didn't even notice there weren't any jokes, your maths is entertaining enough

@icrin_

8 жыл бұрын

+AnAngryBanker indeed. i wish the teachers I had explained things like him

@LindenRathen666

8 жыл бұрын

+AnAngryBanker Agreed! Really interesting

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Maths is the main attraction!

@sophialopez8024

5 жыл бұрын

He said "balls" a lot; that was funny.

@RaRa-eu9mw

4 жыл бұрын

@@standupmaths Your maths in this video is incorrect. Please see my comment for an explanation of why. You have assumed the probabilities across different tickets are independent, when they are not.

A long time ago I heard someone say that the National Lottery is a tax on people that are bad at maths. I've always thought it was quite close to the truth.

@stalectos

8 жыл бұрын

+Symon Fobbester i usually hear it called the idiot tax. some people know the math behind it and the slim chance for victory and still play.

@Taurwathwylth

8 жыл бұрын

+Symon Fobbester I guess people who are mediocre at maths think that it is quite close to the truth. But let's take this one notch up. You see, money does not have linear value compared to the amount. Losing the buy-in is almost always insignificant, but winning the jackpot is hugely influential in an average working/middle class person's life. Actually this is something about which Matt should plan an episode. The non-constant value of money with regards to amount, also time, also disastrous outcome.

@stalectos

8 жыл бұрын

Taurwathwylth the problem is the chances of winning the jackpot in your lifetime are very slim. losing the buy in once, twice, maybe even 10 times is insignificant, but if you do the math if there was a 1% chance of winning the jackpot (which the chances are actually significantly lower than but for sake of example lets just go with it) there is a decent chance that you could pay the buy in 100 times and not get a jackpot. in fact with the lotteries odds winning the jackpot could require paying the buy in thousands or tens of thousands of times and there is never a guarantee. if you pay for a lottery ticket once a week for the rest of your life and never win (which is the likely outcome) you have thrown a crap ton of money down the drain for nothing the jackpot is the only thing that could justify the cost and it is extremely improbable that you will ever get it..

@Taurwathwylth

8 жыл бұрын

+stalectos Hehe, that's true, but luckily the value of money is also non-constant with respect to time. You win the jackpot immediately, at one single moment, but you invest the money in small increments, it adds up only during the course of tens of years. These two things are not immediately comparable. Actually you can think about the lottery as something where you take damage in the expected value but accept to pay premium in order to gain variance. This is not much different from paying for insurance! Insurance is actually the opposite in one way, you take damage in the expected value but accept to pay premium in order to reduce variance. Both of these may be completely OK things to do even though they will have negative expected value.

@digitig

5 жыл бұрын

That all assumes that the financial "investment" is the only benefit to playing the lottery. People also get pleasure from the excitement and anticipation of playing, whether they win or lose, and that pleasure has a value too.

Though I like math jokes I love whiteboards (and maths). Please, do make more "Matt Parker explains..." because I found them (at least this one) quite enjoyable and interesting.

@arghlcasey

8 жыл бұрын

+Alejandro Apellido I'm a whiteboard maths fan too!

@alejandronq645

8 жыл бұрын

Richard Casey we'll form an empire

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

I will make sure they are always interesting! At least, to me.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

I will make sure they are always interesting! At least, to me…

@alejandronq645

8 жыл бұрын

standupmaths I'm sure they will

Do more like this! Numberphile is not enough!

@liahsheep

8 жыл бұрын

Brady is not making enough of numberphiles nowadays

@Theraot

8 жыл бұрын

+Luck and some computerphile recently Edit: although that's not brady.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

I'll keep doing Numberphile but these are great for when Brady and I cannot be in the same place at the same time.

@cpOtAto

7 жыл бұрын

Surely if you were in the same place at the same time it would be a gig for Sixty Symbols

@Anvilshock

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making videos WITHOUT Brady. I prefer your simple and non-distracting shooting by leagues over his nauseating and idiotically, purposely, artificially clumsy camera style. As far as I am concerned, you two can be within any proximity in applicable dimensions as permitted by quantum physics all you want, but as soon as it becomes an n>2-some by means of adding his cameras and/or, sanity beware, Sean Riley and his cameras, for the love of all that provides reference points to human senses, please, please, please endeavour to rarefy yourself from such constellation.

