The Dollar Game - Numberphile

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  • @burkeysvids
    @burkeysvids5 жыл бұрын

    Something I love about Numberphile is that the subject matter experts are always so passionate in presenting these things - you can really tell that they love what they do.

  • @VideoFacio

    @VideoFacio

    5 жыл бұрын

    You do know what the -phile suffix means, right?

  • @PaulSzkibik

    @PaulSzkibik

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@VideoFacio A bit too much snark here, my dude. He can still voice his appreciation and just because something a has label, doesn't mean that the label is accurate. In this case, yeah the channelname really does reflect the content. I Invite you to guess what the channel "FrameWhisperer" ist about and how the content of that channel connects to its name.

  • @jaypi6423

    @jaypi6423

    2 жыл бұрын

    You gotta love what you do, if you write on a carton paper with a marker

  • @Triantalex

    @Triantalex

    7 ай бұрын

    false.

  • @tomatoanus
    @tomatoanus5 жыл бұрын

    numberphile and drawing on brown paper. name a more iconic duo.

  • @peachout6227

    @peachout6227

    5 жыл бұрын

    Matt and his Parker Square Cliff Stoll and his Klein Bottle James Grime and his singing banana

  • @climatixseuche

    @climatixseuche

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me and Holly

  • @halulife35

    @halulife35

    5 жыл бұрын

    peanut butter and jelly

  • @Banan_Gutten

    @Banan_Gutten

    5 жыл бұрын

    Fitz-Simmons

  • @jordanmoseley3019

    @jordanmoseley3019

    5 жыл бұрын

    tomatoanus and speedrunning

  • @JJ-kl7eq
    @JJ-kl7eq5 жыл бұрын

    As a pessimist I prefer to play the deficit spending game where all vertices have to have a negative number

  • @vizionthing

    @vizionthing

    5 жыл бұрын

    are you a banker?

  • @JJ-kl7eq

    @JJ-kl7eq

    5 жыл бұрын

    I can be. I envision the cue ball and and target ball as forming a vertex and normally just go for a straight shot. I can bank it, but only if there’s nothing less tricky available.

  • @karthiknaicker8216

    @karthiknaicker8216

    5 жыл бұрын

    Multiply all vertices by -1 to get the pessimist's version?

  • @WaltRBuck

    @WaltRBuck

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh, you're a politician.

  • @drmontorsi7498

    @drmontorsi7498

    5 жыл бұрын

    Keynes would be proud

  • @marcusprice3199
    @marcusprice31994 жыл бұрын

    I love they way Holly is so happy and enthusiastic about what she does. It's great, I'm sure it's easier to learn from someone who has this enthusiasm.

  • @Rgmenkera
    @Rgmenkera5 жыл бұрын

    Somebody should make an app of this game

  • @AntonioNoack

    @AntonioNoack

    5 жыл бұрын

    Working on it :D, will be usable in a few hours I think. (idk yet exactly how long it'll take XD)

  • @aner_bda

    @aner_bda

    5 жыл бұрын

    Would love to play this game if you get it working.

  • @stefanhrvatski9152

    @stefanhrvatski9152

    5 жыл бұрын

    This comment is only here, so youtube informs me, when you write again.

  • @chandir7752

    @chandir7752

    5 жыл бұрын

    Surprisingly there is no app with the name "the dollar game" yet.

  • @jeanotzubler2477

    @jeanotzubler2477

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@AntonioNoack yes please

  • @WTFPr0m
    @WTFPr0m5 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only person who wants a 5+ hour video on the full, complicated explanation of winnable games? I doubt I'd even understand it, but I'm just too damn curious now.

  • @raphielohnef4678

    @raphielohnef4678

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'd love that, too :)

  • @yungacid1

    @yungacid1

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're not alone.

  • @samarendra109

    @samarendra109

    5 жыл бұрын

    Who would be able to sit for straight five hours . May be a series with videos of 20 minutes each a better option . (Something that 3BluesOneBrown does)

  • @stefan1024

    @stefan1024

    5 жыл бұрын

    At some level you start comparing it to other equivalent math problems and then it gets very abstract.

  • @stefan1024

    @stefan1024

    5 жыл бұрын

    it never is. :)

  • @lystic9392
    @lystic93925 жыл бұрын

    I love the 30 seconds of confusion.

  • @ninjaforest
    @ninjaforest5 жыл бұрын

    The genus gives you the minimum number of cycles that you can find in the graph. If the genus is 0 then you have a tree. In a tree you can always use the leaves to push back the dollars in the tree, without having to lose a dollar. In a cycled graph you may have leaves that have the same property, but for every cycle you have to leave a dollar behind.

  • @Ninja9191
    @Ninja91915 жыл бұрын

    I love it when Amy Adams explains stuff!

  • @oncedidactic

    @oncedidactic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol it’s true though. Holly should play the mathematician hero in the next scifi film adaption of a Ted Chiang story like Arrival.

