Remarkable. Even if he had instantly closed his eyes and put his head in his hand to process this, it would have been impressive to get there in such a short time, but he was actually conferring with his team-mates, meaning he was going through the rows in his head while discussing. Hats off...
@gnamp
11 ай бұрын
It was still just an educated guess.
@JoBloggs3rd-os6se
8 ай бұрын
@@gnampwhat a miserly response. No doubt you will now regale us with your (unverifiable and therefore worthless) maths genius and all round superhero gifted spoils 🥱
@user-po2qb6cm9q
8 ай бұрын
@@gnampI wouldn't say being 100% accurate was guessing
@gnamp
8 ай бұрын
@@user-po2qb6cm9q that's not how guessing works, I'm afraid.
@mandelbot5318
8 ай бұрын
@@user-po2qb6cm9qI’m not saying I agree with the educated guess comment, but any correct guess is 100% accurate whilst still being a guess.
@nnmartin94
6 жыл бұрын
COME ON LET'S HAVE IT PLEASE
@Camberwell86
6 жыл бұрын
Thinks he's Delia Smith at Norwich. (._.)
@fatbelly27
6 жыл бұрын
She got Carrow Road confused with Letsby Avenue
@t.d6379
6 жыл бұрын
Funniest thing ever hahaha
@colinglen4505
6 жыл бұрын
prick ain't he?
@armouredoutlaw1537
6 жыл бұрын
colin glen nah university challenge is for the elite intellectuals, if your time wasting for even a moment you shouldn't be there
@Ashfielder
6 жыл бұрын
NUMBERWANG!
@TENEBRAELGAMING
6 жыл бұрын
hahaha
@saulbadman3125
6 жыл бұрын
That's Numberwang!
@zeroireland
6 жыл бұрын
Toby Wood This comment is funnier than every Numberwang skit put together.
@charliemctruth
6 жыл бұрын
Toby..you might have h
@bonkeydollocks1879
6 жыл бұрын
Toby Wood that was super , Hans !
@_MSD75_
6 жыл бұрын
Those gasps were SO loud, they burst my eardrums and now I'M DEAF.
@e13kid
Жыл бұрын
At least you can still read subtitles
@Chris22967
8 ай бұрын
WHAT?
@simoneastwood3779
8 ай бұрын
Absolutel! I'm glad they gave us a written warning in advance. I'm still recovering. 😂
@Steve-bo6ht
7 ай бұрын
🤣Brilliant
@Chucklea9
7 ай бұрын
it is sarcasm @@Chris22967
@PoisonousPen
8 ай бұрын
This is seriously impressive. I can only just spell tryangel 🤷♂️ Edit: Tryangull 👍
@user-lo5qm5tu8m
8 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@solentbum
8 ай бұрын
I can only play one!
@SkyBlueNeil
8 ай бұрын
Brilliant 🤣
@happydays3678
8 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@ots1634
7 ай бұрын
You spelled it wrong
@YelpBullhorn
6 жыл бұрын
He took his bloody time!!!
@jer4858
6 жыл бұрын
YelpBullhorn - that made me laugh out loud, very witty indeed!
@jessicaellina3878
Жыл бұрын
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@davidwhittworth1841
23 күн бұрын
😄
@mysteryman480
8 ай бұрын
Here is the easiest calculation method I know of: start with 1 (to get 1) divide by 1, multiply by 6 (to get 6) divide by 2, multiply by 5 (to get 15) divide by 3, multiply by 4 (to get 20). At every step, the number you divide by increases by 1, whilst the multiplier decreases by 1. You continue as long as you are dividing by a smaller number than you are multiplying by. You then reverse the sequence to get the remaining numbers (in this case, to get 15, 6, 1). Hence the answer is 1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1. This method works for any row; for example, for the subsequent row, simply multiply by 7 (instead of 6).
@fossseseptique
8 ай бұрын
Of course! You took the words right of my mouth 😅
@carnbyarst670
8 ай бұрын
That's easy?! 😳
@mysteryman480
8 ай бұрын
@@carnbyarst670 It is way easier than any of the calculation methods I have read in this comments section.
