick 2 again? I already picked it twice in a row" etc. But yeah cool I picked 9, the trick is to not think and just say the first number that pops into your head out of your unconscious. (At least if they didn't prime you with one earlier in the video).
@igordutra4171
7 жыл бұрын
i chose 5 :D
@elenaobradovic4181
6 жыл бұрын
I chose 6 too
@Jabrils
6 жыл бұрын
wow. ive came across the video that introduced computerphile. very nice. :D
@ZechMadox
4 жыл бұрын
Hey man. Love your vids!
@TabooGroundhog
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, what are the chances?...
@TAIR736
3 жыл бұрын
Ah you're the minecraft guy
@TabooGroundhog
3 жыл бұрын
@@dualcoregalaxyxxnewextensi1687 Those aren’t random there’s a pattern, but I can’t prove they’re not random though
@kongwhattodo4216
3 жыл бұрын
@@TabooGroundhog .
@Cache-Money-Sectors
7 жыл бұрын
"It's like if you and I had a weight lifting competition, the result would be random." "That's not random, I'm gonna win that one." I don't know why this cracked me up so much.
@willfreedo
8 жыл бұрын
I chose e², because I'm so cool and clever and original and non-mainstream and... ...and its first digit turns out to be 7 ( ._.)
@forty2888
8 жыл бұрын
😂
@SamuelHauptmannvanDam
7 жыл бұрын
I'm just amazed that you can say e^2 in a youtube comment.
@lucastsui5415
5 жыл бұрын
-\_(-_-)_/- I can make faces too
@lucastsui5415
5 жыл бұрын
I never knew.... -\_(-_-)_/-
@Siriusblck3
5 жыл бұрын
@@SamuelHauptmannvanDam abnt keyboards have this options, like ², ³, and °
@Phlebas
9 жыл бұрын
I'm reminded of a statistics class I took during first year university. We all had to buy a specific type of graphing calculator and were told to go through a particular exercise with a "random" number generated by the calculator. As this was the first time many of us used that function of the calculator, about half of us generated the exact same random number. I think our calculator diverged after that, but it was kind of amusing and a pretty clear illustration of how non-random computer-generated random numbers are.
@thefremddingeguy6058
7 жыл бұрын
It might've been because the graphing calculators needed a seed to be inputted from the user, and outputted the exact same numbers with the default seed. Or maybe not; that's just what might've happened. Yes, I typed this reply two years after this comment was posted.
@Thaslughy
5 жыл бұрын
Because the calculator uses the time as input, and it only counts minutes not even seconds?
@duffman18
2 жыл бұрын
I mean if anything, truly random numbers could end up in results like that anyway. Humans like to think of randomness as the things being different every time. But truly random numbers have a lot of repeats, and a lot of numbers that are never chosen at all. The calculator obviously isn't random because no computer can generate truly random numbers. But yeah the fact loads of people got the same number is, if anything, more random, not less.
@Phlebas
2 жыл бұрын
@@duffman18 If what you're saying is that it's a coincidence, I doubt it, mainly because there's a pretty reasonable explanation for all of these calculators coming up with the same random number. I get that random results can sometimes create sequences that aren't intuitive. I don't think that's the case here. These calculators were all the same model and fresh out of the package; it makes a certain amount of sense that they would generate identical results with identical user input.
@LarlemMagic
9 жыл бұрын
6:40 wow this nerd doesn't even have a 12 sided die lying around from his last D&D game.
@JayTemple
5 жыл бұрын
And he doesn't know that the singular of dice is "die," as you and I do.
@glitchwolf1384
5 жыл бұрын
It makes me irrationally angry when people believe a die has to have 6 sides, they are objectively wrong, you can have a die of most numbers! grr... also sorry I bugged you on a 3 year old comment
@jasondeng7677
4 жыл бұрын
Yall ever want a random number from 0 to 20 and you take out da I C O S A H E D R O N
@nanigopalsaha2408
4 жыл бұрын
@@jasondeng7677 What if I want a random number between 1 and 13?