  • @Dmlaney

    @Dmlaney

    5 жыл бұрын

    Holly is gorgeous

  • @wolfelkan8183

    @wolfelkan8183

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kangaroo

  • @PartScavenger

    @PartScavenger

    5 жыл бұрын

    Except Holly is way better looking than Amy Adams.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    AmySplaining (TM) FTW :-)

  • @dannyg1812
    @dannyg18125 жыл бұрын

    Thats NumberWang!

  • @Diditallforthexp

    @Diditallforthexp

    5 жыл бұрын

    35! 8! -4! 639!

  • @elemenopi9239

    @elemenopi9239

    5 жыл бұрын

    122L!

  • @jam8munch811

    @jam8munch811

    5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @blazeitup420

    @blazeitup420

    5 жыл бұрын

    let's rotate the bored!

  • @dannyg1812

    @dannyg1812

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thats WangerNumb.

  • @hugolabs
    @hugolabs5 жыл бұрын

    See, this is what I love about math! This is the first time I've heard about a 'genus' in math context. I immediately thought about Euler's polygon formula: V - E + F = 2. The fact that you have similar tools/viewpoints/frames for both cases (polygons and graphs) is (amongst other things ) what maths is about. I love it!

  • @ChristianoMDSilva
    @ChristianoMDSilva5 жыл бұрын

    I'm all in for a series of videos or huge video with the full explanation and information they've got so far!

  • @dattanandraykar
    @dattanandraykar5 жыл бұрын

    I am a simple man. I see holly, I press like and then watch the video

  • @RafaelMarcF22

    @RafaelMarcF22

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am much more complicated. I see holly, i press like and pause the video.

  • @wolfelkan8183
    @wolfelkan81835 жыл бұрын

    The graph has 87 vertices and 165 edges, giving it a genus of 79. The normal version has 113 dollars total and is definitely winnable (I found a solution in 195 moves). The secret version that flashes up for one frame has the same layout but only 22 dollars. This is less than the genus and probably not winnable.

  • @ruukinen

    @ruukinen

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'd assume it's one of those special cases where it actually is winnable. There would be no reason to flash it on the screen otherwise.

  • @niclaskristiansen9533
    @niclaskristiansen95335 жыл бұрын

    Yes, one of my favorite persons on this channel!

  • @WilliamKibirango
    @WilliamKibirango4 жыл бұрын

    This channel is doing an amazing public service! I love it!

  • @c.james1
    @c.james15 жыл бұрын

    Back to back Hannah then Holly? Brady, your spoiling us!

  • @takatotakasui8307

    @takatotakasui8307

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hey, he's the one who gets to make the visits. I'm sure he's thanking us.

  • @Theo_Caro

    @Theo_Caro

    5 жыл бұрын

    Guys, I'm fairly certain both Hannah and Holly are married. Please lay off. We get it; they're pretty. Let's get back to math.

  • @argh1989

    @argh1989

    5 жыл бұрын

    +Theo_Caro Uh, I'm fairly certain the fact that they're married or otherwise taken is irrelevant to those who admire them. Oh and they're not just pretty.

  • @kumquatmagoo

    @kumquatmagoo

    5 жыл бұрын

    We don't come here for maths, nerd.

  • @TileBitan

    @TileBitan

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@kumquatmagoo xdddddd

  • @ferrariscuderia4290
    @ferrariscuderia42903 жыл бұрын

    1:10 "and the goal of the game is to make sure everyone is out of debt." Keynesian economists have left the chat!

  • @banger107

    @banger107

    2 жыл бұрын

    what do keynesian "economists" know, anyway?

  • @lindhe
    @lindhe5 жыл бұрын

    I really really liked this video. It got me think of the properties that such a network would have. Thanks!

  • @daniellovick1546
    @daniellovick15465 жыл бұрын

    At 7:21 if you watch very carefully or change the playback speed the graph changes

  • @rasowa2958

    @rasowa2958

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice catch. More precisely, almost all 8's and 7's turn into 0's, except one 8 turns into 2, one 8 stays, one 7 stays.

  • @thumper8684
    @thumper86845 жыл бұрын

    This is sort of related. If you have a house party and you are putting out snacks how many snacks to you put in each room? In a mathematically perfect house party with totally random and unbiased guests you simply have to count the doors. Your guest will wander from room to room, picking any exit at random. After a while the distribution of guests will reach an equilibrium. It turns out this is stable when the number of guest in each room is proportional to the number of doors. So count the doors and put that many snacks in each room.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    WAT?!!?11??!! ;-)

  • @atrumluminarium
    @atrumluminarium5 жыл бұрын

    We definitely need a part 2. Maybe a proof on Numberphile2?

  • @atrumluminarium

    @atrumluminarium

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's the spirit ;)

  • @Stormgebieder
    @Stormgebieder5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your passion.