I can't speak for anyone else but I quite enjoyed this. It got me thinking about other questions, like how much it affects your odds if you reinvest everything but the bonus ball winnings, because those are rare enough to not affect your odds very much and 50,000 pounds is presumably quite a lot. (Pounds are more than dollars, right?) Anyway, I would definitely watch more of these if they got made, but I think creators should make what they like making so the most important thing is whether you want to do this sometimes or you'd rather focus on the more jokey, goofy stuff. But you do this incredibly well. Also, on a technical note, look into your camera's light settings, they were kinda going all over the place. I don't know how noticeable that is to the average viewer, but as a fellow creator and video editor it was bugging me. I've definitely struggled with stuff like that on my own projects and I still haven't gotten it to fully stop, but figured I'd mention it.

Super entertaining to watch! That's exactly what I'm having in high school right now, and it's exciting seeing it applied to the real-world happenings. Math is so powerful as it can translate so many things to simple and clear representations, and then work with them! Hoping to see more of your videos.

Watched right until the end and really enjoyed it! I think a lot of your subscribers are subscribed because of your personality and the fact that you are excellent at explaining things, so either format is great!

More Matt in whatever way you are willing to deliver.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

Don't make that a challenge…

@Simo.Andreev

8 жыл бұрын

+standupmaths Oh, that should so be a challenge.

@nilen

3 жыл бұрын

Stand-up Maths oh Matt you little pumpkin

Please keep doing this! I'm learning about this stuff in college and this makes so much sense. I totally understand whats going on with a geometric series now. It's nice to watch entertaining educational-like videos for once.

Loved it, I started watching your channel caused I love the enthusiasm for math(s) and this was a call back to that feeling

Do keep doing these videos, even if only occasionally. Hugely enjoyable.

@pedrocavalcanti46

8 жыл бұрын

+Carl Smith Yeah, I agree!

Hey Matt, huuuuge fan of yours, I love your book, your videos, your numberphile stuff, all that, and I absolutely loved this video. Keep this up, and obviously keep up all the other awesome videos you were already doing!

Loved it. Yours is one of a few channels I watch with my 6 year old at bedtime. Please keep making videos, I love that my kids are digging math because of folks like you that make entertaining videos.

This was quite fascinating and I sincerely hope you make more videos like this one, Matt!

This piece of knowledge is worth more than I'd get if I played the lottery

I've enjoyed this video so much, it's pretty fun to see explanations like this. You should continue doing the "Matt Explains" videos. (I'm not saying that your other videos are boring, I also enjoy them, so continue doing both kind of videos) :D

I loved how you got into it Matt, could not turn off the vid until you finished. Not hard to follow at all! Thank you thank you thank you!

You should absolutely continue with Math Explains, super awesome :D

Love these "Matt explains" videos - a new one every so often would be awesome!

I love the full math explanations. In the scenario where we win enough to buy 25,000 more tickets, how do we pick our numbers? It seems like there should be a strategy to cover as many possibilities as we can to maximize how much we can win again.

@rmvdhaak

6 күн бұрын

The numbers you pick do not matter.

This is the best kind of video. I really do wish I could explain basic combinatorics as well as you can. Derivations are so fun to watch!

I actually quite like this video format as well. I learned some things from this one beyond just cute little anecdotes, and you're still very entertaining to watch! This problem seems quite similar to how one might go about calculating the odds in a roleplaying system with iterative rolling rules. Perhaps you could do a video about that sometime? You could start with a relatively simple system, like Shadowrun's, then maybe move up to White Wolf's (the most complicated I know of) for the advanced second half of the video. The latter is a question that has stumped every mathematician I've ever asked who's taken a crack at it. To state the problems reasonably formally... Shadowrun: -Roll a number of d6's based on the character's skill and attribute ratings summed, typically between 2 and 18, with a mean somewhere around 6. -A number of successes is required to accomplish a given task, typically anywhere from 1 for a near-trivial task, to perhaps 10 for an extremely difficult task. -A result on a given die of 4, 5, or 6, is a "hit". -A 6 (in the case I'm interested in, in which a point of "Edge" is spent to change the roll to the non-trivial open-ended version) adds another new die to the roll, which can then iterate infinitely. -If the roll succeeds, but with more than half of the dice showing a 1, the result is a "glitch"; the task succeeds, but with some little thing gone awry. (For example, the character hits his target with a gun, but the gun fails to eject the cartridge properly and thus jams). -If the roll fails, and more than half of the dice show a 1, it's a "critical glitch" and the gamemaster gets to have fun. ;) So, what is the probability of rolling a success of target number of hits H, and optionally (since it seems far more trivial), of rolling a glitch or critical clitch as well. White Wolf: -Roll a number of d10's based on the character's skill and attribute ratings summed, generally between 2 and 12. -A number of successes is again required to succeed, in a task, as determined by the game master. -The target number on each die that counts as a success is also determined by the game master in this case. -As before, a 10 results in a die added to the roll, which can interate infinitely. -This time though, a 1 actually subtracts from the number of successes. -If there are any 1's left over after a failure, it's a critical failure and something Very Bad (tm) happens. If there are 1's with no successes whatsoever, on any of the dice, it's even worse. So, what is the probability this time of rolling a success of target number of hits H and per-die threshold T, in this system which can iterate in both directions? It seems very similar to this new lottery system, and I'd be curious to see what you think of it.