@carnbyarst670
8 ай бұрын
@@mysteryman480 I think I must have Dyscalculia, my brain goes into meltdown when presented with too many numbers...
@GeorgeMCMLIX
8 ай бұрын
@@fossseseptique - 😆😂🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@christopherpalmer4281
6 жыл бұрын
I didn't understand the question never mind the answer!
@louisericketts6738
6 жыл бұрын
Christopher Palmer That happens all the time for me on this program. Conversely sometimes I can answer things they don't know.
@breakevenbernie8543
6 жыл бұрын
Christopher Palmer I'm with you on that !
@HarryScutt
6 жыл бұрын
Pascal's triangle is basically just a geometric representation of something called 'The choose function'. Basically, you have 5 apples, and you want to know how many unique ways there are to choose 3 apples, you look on the 5th row of Pascal's triangle, and then look at the 3rd number along. There's a mathematical formula for it, but there's no point trying to explain it in a KZitem comment, so Google it if you want, but another way of writing that apple scenario would be 5n3, the answer to which is 10, so there are 10 ways to choose 3 things from a group of 5
@vitakyo982
6 жыл бұрын
It's about the coefficients of the developement of : ( a + b ) ^ n . For example : ( a + b ) ^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2 => 1,2,1 . Here the question concerns ( a + b ) ^ 6 => 1,6,15,20,15,6,1 ...
@christopherpalmer4281
6 жыл бұрын
VITA kyo that just makes it worse x
@pureblood1980x
6 жыл бұрын
of course it is...anyone knows that!
@Ozzpot
6 жыл бұрын
I was as amazed as everyone else at his answer, but the answer to the third question was the Fibonacci Sequence, which I got and they didn't! Made me feel like a right nerd.
@onlyweatherlol93
11 ай бұрын
I genuinely can't believe they didn't get through 3rd question... disappointing really
@oldskoolrools1353
8 ай бұрын
Lol...shouldn't feel a nerd..my wife and I compete to get most answers correct in a show...usually a one answer win...in that we usually get one correct per show between us...
@iwakuraSanta
8 ай бұрын
well done
@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv
7 ай бұрын
Fibonacci was on the UK secondary school syllabus; the only Pascal I knew of at school was one half of Johnny Jungle
@csb7376
6 жыл бұрын
Any old school betting shop manager would reel off Pascal's triangle with ease. It gives the amount of doubles, trebles, 4-folds etc for any amount of selections. His answer was the number of bets in a Lucky 63.
@martinkil50
6 жыл бұрын
Just saw your reply - said a similar thing myself - although I couldn't remember the name of a heinz with the singles - lucky 63 - ta for that
@qed456
8 ай бұрын
yes the sign of a punter
@SandymoorFerrariClub
8 ай бұрын
@@qed456 So what we're saying is he may be a maths genius, but it's more likely he's a gambling addict?
@Treviscoe
20 күн бұрын
That's still impressive!
@PianoDreams
6 жыл бұрын
Bit slow but got there in the end.
@mattdaugherty7865
2 ай бұрын
“What is your favorite color? Blue….no, wait!”
@alexanderthegreat445
6 жыл бұрын
Hapaxlegomenlemon
@AutisticAl
6 жыл бұрын
Alexander the Great 😂😂😂Mentally challenged! If you liked that, check out my version on my channel i made an edit to this show.
@Rufusdos
6 жыл бұрын
I feel good about myself if I can fully understand the question, never mind start formulating an answer!
@WhipLashJimmyFrank
2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching that. That was amazing knowledge.
@firsargentum5920
9 ай бұрын
Very impressive but less about knowledge and more about being able to work things out from first principles...
@OriginalRaveParty
6 жыл бұрын
Of course. I forgot to carry the one... and the rest of the answer.
@ritadepeeves
6 жыл бұрын
Took the answer right out my mouth!!
@Chafflives
8 ай бұрын
I didn’t even need him to finish the question. 😬
@TehSeanRadcliffe
6 жыл бұрын
that wasn't a gasp, let alone the audience gasping, that was the guy in the grey suit, exhaling/laughing in astonishment.