  • @Pedro999Paulo
    @Pedro999Paulo5 жыл бұрын

    this is the best numberphile video, its not just entertainer and educational like most of other I also learn a new game, so I can be still entertained after the video end

  • @LionidasL10
    @LionidasL105 жыл бұрын

    This woman has a lovely laugh. She seems fun.

  • @HammerandNeil
    @HammerandNeil5 жыл бұрын

    Someone needs to make this an app! It would be a very fun game. Should be pretty simple to program.

  • @clarencechew3971
    @clarencechew39715 жыл бұрын

    For any subset of vertices, consider the edges joining a vertex in the subset and a vertex not in the subset. It is always possible to send one dollar into the subset or out of this subset through these edges by either using all the vertices in the subset, or using all the vertices not in the subset. If there is a bridge can be used to cut a problem satisfying the E-V+1 bound into 2 problems satisfying their E-V+1 bounds. Hence, we can assume there are no bridges. That solves all trees. We can try to induct on the genus, E-V+1. Clearly, it is always possible when the genus is 0, as it is a tree. Suppose a solution is possible for every graph with certain genus g. Then, consider a graph with genus g+1. Ignore 1 edge and one dollar to reduce the genus (say edge from a to b, WLOG dollar on a) and pretend to solve the problem. What this does is that now, we can guarantee: 1. All vertices except possibly a, b, have nonnegative value. 2. As we used the edge between a and b some number of net times, their sum will still be nonnegative, in particular, we have value of a + value of b >= 1 (due to the ignored dollar). WLOG, value of a >= 2 and value of b

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    *somehow*... I think you need to be a little more explicit in step N... :-/

  • @richardpg2704
    @richardpg27042 ай бұрын

    another great show, thanks to both of you, have a great evening.

  • @Kazutoification
    @Kazutoification5 жыл бұрын

    According to my calculations, there are 163 edges (a straight line connecting two vertices), 87 vertices (the round endpoints), and the sum of money on the board is $105. Given the circumstances for some games, as mentioned in the video, this game should be winnable, given that $105 > 163-87+1. I'll brute force this and see if it actually is winnable, though.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy numbercrunching Billennium to your Pascal cores.... :-/

  • @HMR_Sekai

    @HMR_Sekai

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Kazutoification are you done yet? :x

  • @Torchman-
    @Torchman-4 жыл бұрын

    That 30 seconds of confusion seemed like an eternity.

  • @SmileyMPV
    @SmileyMPV5 жыл бұрын

    You can reduce this to an ILP problem, but that is NP hard. Let your variables be per vertex the amount of times you claim money (for example: 3 claim moves and 5 give moves will make the variable 3-5=-2, so this can be negative) The constraints are simple per vertex: starting money + amount of neighbors * variable - sum of variables of neighbors >= 0

  • @erichopper4979
    @erichopper49795 жыл бұрын

    You could make a graph of all the possible moves you could make. Each edge is a move, each vertex is a game state. That gives you a tool for analyzing the game. You're looking for the shortest path from your game state to a winning game state. In the move graph you'll always have as many edges for each node as the number of nodes in the graph being analyzed. The number of nodes will be infinite.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    How many PetaBytes in *your* rig then?

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Prove it :-)

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    At least you're thinking... :-)

  • @erichopper4979

    @erichopper4979

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm not nearly so excellent a mathemtician as Holly Krieger. :-) I mostly dabble in it as a side-interest and also to be better at writing software.

  • @lamintouray7386
    @lamintouray73864 жыл бұрын

    It got my head spinning like a centrifuge.

  • @BryonLape
    @BryonLape5 жыл бұрын

    When I see a video with either Holly or Hannah in the thumbnail, I click. I really don'y care what they are discussing. I'll listen.

  • @columbus8myhw
    @columbus8myhw5 жыл бұрын

    Two things: a) Order of the moves doesn't matter b) In planar graphs, the genus is the number of faces

  • @tinynewtman
    @tinynewtman5 жыл бұрын

    My argument for this partial solution is the following: When a graph has a genus of zero, then that graph has zero cycles in it (i.e. no sections that form a loop). Increasing the number of vertices in a contiguous graph will still keep the genus at zero, because for the graph to remain contiguous you need to add a single edge that connects the new vertex to part of the existing graph. Thus, we can only increase the genus of a graph by creating cycles inside it. As we saw with a three-vertex cycle, any operation in that cycle will have three adjustments in value: prime node loses 2, and the two adjacent nodes gain 1 each; alternatively, the prime node gains 2, and the two adjacent nodes lose 1 each. The smallest possible amount of excess money we can have is 0 (example: a=-1 -> b=2 -> c=-1 -> a). If it was (a=-2 -> b=-2 -> c=0 -> a), then this would be unsolvable, because the distribution of negative or positive values will never be even enough to allow for it. If we add a single dollar to any of the nodes, though, then it becomes easily solvable. That dollar has to come from somewhere though; imagine it being a node outside the cycle, (d=1 -> a). If we had d push this extra dollar into the graph, then it would be solvable, because d can immediately give back any dollars it gets to a. If we added a second node, (d -> c), then it becomes unsolvable again, because you don't have the extra value to pass around. You need to add an extra dollar to d, so that it can still pass its value in to a and participate. With this in mind, my suggestion is that you can validate if a graph is guaranteed solvable by removing nodes until you reach a minimum coverage graph, where each node is reachable through every other node with exactly one path. Each time you remove a node, you need to remove one dollar from a node. If you still have a net positive value at the end of this, then you are guaranteed to be able to solve this graph. As for checking if a graph is impossible to solve, I have no clue.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    tl;dr: You have no clue?