@jasondeng7677
4 жыл бұрын
@@nanigopalsaha2408 roll the I C O S A D E D R O N , if you get 10, roll the I C O S A D E D R O N again. if it's even then you got 10, if its odd you get 13. if you don't get 10 in the first one, that's what you get. hey, it's still as random as before technically
@woobilicious.
9 жыл бұрын
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by a fair dice roll. } // guaranteed to be random.
@OsirusHandle
9 жыл бұрын
+aphocus Its not garanted to be random, though. It is still written using an algorithm and is probably a pseudorandom generator in that it fixes results to make it closer to 1/6th probability, which is not actually random. I it was pure randomness it would be possible to get a hundred trillion 6s in a row, its just unlikely.
@woobilicious.
9 жыл бұрын
SirusKing Whoosh.
@GtaRockt
9 жыл бұрын
+SirusKing bruh
@woobilicious.
9 жыл бұрын
SirusKing You didn't read, it's truly random, because it's a dice roll, not some PRNG.
@oplectaster
8 жыл бұрын
+aphocus LOL LOL LOL. Finally, a random function to rely on LOL
@stagelights_
4 жыл бұрын
"when we throw many" *throws dice* "...some of them go on the floor"
@gonzaloayalaibarre
10 жыл бұрын
I chose 7 but immediately changed to 2 since I KNEW they were going to come up with some annoying psycho-mathematical BULLSHIT predicting my first choice, I hate it when that happens xD
@gonzaloayalaibarre
9 жыл бұрын
Jiří Bém What are you even talking about. And in real life I would have chosen 2, unless they can read minds.
@gonzaloayalaibarre
9 жыл бұрын
Witch Hat Productions Hahaha, only unconscious reasoning matters? I'm not trying to look special or anything like that, I understand what the video is about, intuitively we tend to think that the most "random" number from 1 to 10 is 7, but thing is that there's people that rarely give an intuitive answer, some people will engage in conscious thinking when you ask them that, some people knows there's going to be a trick so they intuitively discard the first guess (me), some people will have previous knowledge of this trick and give you yet another answer, etc. I don't know why you are so adamant in saying that my answer is not "valid", we TEND to chose 7, we don't ALWAYS chose 7.
@ehmcheng
9 жыл бұрын
+Gonzalo Ayala Ibarre i actually chose 7 and then switched to 2 right before haha
@aman_xo
7 жыл бұрын
Me too! I picked first 7, and then changed to 2!
@palmerwoolworth4250
7 жыл бұрын
i did the exact same thing
@Feyd01
10 жыл бұрын
Is anything truly random, or is it just our inability to accurately predict events makes things seem random?
@abcdefzhij
7 жыл бұрын
It's obviously the latter.
@barqueros2001
7 жыл бұрын
Feyd01 the location of electrons in an atom, or the desintegration of a radioactive atom
@ROVAKAN
7 жыл бұрын
Feyd01 that is philosphy not maths:)
@leonk6950
7 жыл бұрын
Well Quantum physics are about propability. But everything else is just a lack of knowledge and observation
@wurttmapper2200
7 жыл бұрын
Just quantum probability is truly random. Classical probability is inability to predict
@TomasThelander
11 жыл бұрын
Great video. I studied this at the university so I knew most of it already, but James added an extra dimension to it in this wonderful demonstration.
@caetanogodinat1989
2 жыл бұрын
man, can u explain me from where he took the (aX + b) % m? like who invented it, is it rly used to regenerate random numbers?
@JonathanChappell
8 жыл бұрын
Who else thought he was going to get a D12?
@RoderickEtheria
8 жыл бұрын
I wanted to know why he didn't.
@General12th
8 жыл бұрын
He looks like the ultimate nerd. I thought he would pull out a d20.
@AcornFox
6 жыл бұрын
J.J. Shank to find a random number between 1 and 12? Sure...
@connorhorman
6 жыл бұрын
Me
@johnplesia5154
6 жыл бұрын
Exactly, because then you don't get a Normal distribution.
@joseph-fernando-piano
9 жыл бұрын
One method I have heard of for generating random numbers in microprocessor boards is using the 3rd decimal digit of the ambient temperature as measured by an onboard thermal sensor... this won't repeat in cyclic patterns as you would get with using time...