@RaniaIsAwesome
Жыл бұрын
That's what a gasp is, unless they've changed the meaning of the word gasp.
@CA-ee1et
Жыл бұрын
@@RaniaIsAwesome The guy in the grey suit is not the audience, unless they've changed the meaning of the word audience.
@RenaissanceEarCandy
9 ай бұрын
@@CA-ee1etthat wasn't a grey suit, that's black, unless they've changed the meaning of the word grey.
@Gallo_162
9 ай бұрын
@@RenaissanceEarCandy this is an unnecessary comment. unles theyve changed the meaning of the words this, is, unnecessary and comment.
@jfr1995
8 ай бұрын
The guy on his team clearly gasped. As whoever responded to your initial comment said, you literally described what a gasp is.
@GodOfVictory501
6 жыл бұрын
Paxman: 'What's the seventh row of Pascal's triangle?' Me: 'It's a ring toss game'
@yadpreetcheema4806
6 жыл бұрын
I love how he just starts right on the second question
@MisterWade74
2 ай бұрын
The guy is amazing, but it’s the woman who gets a spot in the thumbnail.
@SpeccyHorace
Ай бұрын
That's how you get the clicks.
@heronimousbrapson863
6 ай бұрын
Knowing the intricacies of Pascals triangle are all well and good, but will it keep the house clean?
@Isleofskye
2 ай бұрын
Sums my 69 years up.Went to a prestigious Grammar School.Good academic qualifications. Done , reasonably, well but can I or have I ever, changed a plug,a modern lightbulb or car tyre after 44 successful driving??? Nah.....:)
@iandodd14
7 ай бұрын
I didn't even know Pascal played the triangle!
@garythompson9452
7 ай бұрын
I don't even know who Pascal is or was.
@blipboop5594
6 жыл бұрын
When doing a binomial expansion, e.g. (x+y)^n, the coefficients of the terms of the result are the nth row of pascals triangle. Anyone who does a lot of maths (especially combinatorics) will have a great deal of it memorised, so it's very unlikely he's actually calculating it on the fly.
@brochestedbs
6 ай бұрын
If he's done much maths he'd know it by heart anyway.
@annoyingbstard9407
4 ай бұрын
Durr! Like we don’t all know that.
@Isleofskye
2 ай бұрын
@@annoyingbstard9407 Exactly.Like teach us something new Daddy-O:(
@oddities-whatnot
8 ай бұрын
I was so shit at maths at school, I couldnt even find the classroom number.
@tectorama
6 ай бұрын
Me too. Looking back, I've never had to use any of what we were taught in maths. Other than the multiplication tables which we were taught in Junior school. I've never had to use Algebra, long division and multiplication. etc...
@stoolpigeon4285
7 ай бұрын
I did that quicker. I never realised how smart I must be. Thanks UC
@RobManser77
Ай бұрын
Normal bloke has the answer Attractive girl without the answer gets the thumbnail Welcome to social media!
@bbb462cid
6 жыл бұрын
OK Bambi, let's have another!
@flipper2392
6 ай бұрын
Got to give Lowery full credit for going on TV with that haircut.
@nagasubrahmanyan9441
2 жыл бұрын
While in no means unimpressive, people with experience with permutations and combinations would think of the seventh row of the Pascal's triangle as 6c0, 6c1, 6c2, 6c3, 6c2, 6c1 and 6c0. So, 1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1.
@TallBoy-vf3tt
2 жыл бұрын
😴😴
@williamweir1547
6 жыл бұрын
I can count up to potato
@davefrance3721
6 жыл бұрын
william weir I constantly get questions about pasquals triangle and find the knowledge very useful. I graduated from Oxford with a degree in sarcasm.. 😎
@mandolinic
6 жыл бұрын
"I can count up to potato" Well done, Mr President.
@17jun1989
6 жыл бұрын
This guy has A Beautiful Mind lol
@airfixx_8952
8 ай бұрын
Couldn't help noticing the Jim Carey "So there's a chance" gif sitting to his right. 🤣
@paulrispin4989
8 ай бұрын
Quite straight forward if you have taught A level maths as long as I have. I can remember this but cant remember names for the life of me!!