  • @RadioactiveLobster
    @RadioactiveLobster5 жыл бұрын

    A Holly Krieger video right after a Hannah Fry video? Christmas came early!

  • @neilwilson5785

    @neilwilson5785

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's called Christmas and a birthday at once in the UK.

  • @flyguy000

    @flyguy000

    5 жыл бұрын

    ...if he can get them both in the same video, I think it'd break the internet! :-D

  • @agiar2000

    @agiar2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@neilwilson5785 My maternal grandmother's birthday literally _is_ Christmas. :)

  • @aaronbyrd420

    @aaronbyrd420

    3 жыл бұрын

    And so did I!

  • @peterboyford9673

    @peterboyford9673

    3 жыл бұрын

    OMG 😍

  • @edudey
    @edudey5 жыл бұрын

    Seeing ppl comment on the "redistributive" element of this game makes me want to ask: has anyone ever characterized economic models such as "socialism" or "laissez faire capitalism" or "crony capitalism" or "communism" etc. mathematically via graph theory? Cuz this video seems like EXACTLY the right place/way to start...

  • @Xezlec

    @Xezlec

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think the subject you're looking for is economics. The whole point of that subject is to study the mathematics of the aggregate behavior of economic actors in those kinds of scenarios.

  • @obvious_humor

    @obvious_humor

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you're looking for a basic analogy, then it'd be like this: Capitalism is structured so that the most-connected nodes gain the most value, as long as they pay less than the value they receive. These nodes would be the bosses and CEOs and landlords and other rent-seekers. Social democracy would try to redistribute the value from these concentrated nodes back to the mass nodes, but the whole process would be inefficient and take a long time to complete, and it also wouldn't prevent a re-accumulation because the graph system is still inherently tilted in favor of the highly-connected, lowly-paying nodes. Simply raising the pay rate isn't enough to solve the systemic issue. Socialism would fundamentally change the graph system and even aim to abolish it entirely. One way of doing so would be to erase every single edge in the graph, create one large node in the center, and draw edges from that node to every other node; all value would be distributed from the central node. At that point, the distinction would be entirely in *how* that value is dispensed from that central node.

  • @chipblock2854
    @chipblock28544 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of using the Critical Path Method to solving a flow issue between various processes in manufacturing, etc. Usually the CPM is used in relationship to time.

  • @thumper8684
    @thumper86845 жыл бұрын

    I guess the solution involves vector addition. Each move is reversible, so you can start with zero dollars at each vertex and work backwards from there. For every point you have two operations. One is to add n to the vertex and subtract 1 from each of it's neighbours. The other is it's reverse. This whole setup is like adding and subtracting vectors. It does not matter what order you add the vectors in. You only have to count how many times you add each vector, and multiply that vector by this number. Because the process is reversible you can also subtract the same vector, which is the same as multiplying by a negative. You can visualize this for the three vertex case. Label each vertex (x,y,z). The vectors are +/- (-2,1,1),(1,-2,1) and (1,1,-2). If you do the first one 3 times and the second -2 times, you get (-8,7,1).

  • @thumper8684

    @thumper8684

    5 жыл бұрын

    There are algorithms that can solve this sort of problem for indiscrete numbers. I don't know if they would be applicable to this problem.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dunno... what are said algorithms? What do their respective literature say about applicability? ...

  • @fome53
    @fome535 жыл бұрын

    This was so interesting, not sure if I could design games well enough for my students to try. Also, I think I just fell in love XD

  • @darts421
    @darts4215 жыл бұрын

    I’d love to seen some proofs for this. Graph theory games are really interesting.

  • @markfrellips5633
    @markfrellips56334 жыл бұрын

    That's a very interesting introduction to some graph theory characterization!

  • @omafalk443
    @omafalk443 Жыл бұрын

    Here the case is clear: We have a subgraph with nodes -1 and -2 which has debts of 3 Dollars. It is -2 to get Dollars. It will do so 1 time and also 3 will give one time. Now the subgraph is to be balanced and the node with 3 needs toget one from 2. We have to distribute within the subgraph which takes 2 further takes from the leave. 5 steps are minimum.

