A selection of the most interesting facts and theories from the crime drama television series Numbers (Numb3rs).
Video with subtitles.
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00:05 Everything is numbers
00:49 Spherical astronomy - how to calculate the location by shadow
01:12 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
01:38 If you fold a paper in half 50 times it would be tall enough to reach the sun
02:07 The principle of the GPS chip in a mobile phone
03:20 Tit for tat ("An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth") --- Game theory
04:35 Why the driven wheels rotate at different speeds?
05:05 Fractal analysis of the signature and identification of forgery
05:45 How is lightning strike made?
06:27 Plagiarism checker
06:47 "The black swan theory" by Nassim Taleb