@rosiefay7283
3 жыл бұрын
What bitrate can you achieve that way? How long must you wait after reading the sensor once, for the next reading to have 0 correlation with it? Doing this a few times might be a tolerable way to generate the value of the *seed* of a PRNG, but for all practical purposes continue by using a computationally slick PRNG.
@phr3ui559
3 жыл бұрын
Baded
@grabern
8 жыл бұрын
I chose 4, which is even, early on, near the middle and not prime. Lmao.
@WlatPziupp
8 жыл бұрын
Me too. Clearly us both choosing the same number is not random, and we are linked by alien tarot card readings
@RobotProctor
8 жыл бұрын
Solid choice... I like 4. 4 is the only number where its english spelling uses the same number of letters as the number represents. ("four" has 4 letters).
@garbomode29
7 жыл бұрын
Me too. we're superior in generating random numbers
@dumbautisticmutt
7 жыл бұрын
4 is probably the second most common to be chosen. It's as close to the lower bound (1) as 7 is close to the upper bound (10.) So, they're close enough to being to the middle without being at the middle.
@shawnlink2217
7 жыл бұрын
Are you sure my middle of the road 5 that i picked isn't even more random because no one expects 5?
@YLLPal
10 жыл бұрын
I usually pick 8 out of pure protest for the stats on 7, which of course makes it no longer random. Also, the numbers chosen around (and including) the 1 to make it a random part are the sequence for x/7. I can't help but notice that set of numbers.
@IvanVassiljevitsch
10 жыл бұрын
"As a scientist, I model..... gases." lol
@seanwestfall1728
10 жыл бұрын
So where is the proof that the numbers that thing is providing are in fact random? How do we know that it's not just producing numbers in a pattern we're not currently aware of?
@yakov9ify
6 жыл бұрын
Because we can't predict what the pattern is so even if there was a pattern it would still count as random
@austinconner2479
6 жыл бұрын
Current understanding of quantum mechanics is that it is described only by tuly random events and that no larger theory with currently unknown variables can explain our data. This was explicitly tested and ruled out in the Bell experiments, although I'm not an expert in the exact statement of the result.
@angelmendez-rivera351
5 жыл бұрын
The proof is that quantum effects are random since they are the consequence of a wavefunction collapse, and the wavefunction is nothing but the probability amplitude of a state.
@rpdigital17
8 жыл бұрын
Many people pick 5, because this is their "lucky number" (talk to my hand...). I picked 6, I do like the hexagons and hexapod robots.
@andyli1890
8 жыл бұрын
RPdigital I thought 7 was the most common lucky number
@87我是-h3u
6 жыл бұрын
RPdigital I pick six too *picked
@ernycas1
6 жыл бұрын
You put a logic in action when was asked to pick A RANDOM number, pal
@nb3775
4 жыл бұрын
I picked 5
@Giyga
4 жыл бұрын
5 is my lucky number
@Breiflabb1000
11 жыл бұрын
Agreed. "Too complex to calculate" is not random. It should also be noted that you need outer limits for your random number. In this video they go 1-10, 1-6, 2-12 etc. If it was truly random and open, you could get very very large numbers, and they would be as probable as the lower ones. You also have to limit it to number sets. Do you want negative numbers? Imaginary numbers? Integers? etc.
@mikestoneadfjgs
9 жыл бұрын
James Clewett is my role model. I want to be just like him when I grow up but im like 30 so idk
@oz_jones
7 жыл бұрын
You can always aim to be like Cliff Stoll :)
@gabriellecrawford9856
4 жыл бұрын
10:33 ZERO??? HAHAHA!! My favorite part!
@DRAGON_450K
2 ай бұрын
Superb Explaination on Random Numbers Concept
@lladerat
10 жыл бұрын
I think there is no randomness in the universe. Everything has a cause, even those individual electrons flying into detector not doing it randomly, but because of.. some processes that happens on that particular level. So basically there is no such thing as a random number (or anything, really...), even if we use events that take place in space to generate random nubers they wont be random but will represent 'breath of the universe'.