I think a mixture of both types of videos are great, keep it up! You should do Matt Explains differentials and integrals and Matt Explains tensor maths next!

i loved this video "matt parker explains" videos are generally more understandable for me compared to the others as i think this one went at a slower pace but i also love the other videos i just love every video you make you are awesome!

I liked this Matt Explains, so I'd love to see more of them.

Please make more of these explanation videos. I always asked my professors during undergrad how what we were learning could be applied to real world situations, and too often I was told it couldn't yet, or that it was for engineers later to figure that out. Thus, naturally, videos like this satisfy that side of my intellectual curiosity.

I'm a maths teacher in York and I talked about your first video with my year 11 class today as we started revision of probability for their mocks. keep it up! this was cool ;)

Excellent, more Matt Explains please. There are lots of maths videos that out there but few that capture the joy of mathematics as well as this. Thanks R

That was well presented. You kept it moving, jargon free, and the matter didn't require too much domain knowledge. Also, the content was relevant to a current real-world situation - very important to allow viewers to see an application.

I like both styles of videos. Thanks for taking your time to make this.

Please do more of these. Really interesting stuff!!

16:12 made me laugh so much, "What am I saying? I can write it on the board." I did enjoyed the entire video, so please continue making Matt Explains

This was excellent, I hope you keep the "Matt Explains" thing going!

I really loved this Matt Explains, hope to see more of them. Greetings from Chile!

I'd love to see more like this, I love when you all go into more depth in Numberphile so I'd like to see how well you do on your own.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

I'll keep doing Numberphile of course. But this means I can maths-out even more.

Big problem being that you still have a 9/10 chance of not winning anything from your first play, thereby canceling any additional winnings thereafter. Love your videos matt, keep it up, thanks for the maths themed entertainment.

I thought I followed you pretty well throughout. Then came the summation. I noticed that both the Free Games and Buy Games odds ended in 99, when my inner Gump was suddenly seized by a brain cramp. Yup. That's the bit that got me. It was followed by a strong desire to retrace my maths history far into the past. ... I'm wondering if perhaps I never really gave thumb-sucking a proper go. !O.o! -Phill, Las Vegas (Pulling your leg, of course. You boggle the mind, Matt, but with such precision that my mind truly doesn't mind. Always a pleasure, sir. Carry on.)

This kind of videos is really enjoying to watch as well now and then, I'd say keep doing them! :)

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks! But I'll keep them to a combination of "now" and "then".

Definitely more Matt explains videos. I like both formats.

love Matt explains and the Jones. great channel!

I loved it Matt, good stuff :) Thanks for the insight

I know I'm 3 years late, but, I think, of course you should continue with you "Matt explains". I love that channel

I loved this video and I'm pretty sure we're doing choose functions in my math class tomorrow. Thanks for the help!

You should do more of these as they are very interesting. Coincidentally, this is a similar topic to the a level stats work I was doing earlier and your way of explaining it is very clear.

I really liked this video, and I'd love to see more! Great job as always!

Loved it Matt! Love watching maths videos that actually show maths :)

Fantastic! Keep doing them, Matt.

Great video Matt! Keep them coming.

Matt, you should do more of this! This was awesome!

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

I shall!

Great video! Love the Matt Explains idea

Love it. I used to think I was good at math, then I watched you. This stuff is really fascinating

These videos are nice! As an engineering student, I like to go deeper in the maths behind your videos! Keep up the good work1

I loved the video Matt, great job! Quite intuitive really, funny I never thought of it (:

15:20 This was great. Thank you so much for making this video. Please do more of these!

yeah, please make more of those videos! I loved it.

Keep doing both Matt! Variety is the spice of life :)

this was excellent...you do a great job explaining concepts like this. I like when people relate math to common or "real world" things.

This was a great Matt explains, do more!!!

do more of matt explains! math is always nice, in any shape or form

Matt, I love these Matt-Explaines video! Please keep'em comming for us Hardcore-people :D

This was a very well explained video, Matt. Keep them comming. :)

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

That is a very nice comment, Oliver. I will.

Quick question, Why are your videos not monetized? You deserve that and more! Your videos are amazing!

