If you enjoyed hearing our expert Tom Magliery discuss his 37 collection, you can watch an extended interview with him - for free! - over on our Patreon ve42.co/PatreonTom

@ortholol

22 күн бұрын

Yippee!

@musicstage3457

22 күн бұрын

wow! definitely subscribing to the patron!

@feha92

22 күн бұрын

Must admit I was rather interested in how different regions, languages or cultures affect the statistics you collected, so a bit sad you didn't discuss that. You did say 37 is prevalent everywhere, but how much and to what extent does it differ? Like, I don't think I see it much over here when it comes to roadsigns or pricetags

@anthonylosego

22 күн бұрын

I doubt people will watch this episode enough to move the selection process needle. In fact, probably only 1 out 37 people will have seen it.

@razaabbas5813

22 күн бұрын

I agree with ​@@feha92. Seems more like a feeding number to people and asking them again.

walking down the street and being asked to say a random number and then having the interviewer get excited over your answer has to be so confusing

@andrasbiro3007

29 күн бұрын

Only 37% confusing.

@taiguy53

29 күн бұрын

​@@andrasbiro3007I beg to differ. It is a 37/37 chance of confusion

@jubran7469

29 күн бұрын

Reading this after you posted 37m ago :p

@yanhitta

29 күн бұрын

You literally commented this 37 minutes ago for me...

@oliverspiler9101

29 күн бұрын

Im Here 37 minutes after the comment was posted

"he just 37ed and walked away" was undoubtedly the funniest part of this video

@universaltoons

29 күн бұрын

My parents said if I reach 30K, they'd buy me a professionaI camera for recording!! Pls guys I'm literally begging you...

@StraightBananaAction

29 күн бұрын

The video has only been out for 8 minutes you liar

@Okamikurainya

29 күн бұрын

I have listened to it over and over on max volume and I swear he says 36, not 37. 😵‍💫

@SubatomicSpeck

29 күн бұрын

@@Okamikurainya we need to get your ears checked, my friend.

@samstromberg5593

29 күн бұрын

@@Okamikurainya Watch his mouth six only has 1 syllable but his mouth moves twice (not counting the 30)

I watched the whole video thinking that I don't have anything related to 37 at all, then realized that I'm 37 years old.

@gutchimoto2112

11 күн бұрын

Ok ³7 slayed my demons.

@berserkurhrafn

10 күн бұрын

37% of my favourite bread consists of whole grains.

@itsbetteryoudontknowme

8 күн бұрын

37 likes as well

@MrOxyMT

8 сағат бұрын

What a minute!!!!!!! I just turned 37

Guy: "Hey what gas station do you wanna go to?" Veritasium: "So are you familiar with logarithms and derivatives?"

@lordboateng7228

12 күн бұрын

Guys... this comment has 37 likes

@user-cb8mj6dp5m

4 күн бұрын

Everyone that finished highschool: Sure...

@jessejordache1869

3 күн бұрын

@@user-cb8mj6dp5m Everyone who finished a GOOD highschool. I went to one of those factory schools that doesn't teach you anything other than how to sit still for six hours and do repetitive tasks. Taught meself calculus.

@vinily.

16 сағат бұрын

370 likes😭

37 and 73 being the 12th and 21st prime numbers is satisfying.

@xkilla911

24 күн бұрын

woah I wonder if it would be the same if the number system isn't based on 10? Like if the max number is 9, would there still be mirror images of 37 equivalent?

@migueltovarguerrero2582

24 күн бұрын

@@xkilla911that’s an interesting question. I will look for a video explaining other number systems after this.

@jamesiyer4937

23 күн бұрын

This comment has 37 likes. I can't touch it

@murkotron

23 күн бұрын

yeah yeah yeah and 21 is divided by 3 and 7, blah-blah-blah. We all watched TBBT, thank you very much.

@eliasgodwin8729

23 күн бұрын

You just blew my mind. It’s a full circle. Now I have to go watch Teenage Butant Binja Turtles.

The fact this video isn't 37mins long, is an insult to easter eggs everywhere.