@la_lavanda
6 жыл бұрын
"Choose a number between 1 and 10" Class: "32!" "475,003,362,834,123!" "Finland!" Teacher:😐😑
@brettefantomet
4 жыл бұрын
Memory overflow, you say?
@Sci0927
3 жыл бұрын
the first one is bigger than you think
@masonhunter2748
3 жыл бұрын
@@Sci0927 32 factorial.
@lkjhoiuy97yjhgghfyrthgvjhguty
10 жыл бұрын
You need a D12 to generate numbers between 1 through 12. Mostly used for Pen and paper roleplaying games.
@kjpmi
8 жыл бұрын
I want to see more James
@Athenas_Realm_System
8 жыл бұрын
Another method used by many operating systems for generating random numbers for cryptography is to take seeds from all kinds of sources like hardware interupts down to the nanosecond and then run an encryption algorithm on it using previous number generated so rather than starting with one seed you have constant reseeding and after a couple minutes running the algorithm for the first time generally the random numbers while still being pseudo-random appear statistically random... Yarrow is one of those algorithms that is used by both /dev/random and the /dev/urandom on OS X (both are linked as OS X doesn't block like linux).
@thesuomi8550
6 жыл бұрын
That "Brilliant!" shout would've been a great way to jump to a sponsored section
@Lugmillord
10 жыл бұрын
At first I thought "4", but I expected the numbers in the middle to be chosen more often, so I took 1.
@TheGreatRakatan
9 жыл бұрын
Weird, I chose 4
@timclaydon5383
9 жыл бұрын
+TheGreatRakatan Me 3!
@jsbarretto
8 жыл бұрын
+Tim Claydon You're not trying hard enough to get there...
@TheCherry1994
8 жыл бұрын
+TheGreatRakatan Chosen by a fair dice roll
@almogbarel1
8 жыл бұрын
me too
@jsbarretto
8 жыл бұрын
***** Pretty sure he said "whole" integer.
@Wilq59r
5 жыл бұрын
"This radioactive strontium is dangerous, needs to be respected, because if not, it will hurt you." Then proceeds to use it as a paperweight.
@orrebiff
10 жыл бұрын
i pretty pissed that i picked 7 >,
@DocWolph
10 жыл бұрын
I chose 6.
@phoenix21studios
4 жыл бұрын
Random usually means unpredictable.
@alicemalloney1483
8 жыл бұрын
I chose 1. I don't like 7 because it's too mainstream.
@CanalTALL
10 жыл бұрын
7 was the first to come to my mind, then a changed to six. I tried this with my 11 yrs old syster and she picked 7
@anawesomepet
4 жыл бұрын
So, I checked frame by frame and the 3 6’s that were rolled were in the SAME ORIENTATION!
@jpheitman
11 жыл бұрын
The point of the Schrödinger's Cat experiment was to show the inherent incompatibility of the macroscopic and microscopic views of the universe, because the cat both must and cannot exist in a superposition. It's a paradox.
@AlexTimification
10 жыл бұрын
I chose 7...
@shugaroony
5 жыл бұрын
@Lucas Silva We all did it seems!
@90MichaelTaylor
11 жыл бұрын
Its funny because i picked 5 for my random number
@jonasbuyle1341
6 жыл бұрын
This guy actually has a radioactive source at his his disposal just for generating random numbers.
@user-dv3lz1vx3g
9 жыл бұрын
i choose 9;-;
@hoekz
11 жыл бұрын
Haha! The numbers he picked at 2:17 are all the digits in 1/7: 0.142857 (repeating) he picked 1,2,5,7,8,4!
@mjdillaha
9 жыл бұрын
I chose 12, how likely was that?
@GregorShapiro
6 жыл бұрын
Very unlikely (the number was to be between 1 and 10).
A small upgrade to your program: choose apropriate time scale and iterate through binary length of a chosen number size (i.e. 8 bits). If in a given time scale electron reached a counter you set this bit to 1, else you set it to 0. This should make your program return value much faster.