Your presentation skills are just the right mix of crazy geek and warm human :) I followed this all the way I think because I like probability and knew the Lottery odds to be very off putting. However, human logic shows that someone will win and you "gotta be in it to win it" ........... but betting on a random horse in any race would probably mean more return, given no chance of millions of your local currency. Its enough to put me off. I am not a gambler, so the Lottery was just a Saturday morning thing while buying the weekend paper, when I used to do that Love your work and I have a few popular maths books including Simon Singh's and Adam Spencer

i wish you were my maths teacher, i love hearing you explain al lthe fun parts of maths rather than just "heres what you need for the test because the school says so"

Great video, Matt! Probability rocks!

I did watch the whole video, I did enjoy it, and I do want to see more. Maybe for Matt Explains videos we could suggest things we'd like to have you work out?

I’m so glad that content like this exists

The tricks of math, the nomenclature, heck even the history of the symbolism which led to the deeper discoveries of abstraction. All good ideas to explain. Some people just like to solve problems, and they need real world applications to wrap their minds around what the math is used for. So, yes please do more of both.

Oh wow, that explanation of the hypergeometric distribution was astonishingly clear. I never learned it that way, but it makes so much sense if you think of it like that.

@SpySappingMyKeyboard

8 жыл бұрын

+Nixitur This is not hypergeometric, just plain old geometric series.

@Nixitur

8 жыл бұрын

+SpySappingMyKeyboard You clearly didn't read my comment since I didn't mention series at all. Or you did read my comment, but are completely ignorant about distributions.

Good stuff. I like this new format. The usual way is great too but this is a nice change of pace.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

I'd like to change the pace up across different types of video.

I'd love more Matt Explains videos occasionally!

I loved this :) Please do more when you can, it's brilliant

Hey, people had a chance to stop watching before the end and make a comment asking for less math-science and more jokes. I doubt many if any did. I like the mix, keep it up!

I think a mix is good. Some very funny vids, with little thinking involved (for when our brain tired), some in the middle with a bit of humor and a bit of thinking, and some like this where you explain how things work out. Actually I'm glad you went into the mechanisms of how the numbers are selected. When I watched your first vid, 45 million seemed way too low, and I calculated 59^6 = 42 billion because I didn't realize numbers couldn't be repeated.

Matt Explains should definitely become a thing in the future!

To address the question you ended with, I say you continue doing both! I like the jokey stuff, but also the more in depth videos. It's a good mix.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

That is a good point! Don't worry: the joke-based videos will continue. I just wanted to check if people would like a parallel stream of more-mathsy ones.

I loved this video! Please do more! Of course I like your other jokey videos too, but this series will be really good when it continues! (Hint hint) :)

I love this! Math explains is brilliant!!

This is brilliant ! You definetly should do more !

While I am certain these style videos will have less broad of an appeal, I think they can be great educational tools. You are far more entertaining even without jokes than my maths professors. I would totally say it is worth it to do more Matt Explains videos should you find the right subject. Thank you.

love the old video format, but i love this video format as well! :) I feel like you should do a combination of both! :D

This was awesome! I'd love to see more stuff like this.

This video was certainly interesting and I hope that you make more of them.

Definitely would like to see some more of these. I normally don't like maths but this is strangely interesting and I'd love to see more

Matt is so awesome, loved the video

I would like more of these! I love pretty much all of the content, but explanations like these satisfies another part of my brain than maths jokes do. Going to send an e-mail later with a question that isn't too dumb I hope!

Just finished Humble Pi...it's really good. I knew probably half of the stories in there but love the character and pace of the writing. Unfortunately MP chickens out of giving a strat for lottery numbers. And I figured one out when I was in school. Surely go for a set that people choose the least frequently so that when it's a winner it's more more likely that you are not sharing the prize. So avoid all numbers under 32 (especially under 13) and avoid numbers in sequences (like squares, primes, cubes, Lost bunker sequence) and multiples of 5.

I love these videos, Matt. While I love your jokey stuff, I also love this more lecture-style video. I would have been absolutely thrilled to have taken a college math course with you as my professor.

Matt Parker Explains. It's a winner for me !

I loved this, I would love more of these. Especially loong videos :D

More please! That was awesome!

That was awesome! I think you should do more like this.

You make the maths fun! Please keep them up!!

Please do more of these, it was very interesting!

Loved the video. Just learning stats this semester. I'd definitely watch more like it.

Keep up the Matt Explains!

Loved it! Please make more of these :)

loved it!!! keep doing it Matt!!!!

I like the format. Thanks!

Loved it! Do more of these!