@TheVicar
8 ай бұрын
Hi Peter
@OghamTheBold
Ай бұрын
I did advanced Maths (only 1 year early) and won the college Physics prize a forced labour camp in … 19 and … 84
@Karl_with_a_K
Ай бұрын
Paxman loves sounding smug while the answers are written in front of him on the card.
@iskindersam4899
6 жыл бұрын
Why I'm I looking at the woman if she has Notting to do with it
@esclad
6 жыл бұрын
Mind blown!
@DenkyManner
5 ай бұрын
A question so unreasonably difficult that when someone answers correctly there's a gasp
@brasstacks4801
6 жыл бұрын
That was wrong the answer was Toxteth O'grady.
@KhanivoreQniba
6 жыл бұрын
Wow. This is why all should go to university.
@williamwallace5857
5 ай бұрын
Many years ago on Uni Challenge Paxman asked a team (something along the lines of) 'What is the name of the ground where Glasgow Celtic play ?' The team answered 'Celtic Park' which is correct - but Paxman said the team were wrong and that the answer is 'Parkhead' and so the team did not get the points. Paxman was simply wrong. Parkhead is the name of the district within Glasgow where Celtic play.
@user-ir8lw6vq3o
8 ай бұрын
What you talkin' about, Willis!?!
@stonedroses45
8 ай бұрын
I was never taught stuff like that in school I can’t even speak proper English like what they do😂
@robertedwards5184
6 жыл бұрын
What about the constipated mathematician. He worked it out with a pencil. - On a serious note, that quick answer was phenomenal. 😋
@hOREP245
6 жыл бұрын
ha you stole that from numberphile ha
@cymruisrael
6 жыл бұрын
Alternative solution - he worked it out with logs.
@jayturner3397
7 ай бұрын
And there was me ready to laugh, until I realised I dont even understand the Q....hmmmmm 😅😂
@anthonythomas6578
8 ай бұрын
1 1 is actually Pascal's first line, not his second line. So his 7th line would be 1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1. I'll get my coat 🙄🤣
@vladimironoprienko7177
4 ай бұрын
I've never seen a Pascal's triangle depicted like that. Even Pascal himself used the triangle with "1" being the first line
@ze_rubenator
6 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for the gasp but then the video was over. I feel violated.
@Kousaburo
2 ай бұрын
That was one hell of a guess.
@Nickersons-Theme
6 жыл бұрын
I was litureally about to say that before he did!
@Mandaxx25
6 жыл бұрын
He is definitely the geek of the week
@LofiWurld
6 жыл бұрын
What the genius phook.
@BaddaBigBoom
6 жыл бұрын
My fav quiz show EVER and (sorry Bamber) Jeremy Paxman is the best presenter ever. Please let this show continue at least as long as The Sky At Night.
@GirGir183
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, but don't dumb down THIS show with tokenism for women and children, and some awful presenters. (I'm talkin' about pocock).
@BaddaBigBoom
6 жыл бұрын
Selinor578 frisnit frisnit
@GirGir183
6 жыл бұрын
What?
@krashd
6 жыл бұрын
Crop rotation in the 14th century..
@BaddaBigBoom
6 жыл бұрын
William Pitt the elder.
@braeduin
8 ай бұрын
I clicked on the video thinking that the answer was something offensive. Instead I'm left amazed and inspired.
@InspectorCallahan.44
6 жыл бұрын
"what happened I blacked out"
@user-ux9zg5oz7f
3 ай бұрын
That's impressive, but did you know that Bruce Lee had a brother who was a strict vegetarian, and his name was Brocco - " Just sayin " 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
@jamesryan82
3 жыл бұрын
At 0.24 "Oh my God I love you so much"
@BF1GUN
6 жыл бұрын
Why did it take him so long to answer?