  • @elliotvernon7971
    @elliotvernon79715 жыл бұрын

    Is the brown paper a mathmo thing, an MIT thing or do you record this next to the postal department?

  • @kaiserauthoria

    @kaiserauthoria

    4 жыл бұрын

    recyclable etc

  • @thermotronica
    @thermotronica5 жыл бұрын

    You can use a little knot theory to come up with the vertices outlining the knots, and the crossovers would govern the + or - by direction. Snap pea program will show the characteristics of the knot, while the direction and vertices dictate the sums. The overall balance isn't important because the directionality of the process of exchange will show the problem areas (vertices that light up the most) as a probability spectrum of possible connections which would imply the number of vertices per unit is a function of the length to complete a cycle, not balance out the "budget". Once cycled the unlit areas will be the isolated Islands of incomplete transactions, aka the crossovers, or genus, of the outlayed knots that replaced the vertices. Maybe some dehn twist to show an anti correlation at the complex arena, possibly showing why extra routes may inhibit whole areas from even participating. Excuse the vagueness

  • @BarneyIX
    @BarneyIX4 жыл бұрын

    I apologize if this is mentioned already but if you donate money you don't have you're borrowing money from another entity unless you can create money. So your solution in the first example where the point that went from -1 to -4 is either something like the Federal Reserve that creates money, or that move violates the game rules as it utilized a verticie that is not listed on your paper graph. Also, typically borrowing money comes at a premium rarely do you see 0% loans, so that node would likely owe MORE than what they gave.

  • @Fenrakk101
    @Fenrakk1015 жыл бұрын

    The genus/sum connection is about how much control you have over dividing up the money. A graph with very few connections means you have more control over how the money moves around; after all, a vertex connected to only one other vertex gives you absolute control over where you send the money, because you can always give or take from a specific vertex. The more highly connected the graph is, the more spare cash you need, because you aren't able to divide it amongst the vertices as evenly as you would like. I suspect that's an accurate and more straightforward explanation of the genus/dollar connection.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bit like a bank really eh...

  • @seanm7445
    @seanm74455 жыл бұрын

    Alternate way to win: - Screw your neighbours - Take the money and run

  • @mikeguitar9769

    @mikeguitar9769

    5 жыл бұрын

    Go on, take the money and run, Whoohoohoo!

  • @billsemenoff

    @billsemenoff

    5 жыл бұрын

    ...and the graph theory remains unchanged! This is what I love about real math.

  • @livedandletdie

    @livedandletdie

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nathan-DTS that's not capitalism, though... because capitalism is the mutual benefit of goods and services being exchanged.

  • @eideticex

    @eideticex

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Major. That's the theory, sadly practice has revealed aspects of capitalism that probably merit an evolution investigation to bring us a more updated definition so that we are all on the same page.

  • @lavamatstudios

    @lavamatstudios

    5 жыл бұрын

    +The Major A starving orphan "benefits" from being taken as a slave by a plantation owner. Capitalism involves the same kind of "mutual benefit." It's fundamentally asymmetric and exploitative. It relies on system of property relations that can't be rationally agreed to by a large chunk of the population.

  • @sengchamrong5993
    @sengchamrong59935 жыл бұрын

    But is there a way to figure out whether it is COMEBACKABLE?

  • @GhoshA
    @GhoshA5 жыл бұрын

    A very good video, after a long time lap.

  • @Ajoscram
    @Ajoscram5 жыл бұрын

    This is such a cool game for a small programming challenge!

  • @nymalous3428
    @nymalous34285 жыл бұрын

    I do like math games. This one seems like it has some possibilities. I wonder if there's an application for this in game theory...

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    y'think? Or in name-dropping... ?

  • @alexanderpoth9995
    @alexanderpoth99955 жыл бұрын

    Has there been research on this game? I was trying to find some literature on this, but I only ended up with the Auction Theory Dollar Bidding Game. Some more in depth theory about this would be very interesting!

  • @dalek2538

    @dalek2538

    5 жыл бұрын

    Try looking up chip firing on graphs.

  • @stevethecatcouch6532

    @stevethecatcouch6532

    5 жыл бұрын

    There is a link in the description to Matt Baker's blog. Baker is co-author of the paper in which the winning criteria are proved. In his blog there is a link to his joint paper from 2007.

  • @code-cave

    @code-cave

    5 жыл бұрын

    I actually took an entire course on the subject! Look up Matt Baker or the book Divisors and Sandpiles: An Introduction to Chip-Firing by Scott Corry and D. Perkinson

  • @ElCeceh

    @ElCeceh

    5 жыл бұрын

    As a computer scientist, since we rely a lot on graph theory and algorithmic complexity computation, I wonder if anyone may have referred to such works to improve performance of multicore computation, since it can be seen as a problem of fairly distributing work among workers (pre-requisite being for tasks not being mutually dependent - think scalar chips like GPUs maybe). Since the overall computation time would amount to the node/vertice with the highest value, optimising would reduce the global computation time. However the way to compute the optimal distribution seems pretty complicated and may often take longer than the computation itself... I’m pretty sure there should be references in the field. I’ll have to look it up :) And the same kind of problem could also be considered with parallel factory work I guess, or in biology with cells or ants maybe, so other fields may have worked on the topic too...