@MultiGoban
9 жыл бұрын
I asked my mom and dad separately, both said 7 LOL
@agar0285
5 жыл бұрын
you have 7 likes
@ColaEuphoria
3 жыл бұрын
The sum of dice does not approach a normal distribution. It is actually an Irwin-Hall distribution. They look similar, but Irwin-Hall has a much flatter top with shorter tails, and is a piecewise polynomial, not exponential.
@1ebutuoy2
11 жыл бұрын
The thing that is random about radioactive decay is NOT the average number of decays per unit time but exactly when a decay will occur. So if you were to measure the number of pico-seconds between two decays and then only look at the least significant digit, then you would have a completely random number. In fact there are products on the market to generate random numbers that work this way.
@subjectt.change6599
10 жыл бұрын
I hate to be overly philosophical, but can anything above the quantum level be truly random? Aren't the systems sufficiently deterministic as to always have patternicity, even if chaotic?
@austinconner2479
6 жыл бұрын
The radioactive source is truly random because of the quantum effects you mention. It's true physics is deterministic aside from quantum effects, but as with radiation, quantum effects can affect macroscopic things as well in some cases. In practice, for serious randomness (for example, for cryptography), computers will collect entropy from its environment, ie the exact arrival time of network packets or completion times of hard drive seeks. Like you say maybe these could be predicted in principle if you could know the exact state of the world, but this is practically impossible. Extreme needs (military?) may even put radioactive sources in the computer and use those timings.
@angelmendez-rivera351
5 жыл бұрын
Jeffrey Elliott No, nothing aside from quantum effects can be random. Every classical system is deterministic. The roll of a dice is deterministic. Us being too limited to do the complicated math to know what value will come out of the roll with arbitrary precision does not make it random, it makes it chaotic.
@SteveChisnall
8 жыл бұрын
8:22 He must play ShadowRun a lot
@cecillemilitante3115
4 жыл бұрын
Not only are the numbers random,this video is more random than Vsauce topic switches.
Gman5938 that is bigger than 6, and therefore basically 7
@Koplerio
7 жыл бұрын
+Knuf Wons Someone doesn't know the .5 rule :D
@GustavoGaming
7 жыл бұрын
Knuf Wons yeah but 2 is lower than 5 so its still 6
@kaina5467
7 жыл бұрын
I pick 9.95136833564228, exactly that number, deal with it
@egs_mythicgamer4013
3 жыл бұрын
“You’re not gonna choose an even number, those don’t seem random” Me after choosing 2: Well alright then
@GH-oi2jf
2 жыл бұрын
The randomness is in the process. If you have a process that will select any of ten numbers with equal probability, then when you pick just one number, it is random.
@ThisNameIsBanned
11 жыл бұрын
The casino used dice is in fact "balanced" even taken the paint into account, which sharp edges, that it really is balanced as best as possible. The regular dice isnt perfect, but its random enough for anything you use a regular dice for.
@Iederhas
10 жыл бұрын
I chose +-3.
@swapniltripathi7102
3 жыл бұрын
But u got 7 likes
@nathanreveron7726
11 жыл бұрын
I chose four!
@macaronivirus5913
5 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the club of those who chose 4
@ThisNameIsBanned
11 жыл бұрын
The dice you speak of is a normal one. A dice in a casino for example doesnt have this issue, they are same on every side, including paint used for the numbers and dont have any holes, they even have a sharper edge, which makes the product much more "random" than the usual dice.
@mihaitensor
10 жыл бұрын
I've chosed 7 :))
@hallcrash
11 жыл бұрын
So that is how we win at lotto? cool.
@SomeRandomPiggo
4 жыл бұрын
"Think of a random number" Ok, 7. "Everyone chose seven" h o l y s h i t
@theinvestmentguy
9 жыл бұрын
i guessed 6 because its random :P
@kriosuranous3440
8 жыл бұрын
I chose 8 because I had noticed how when someone is ask the question they usually 7, so 8 is the next best number.
@wesofx8148
7 жыл бұрын
Whenever you need a random number, just use 7.
@B3Band
9 жыл бұрын
"0 is the most likely outcome" Then how is it random?