@jamiethompson6169
6 жыл бұрын
Bazza he was trying to work it out but got rushed by Paxman so just said one of the rows of Pascal’s Triangle
@briansmith2328
6 жыл бұрын
I though the answer was 7 7 because he said the 7th line 😂😂😂
@CodeCommand
6 жыл бұрын
that is fucking incredible
@Jeremy-jm3fe
6 жыл бұрын
0:23 You can see the exact moment that woman fell in love. She looked like she wanted to marry him right on stage.
@DeadAbeVigoda
6 жыл бұрын
When in doubt, just say "Paris."
@Squab1972
Ай бұрын
That is badass !
@BradTheProducer
7 ай бұрын
Sometimes I mix up the digits of my own phone number, and these people are out there folding damn space/time in their heads.
@tinman8311
6 жыл бұрын
I answered that question at my pub quiz the other night
@Ligerpride
6 жыл бұрын
That's a ridiculous question to ask within a short time limit.
@Ligerpride
6 жыл бұрын
Well yes, but look at the shock on everyone's face. This was a proper outlier in terms of anyone getting this correct within say 15 seconds.
@Ligerpride
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's fair enough I suppose. I guess my main consideration here is the impact of the time constraint and the studio environment here. You look at quiz shows and even the most basic of questions seem hard. A bit like when you're on the phone spelling something out and unless you go with the standard E for Echo you might find yourself with the old "E for ehhh, E for ehhhh..........ah fuck it E for Elephant" because the mind has gone blank otherwise :-)
@Ligerpride
6 жыл бұрын
TheRenaissanceman65 haha, brilliant. Thanks for that, gave me a good laugh.
@macsuip2
6 жыл бұрын
nah, if you were a maths Phd you'd be annoyed if you got this wrong. its 3 numbers; then reverse.
@lebagel
6 жыл бұрын
University Challenge targets its questions at contestant's knowledge; so this is the type of stuff these guys might know. Also edits out most starter questions no one gets right.
@chrisadie1432
6 жыл бұрын
Rainman would've got it before Paxman had finished asking the question 😁
@steveellis9004
Жыл бұрын
And then farted in the phone box.
@e13kid
Жыл бұрын
And then tried to eat his shoelaces
@NeptuneReturnz
6 жыл бұрын
He's obviously Illuminati.
@doctorfeelfunny584
6 жыл бұрын
Watch/listen again. That was the guy beside him gasping. The audience applauded (and someone hooted).
@silenusut
7 ай бұрын
Have you seen the latest UC setup? Everything looks like it’s woken .. from off the back of an IKEA removal van .. including the little chap in the High Chair .. I can’t watch this last & sad version.
@nakkadu
3 ай бұрын
Impressive but it's a thing some people memorise, like learning Pi to 20 decimal places. He didn't sit there and work it out.
@smithwesson14
6 жыл бұрын
This guy must get so much tail
@davelordy
6 жыл бұрын
#metoo
@krashd
6 жыл бұрын
His blumpkins are divine.
@smithwesson14
6 жыл бұрын
Look at how wet Nielsen gets
@almostfm
6 жыл бұрын
Math, as a skill, is much less useful in that situation than you'd think. For example, I've never successfully pulled a girl by pointing out that you can convert between miles and kilometers by using the Fibonacci sequence.
@satori4183
6 жыл бұрын
Lowery needed to change his undies after that
@-stantheman-
6 ай бұрын
Frankly, I amazed he took so long to answer
@peterbattey8263
8 ай бұрын
With maths I've never understood why that kind of question seems important and why the answer seems even more important. How does it help with problems of today? Enlighten me if you can
@BigUriel
4 ай бұрын
In this context it's just a maths quiz. As with most higher mathematical problems, it's an abstraction, by itself it's not important other than just a mental exercise, but eventually people always find uses for it. Mathematics provides tools for solving problems, we just may not know what the problem itsolves is yet, but there is bound to be one because the universe runs on numbers. Modern quantum theory, and by extension electronics engineering and the computer or smartphone you're using right now, was made possible by things like calculus and matrix algebra, which were developed centuries earlier and at the time weren't really used for much of anything.
@user-cw9qn1nb2n
4 ай бұрын
60 years ago I was being taught algebra in school. Now, 60 years later, I can reveal that I have NEVER needed it, not once in all that time. So why did they bother?