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    SIGARCH Sub time 4 U!!!11!! :-)

  • @DavePawson
    @DavePawson4 жыл бұрын

    Another proof that mathematics isn't dull (Can be fun!). Thanks Holly.

  • @camfunme
    @camfunme5 жыл бұрын

    After 20 minutes of scribbling on a whiteboard I have found that: 1. The least dollars that can travel in a closed loop at a time, is equal to the least connected vertex in that loop. e.g. in the triangle graph, the least connected vertex has 2 edges; i.e. >= $2 must move in that loop at a time. 2. A loop is solvable if it has enough spare money to move in the loop less $1 (since a 1 connected vertex is not a loop). e.g. in the triangle loop, since >= $2 must move at a time, and there is a spare $1, every 2x + 1 value can be reached. note: some loops may be solvable without any spare $dollars as they may coincide with the minimum movable value (xth value). 3. A graph is a collection of connected loops, therefore a graph is solvable if all its loops are i.e. if it's most connect loop is. i.e. A graph is solvable if the least connected vertex of the most connected loop - $1 is >= the spare $dollars on the graph. 4. The genus of a graph is always >= the least connected vertex of the most connected loop, therefore it will always be solvable. 5. By this logic, large graphs are more likely to be solvable, as they tend to have proportionally less edges per vertex. i.e. size does not equal complexity. Although they may take longer to solve...

  • @seventeeen29
    @seventeeen295 жыл бұрын

    I think I may have just found what I am going to write my dissertation on next year. Some opportunities for some programming and some pure maths!

  • @flyingpenandpaper6119

    @flyingpenandpaper6119

    4 жыл бұрын

    How is the dissertation writing going? :-)

  • @maxximumb
    @maxximumb5 жыл бұрын

    That would make a really nice casual game for mobiles.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sssshhh!!

  • @irusvzi

    @irusvzi

    5 жыл бұрын

    some guy in the comments made it into an app

  • @maxmusterman3371
    @maxmusterman33715 жыл бұрын

    more of this! I demand

  • @maxmusterman3371

    @maxmusterman3371

    5 жыл бұрын

    this ginger wonder

  • @kurtschatteman5193
    @kurtschatteman51935 жыл бұрын

    NICE !!!! It would make for a game that is really fun to play and not that difficult to program (the logic that is). The more I think about it the more I recognize the brilliance of the rules. Who invented those rules? Simple/Straight/Exact ... you just have to love it. The number equivalent to Tetris.

  • @abhijitborah
    @abhijitborah5 жыл бұрын

    7:16, lovely laughter, besides being a great video.

  • @floheissler2336
    @floheissler23364 жыл бұрын

    Amy Adams is so versatile! Great actress, beautiful and also smart!

  • @michaelerickson985

    @michaelerickson985

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is not Amy Adams. That is the mathematician, Holly Krieger.

  • @Randy_McShandy
    @Randy_McShandy5 жыл бұрын

    You might be interested in the math behind the card game Spot It; simple premise with some really interesting math behind it. A bit much to explain but the math behind it is crazy

  • @guitar81sb
    @guitar81sb3 жыл бұрын

    The case of a specific connectivity preventing a graph/system from being reaching a unique optimal configuration also occurs in physics.

  • @fuseteam
    @fuseteam5 жыл бұрын

    Numberphile you should tottaly do a video on spinors vectors and tensors! tidbit about a spinor is that rotating it 360 degrees does not return it to its original position, yet rotating it 720 does! eventhough 720=2×360!

  • @Xezlec

    @Xezlec

    5 жыл бұрын

    There are already videos on that. The "belt trick" is the classic illustration. The right way to think about it is that it's the spinor's relationship with the phases of its neighbors that changes after one rotation, not so much anything "internal" to the spinor itself, so it's not as strange as it sounds. The belt trick video shows how those "connections" get "twisted" after one rotation and "untwisted" after another.

  • @Xomage999
    @Xomage9995 жыл бұрын

    In a perfect world dollar stores would offer puzzles to customers that if worked out and proved solvable/unsolvable they could get dollar discounts on their dollar items.

  • @smurfyday

    @smurfyday

    5 жыл бұрын

    The perfect world doesn't have dollar stores.

  • @caenir

    @caenir

    5 жыл бұрын

    My city doesn't really have dollar stores anymore. They used to be everywhere, but I can't remember seeing any recently.

  • @88predy
    @88predy5 жыл бұрын

    We did the very same thing in static calculation during the college. We just called it degree of static freedom. Pretty neat thing.