@cupcakewubington4138
8 жыл бұрын
I choose 7
@cupcakewubington4138
8 жыл бұрын
Dammit
@andyyy3775
9 жыл бұрын
i chose 9
@apparentlymyusernameistool3721
7 жыл бұрын
Damn I wasn't aware that so many people chose "random" numbers like that, I always just assumed I was an indecisive idiot for it.
@LEATHERrebelJUSTICE
8 жыл бұрын
6 and a half minutes in, ruffly, he made a communication mistake. He said you can't get a number between 1 and 12 with 2 dice because you cannot get the number one by adding the sums of 2 dice. Well 1 is not a number in between 1 and 12, 1 is the border, it isn't between the borders. Not a math mistake but it was an English mistake.
@mubutukinkeke
8 жыл бұрын
+Leather Rebel Justice That's a bit ruff.
@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322
8 жыл бұрын
+Leather Rebel Justice When people say "between 1 and 10" the vast majority of people mean including 1 and 10. When people mean it to be exclusive, they state it explicitly. I'd argue he's using the common way of saying it rather than the mathematical way.
@LEATHERrebelJUSTICE
8 жыл бұрын
+DaffyDaffyDaffy33322 They could also mean 7000 and 189 but that isn't what they said. I mean your comment literally made me jump out of my skin. what do you think about that? Many people also use literally to mean metaphorically which would make the word literally useless if it meant both. I bet your own my side with that. So lets not give into common usage making English a less clear language.
@dermaniac5205
8 жыл бұрын
+Leather Rebel Justice I was thinking the same thing. He meant "from 1 to 12" but said "between 1 and 12". It's a very common mistake, though.
@Spencero123
8 жыл бұрын
+Leather Rebel Justice no
@OwenPrescott
8 жыл бұрын
7 :D
@christosvoskresye
8 жыл бұрын
This may seem nitpicking, but saying a number is "random" does not mean it is chosen from a uniform distribution. Case in point: If a number is really chosen at random, so will be the sum of two number so chosen, but they can't both have a uniform distribution. This is why you are more likely to roll a 7 with 2 standard dice than either a 1 or a 12. This actually makes an important difference when you don't know what the probability density function is, the way (for example) we don't know what PDF to use for the fundamental physical constants when making an argument about the anthropic principle.
@christosvoskresye
8 жыл бұрын
+christosvoskresye I should have held off, because he addresses this. Interestingly, though, there are correlations in radiation data -- not due to the decay process itself, but because it takes the counter a small but nonzero length of time to register and reset. It has been argued that some of the better pseudorandom number generators actually do a better job of passing the tests for randomness than radiation counts like this.
@iLLixer
9 жыл бұрын
Picked 5 lol
@TheAdriyaman
8 жыл бұрын
*All hail Matlab*
@Lwyte17
8 жыл бұрын
+Adriyaman Banerjee unless you want a decent plot, then all hail Paraview
@TheAdriyaman
8 жыл бұрын
+Lwyte17 Everyone has their own personal preferences.I only said Matlab because thats what was being used in the video.
@alihesham8167
3 жыл бұрын
numberphlie: chose i number from 1-10 numberphile: 7 is the most common me who picked 7: *sweats*
@SpiritmanProductions
9 жыл бұрын
Great video and all, but, when referring to individual digits, why do you still say 'number' and not 'digit'?
@samuelpronk5096
9 жыл бұрын
+Spiritman Productions Because every individual digit also stands for a number. 7 is both a digit and a number, whereas 17 would be a number consisting of two digits (1 and 7). Both would be correct really, but given we're talking about numerical concepts in our head, number is the adequate term.
@rosiefay7283
3 жыл бұрын
He was talking about integers in the range 1..10 (and, later, 1..6, so that he could use a d6). So why not say "number"?
@JayTemple
5 жыл бұрын
Related to picking a random number without a specified parameter ... When I was in college, I made the argument with my professor that points must have mass. (I recognize that I was wrong, but bear with me.) I said that the area under a curve would be 0 if the points didn't have mass. Ultimately, I said that if a point has no mass, then the probability of choosing any particular number must be 0. Let's say for example that the "mass" of 3 + 7 sqrt(2) is 0. You ask me to choose a random number, and I choose 3 + 7 sqrt(2). If the mass is 0, then I just did something impossible!