@robertturnbull9153
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome !
@BaddaBigBoom
6 жыл бұрын
Oh yesss :-)
@alwaysright3718
2 ай бұрын
Good enough to go on IT Crowd's Countdown....
@NallDave
6 ай бұрын
Wow, me no clue, you genius.
@TheComputec
Ай бұрын
As a self taught mathematician I tried to work it out myself and while I was 70% sure I was correct there's alweays that 40% chance that you have got it wrong
@lindamcavoy5516
8 ай бұрын
I didn't even understand the question ! So impressed very .....
@stephn987
5 ай бұрын
It was how quickly he worked it out for me. If only I had 10% of his intelligence, my life would be a lot different.
@L4LTVuk
6 жыл бұрын
But it is the 6th row surely if the first row is 0th row as it should be in Maths?
@garrigproductions
6 жыл бұрын
Here's a better question...If a fly is called a fly, why isn't a fish called a swim?......go on answer that one smart arse!
@benclough379
6 жыл бұрын
He was a maths teacher at my school
@Isleofskye
6 жыл бұрын
I wish I knew Jeremy Paxman like you..
@Isleofskye
2 ай бұрын
That was a very funny comment 6 years ago. I wish I knew you... Hang On! THat IS me from 2018...
@sidecarbod1441
6 жыл бұрын
If I don't know the answer to the question (as in 99% of the time) then I just guess that the answer will be 'gravel'...one day the answer will be gravel and I'll be right!
@leopoldopetrieska6564
3 жыл бұрын
might maybe the answer will never be "gravel"...
@sidecarbod1441
3 жыл бұрын
@@leopoldopetrieska6564 There are many questions where the answer would be gravel, I just need to wait for the right question to be asked.
@DingKong
2 ай бұрын
Paxman - what a grumpy git "Let's have it!"
@jpa_fasty3997
7 ай бұрын
Either he's rainman or he works on some kind of problems where he's looking at pascals triangle pretty often and he knows most the rows by heart. I sort of hope its the former, as that is much cooler.
@rocketrabble6737
4 ай бұрын
I think at that moment the young women, Noble, would have done anything he asked of her.
@TheTruthKiwi
7 ай бұрын
It would be nice to be that smart, like a cheat code for life.
@6panel300
Жыл бұрын
I'm happy if I answer 1 question correctly per programme. I feel especially smug if they don't answer the same question correctly.
@tombarter3287
8 ай бұрын
Reynard’s hair pisses me off no end.
@AbdulBasit-in7hh
7 ай бұрын
Yep me too I got the same answer as pink top guy
@bmker5469
6 жыл бұрын
I was just about to say that when he butted in.
@Isleofskye
2 ай бұрын
Deserved more views:)
@matthewvarney6214
6 жыл бұрын
He's guessed it, from those clues!
@alphalunamare
6 жыл бұрын
it is as incredible as arithmetic.
@Revelian1982
6 жыл бұрын
A thug life moment if ever there were one!
@Revelian1982
8 ай бұрын
I completely agree.
@stuartashbourne-martin9629
6 жыл бұрын
Sorry to show my ignorance everybody but what is pascals triangle and what uses it from somebody who is severely dyslexic
@Sokrabiades
6 жыл бұрын
Ur'a aunokw, nlb.
@almostfm
6 жыл бұрын
Pascal's triangle is sort of the Swiss Army knife of mathematics. The way the numbers are arranged allows you to find all sorts of other numbers: You can use it to find the Fibonacci numbers (useful in computer algorithms and also shows up in how trees branch), powers of 2 and 11, and perfect squares. It also has applications in fractals and combinatorial math. medium.com/i-math/top-10-secrets-of-pascals-triangle-6012ba9c5e23 has more info, as well as how to construct one.
@stuartashbourne-martin9629
6 жыл бұрын
TheRenaissanceman65 . Sorry I'm dyslexic I'm sure you're very clever but unfortunately I'm dyslexic I should have a degree in interior design that moved mediaeval history sorry I still don't know what pascals triangle actually means and what exactly does it mean today and also does it affect the price of a loaf
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