  • @MathIguess
    @MathIguess5 жыл бұрын

    For the 3 vertex all connected example, it is winnable with $0, provided one vertex has $2 and the other two have -1 each.. then you can win in 1 move

  • @micronalpha
    @micronalpha5 жыл бұрын

    It is always a pleasure seing a video by Dr. Holly Krieger. :)

  • @DamaKubu
    @DamaKubu5 жыл бұрын

    I'm positive about this

  • @karljay7473
    @karljay74734 жыл бұрын

    I wasn't thinking of how to determine if it's winnable or not, I was thinking of how to program the lowest number of moves needed. I was thinking of a set of two numbers per node, one number is how many it connects to and the second number is the total directly connected to it. Maybe a third number indicating true/false if there's a negative number connected to the node. Then somehow work the nodes in some order. This would make an interesting mobile phone app.

  • @MasterHigure
    @MasterHigure5 жыл бұрын

    9:30 The obvious example of "amount of money < genus but still winable" is some monster graph with an astronomical genus, and 0 in each vertex.

  • @raphielohnef4678

    @raphielohnef4678

    5 жыл бұрын

    Or just the triangle with all zeroes :D

  • @MasterHigure

    @MasterHigure

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, you can make it boring if you want to. ^^

  • @zarathustra7139
    @zarathustra71394 жыл бұрын

    I think i am in love .

  • @SnabbKassa

    @SnabbKassa

    2 жыл бұрын

    we all are

  • @CTJ2619
    @CTJ26195 жыл бұрын

    calculating the genus sounds a lot like the Euler Formula (if it were for only 2 dimensions)

  • @HAL-oj4jb

    @HAL-oj4jb

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's actually related, check out 3blue1brown's video on the Euler Formula, he uses the fact that a complete graph always in two dimensions always has a genus of one :)

  • @miloandash
    @miloandash5 жыл бұрын

    This is a cool game, really interesting!

  • @mediumjohnsilver
    @mediumjohnsilver5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder, would “Scramble Squares” puzzles be related to graph theory? That’s a puzzle for arranging nine squares into a larger square, making sure that each edge matches its complement (like the +2 edge matching a -2 edge).

  • @sarysa
    @sarysa5 жыл бұрын

    7:19 seems that puzzle is in a quantum state.

  • @edtsch

    @edtsch

    5 жыл бұрын

    I thought the same thing when I saw the simple graph with 0,1 and -1 in a triangle: "that must represent some fundamental notion of superposition or entanglement."

  • @titip1995

    @titip1995

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not if the zero gives. it will do : /-2\ 2 -2 and then let the 2 give twice.

  • @yehoshuas.6917

    @yehoshuas.6917

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@titip1995 If the zero gives the -1 becomes 0, not -2.

  • @MonsterHealthandFitness
    @MonsterHealthandFitness4 жыл бұрын

    I need to stop crushing on Holly Krueger. I really really do. 😍

  • @jameswilson8270
    @jameswilson82705 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating!

  • @erniejudge9311
    @erniejudge93114 жыл бұрын

    In the 3 vertices, 3 edges (triangle) the genus is 1. There's a trivial solution where all vertices are 0. You have already won. This will also be the case for all genus > 0 where all vertices contain 0 or > 0 dollars.

  • @kev3d
    @kev3d4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for calling a vertex a vertex. I work in 3d and it drives me absolutely nuts how often veteran animators and modelers will refer to a singular "vertice" (ver-tis-see).

  • @rstknives2423
    @rstknives24235 жыл бұрын

    Holly molly! I'm in love with this math!

  • @Jivvi

    @Jivvi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Who is Molly?

  • @MateHegyhati
    @MateHegyhati5 жыл бұрын

    Yay, graph theory again!

  • @sarthakshah1058
    @sarthakshah10585 жыл бұрын

    I remember Genuses/Genii (I am not aware of the correct plural form) being used in Euler's theorem for 3 Dimensional shapes with enclosed volume

  • @Palimbacchius

    @Palimbacchius

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you want a Latin plural it would be 'genera', but I doubt that people use that.

  • @meithecatte8492
    @meithecatte84925 жыл бұрын

    But if you add a vertex that's not connected to the graph, the genus decreases.

  • @jonp3674

    @jonp3674

    5 жыл бұрын

    I guess each disconnected component should be considered seperately.

  • @pR0stYp3

    @pR0stYp3

    5 жыл бұрын

    i assume that the requirement is [altough its not stated] that the graph must connected, else you can make any game unwinnable by adding a vertex not connected and with a 'score' of -1.

  • @jonp3674

    @jonp3674

    5 жыл бұрын

    Or at least a union of disconnected graphs is winnable iff each component is winnable.

  • @nymalous3428

    @nymalous3428

    5 жыл бұрын

    Here's a neat idea for an expansion of that concept: have several graphs each with multiple vertices that are interconnected with edges. Each of the separate graphs are connected with "super-edges" which must then be somehow "balanced" in the same way as the "lesser" graphs. (I know, it is a very rough concept, but I thought I'd throw it out there.)