@steijnvanb4634
9 жыл бұрын
It cost me 5 seconds to think of a random number BETWEEN 1 and 10. This is that i thougt of in order: 110 11 11,1 Elevator Thor 1010 1-10 1210 10? No Thats not random 7! This is what i thougt of when he Saïd to make my mind clear: 7
@PRANKZOMBIE
4 жыл бұрын
Lol they said “obviously you’re not gonna choose 1 or 10”, and I had chosen 1, and I’m thinking “why is that obvious??”
@yukihoshino1295
10 жыл бұрын
Chose 1. And btw if you want random number from 1 to 12, you should roll 1d12, not 2d6.
@minecraftminertime
9 жыл бұрын
1 is too small, 2 is me (makes me unlucky), 3 is the darkest time, 4 is unlucky in china, 5 I might have chose it, 6 is the devil, 7 is heaven and lucky number, 8 depends on luck, makes you unlucky, 9 is too big, 10 is 2 digits
@endermage77
5 жыл бұрын
The best way to get a computer to generate a random sequence is to run an abritrary seed through a series of self-referential and compounding calculations that are so convoluted that not even the bloke who wrote the blasted thing understands how the input gets to the output
@DanielTrojnacki
9 жыл бұрын
He's holding something radioactive and says I want to play a game... This is not goin to be ok
@krowa1010
4 жыл бұрын
probably that number of electrons also should follow some pattern, it is just random to us, cause we have no idea what it is
@linhkien5199
8 жыл бұрын
7 books, 7 horcruxes, 7 years at hogwarts, 7 people in a quidditch team, 7 potters in the battle of the 7 potters, 7..........
@RoderickEtheria
8 жыл бұрын
Wait, if you want to generate a random number between 1 and 12, why aren't you simply rolling a single die? There are 12-sided dice, you know.
@robertbrown5974
2 жыл бұрын
I said 8 because I didn't want to say 7 because I thought that wouldn't actually be random. I don't know if my actual choice is random, but I'm proud of myself for trying to make my choice better.
@LunizIsGlacey
2 жыл бұрын
Get destroyed! I thought 8! Although, for television volumes I always go for a number ending in 7.
@ruby_R53
2 жыл бұрын
and in my case for some reason i go for a number ending in 0, 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8 lol
@ericmintz8305
Жыл бұрын
You don't need radiation, actually. You can also generate truly random numbers from a noisy zener diode, or any noisy semiconductor junction. Many computers have this built in.
@keithwilson6060
6 жыл бұрын
Something that struck me hard about probability lately is a state lottery game where 12 numbers are “randomly” drawn out of a field of 24. You choose your own 12 numbers in a play. Jackpots are won by picking either all of the drawn numbers or NONE of them. Lesser prizes are won by picking lesser or more numbers. As a matter of fact, the only way NOT to win is if you pick 5, 6, or 7 of the drawn numbers, everything else wins. Strangely, almost every time, you end up picking either 5, 6, or 7 of the drawn numbers.
@ygalel
3 жыл бұрын
I love how you can tell he is not a statistician because he called it Gaussian. I guess normal stands for something else.
@must_be_Ash
4 жыл бұрын
This guy is sick!! the first youtube video I liked and commented on
@ttd972
6 жыл бұрын
The number you get from a radioactive source is not Gaussian, it follows a Poisson distribution
@HunterBelch-bs8tq
Жыл бұрын
The difference between what is most likely and what we got is zero = Random.
@jg-reis
8 жыл бұрын
There are no random numbers… hmmm… I think next time someone asks me, “Pick a random number”, I’ll say, “Give me several random numbers and I’ll pick one for you.” Ha. Ha.
@icanfast
6 жыл бұрын
Asks for a number between 1 and 10 Generates 0 Proceeds to generate 13
@JorgetePanete
7 жыл бұрын
It's like he looks directly to us through that camera
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