  • @smurfyday

    @smurfyday

    5 жыл бұрын

    How's that different from the superedges being normal edges and just connecting the graphs?

  • @ymi_yugy3133
    @ymi_yugy31335 жыл бұрын

    Is it possible to have more one edge between two vertices?

  • @calcoph.

    @calcoph.

    5 жыл бұрын

    You could make an alternate version but i guess the genus things would change.

  • @xCorvus7x

    @xCorvus7x

    5 жыл бұрын

    You may try to define rules for that but it does not really make sense as it is, since every edge only serves to show where money can flow. More edges between same points would not change that.

  • @ymi_yugy3133

    @ymi_yugy3133

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@xCorvus7x I think two edges would mean you have to send 2 dollars to one vertex.

  • @calcoph.

    @calcoph.

    5 жыл бұрын

    The way I see it is that if there were 2 edges instead of taking or giving 1$ at a time it would take/give 2. So a vertex could be linked to 2 vertices, one with only one edge and the other with 2 edges, so it would take/give 3$ each time while only being conected to 2 vertices.

  • @xCorvus7x

    @xCorvus7x

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@calcoph. +Ymi_Yugi Oh, so you give/take one dollar per edge and not one dollar to/from each neighbour. But I doubt that this would change much, since you have to give/take one dollar per edge every time, so with more than one edge between two points now only a larger amount of money is shoved back and forth.

  • @maq4441
    @maq44415 жыл бұрын

    I am gonna add this game in my CS project of games!

  • @vorpal22
    @vorpal222 ай бұрын

    I just got the book, "Divisors and Sandpiles" today and I'm very excited to start it... the introductory motivating problem is the dollar game. I can't figure out a proof as to why C6 with v0 = -2 and v2 = 2 and all other v 0 is unwinnable, but I feel that it is. The genus formula doesn't guarantee a winning strategy, since for that, the genus must be 1, but it's 0. C6 with v0 = -2 and v3 = -2 is clearly winnable and has same genus.

  • @bjarnes.4423
    @bjarnes.44235 жыл бұрын

    On the triangle graph it would work with '0' with the config: /(2)\ (-1) - (-1)

  • @didles123

    @didles123

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it's not a bi-conditional. The test is inconclusive when the sum is less than the genus.

  • @anamikarai7240

    @anamikarai7240

    5 жыл бұрын

    This man has discovered the secrets of the universe

  • @Errzoin

    @Errzoin

    5 жыл бұрын

    0 always work for every possible configuration with a 0 in each vertices.

  • @erichopper4979

    @erichopper4979

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@allasar - I wonder if there is a transformation that lets you turn graphs that are ambiguous into simpler graphs that aren't?

  • @arcuesfanatic

    @arcuesfanatic

    5 жыл бұрын

    As far as i'm aware, you can't really turn one graph into another, since simply moving nodes around doesn't count as different graphs. However, you might be able to focus on smaller portions of the graph at a time, balancing out the smaller graphs to better balance out the entire graph as a whole. That gets further into game theory though.

  • @TheRealFlenuan
    @TheRealFlenuan5 жыл бұрын

    7:23 I'm sorry but that's the sexiest "Do you want to know the answer?" I've ever seen

  • @porschepanamera92

    @porschepanamera92

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha, looking for that comment! Someone else must had picked that up.

  • @xanokothe
    @xanokothe5 жыл бұрын

    I love you Dr Holly

  • @PabloNevares
    @PabloNevares5 жыл бұрын

    While it seems like commenters have already figured out that the monster puzzle at 8:42 and linked in the description is solvable, it looks like the one shown at 3:50 with "how few moves can you win the game in" is a troll. The genus is 11 with 4 dollars on the board!

  • @wythore
    @wythore5 жыл бұрын

    I think I'm in love

  • @HemantGanti117
    @HemantGanti1175 жыл бұрын

    "Dunder Mifflin,this is Pam"

  • @esthoril

    @esthoril

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's what I was searching for, exactly the same mouth movement!

  • @coolpipe1
    @coolpipe1 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @sandman7955
    @sandman79555 жыл бұрын

    I love the videos .

  • @davidcoulombe3924
    @davidcoulombe39244 жыл бұрын

    Okay, second video I have seen with this lady...........I think I have a crush :)

  • @jmaymay1997
    @jmaymay19975 жыл бұрын

    Never clicked on a video faster

  • @ongbonga9025

    @ongbonga9025

    5 жыл бұрын

    I hope it was because of Holly and not because maths.

  • @paulmuaddib913
    @paulmuaddib9134 жыл бұрын

    Why do i binge watch these?

  • @chadwilson618
    @chadwilson6183 ай бұрын

    I would love to see this as an app to play around with. This applies to finances also

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