@Romulusmap

29 күн бұрын

It's 23:50. Just add 2 to 5 and 0 and leave 3 and you'll have 37. A little comfort :D

@zygmuntIIIwuzza

29 күн бұрын

first thing i checked was video length

@p382742937423y4

29 күн бұрын

That was clever

@Gingerperson1234

29 күн бұрын

The fact that this popped up in my youtube homepage recommendations 36 minutes after it was posted is also an insult.

@iCanadai

29 күн бұрын

if it was just 1 minute and 1 second shorter, 22:49, it would've been 37x37 seconds long

"37, in a row?!" - CLERKS ( Arguably the funniest scene in cinematic history)

@ifindmetal

9 күн бұрын

Something like 36 ,,, 36!?? Is that including me !?? Err 37

@stnkfngr6109

9 күн бұрын

@@ifindmetal yeah, I believe that scene was titled " Snowball".

@ifindmetal

9 күн бұрын

@@stnkfngr6109 I laughed harder watching that movie than any other , probably had something to do with being a convenience store clerk back in late 90’s when this came out situations were so relatable lol

@AlgeistNydream

7 күн бұрын

Look here for the funniest video response to Derek from Germany.

I love how when I was thinking of the number 37 I recalled that death note had 37 episodes, it was always an odd number to me until now!

@FenolftaleinRE

5 күн бұрын

Heyy! I used to have that memorized! Thank you for the memories.

The fact that he discarded 42 and 69 for obvious reasons is just too funny to me.

@calebadobah641

28 күн бұрын

Why 42 though?😂

@rottenpancakes

28 күн бұрын

@@calebadobah641 meaning of life

@AdhiNarayananYR

28 күн бұрын

What’s the reason?

@montaf

28 күн бұрын

@@calebadobah641 either because of the number in his logo or because its the closest number to 420 the second "funny" number after 69

@aniruddhahar

28 күн бұрын

42 is a pop culture reference to the meaning of life. Look up the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

37 actually has a unique universal quality: it's the representation of the exact quantity of 37, a very special property that no other number has.

@Eryna_

29 күн бұрын

thanks for making the single best joke in this comment section

@katanaki3059

29 күн бұрын

😎

@thecrazyinsanity

29 күн бұрын

what about other number bases? base 2 or base 16?

@Jake28

29 күн бұрын

no way

@ultracreador

29 күн бұрын

¿Está en la base numérica decimal?

I just turn 37 years old and it is the first birthday ever I decided to celebrate. As a kid, my mom gave me a couple birthday parties or celebrations, but at 15 I started not liking birthdays and never ever celebrated. This year, thanks to therapy I discovered the importance of celebrating, so a couple of months ago, I decided to have a gathering with friends and generally celebrate. Turns out, the first birthday celebration ever for me as an adult was my 37th birthday.

@echognomecal6742

3 күн бұрын

🎂Wishing you a very happy & transformative 37th year 🥳 Perhaps next year I'll celebrate mine again ☮😊

Sheldon Cooper explains very well why 73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.

I'm 37 years old. This explains everything!

@universaltoons

29 күн бұрын

My parents said if I reach 30K, they'd buy me a professionaI camera for recording... Pls guys I'm literally begging you!

@phillipshoemakr

29 күн бұрын

I’m 69 so what does that mean

@olivierbegassat851

29 күн бұрын

Me too (as my girlfriend just pointed out 😄)

@SubatomicSpeck

29 күн бұрын

so you're evverywhere!!!!

@itschadsson4872

29 күн бұрын

Well your 38 next year

After the video finished, I got a turbotax ad that said 37% of people qualify. My mind is blown

@ville__

29 күн бұрын

Don't translate..... भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ‎

@RyanJones-ew8vm

29 күн бұрын

​@@ville__😂😂

@mrsillytacos

29 күн бұрын

​@@ville__uttp kid

@secret.admirer

29 күн бұрын

Probably KZread algorithms picked up the number from the video and matched with the Ad😃

@MaxIronsThird

29 күн бұрын

404 likes

Great to see you filming part of 37, maybe 3/7th in Sydney, Australia Derek. But meeting you today in Edgecliff, in person, made my day, my week, or even my year!😀

The gasping compilation at 2:20 is really too good 😂

It gets even creepier. When you ignore all other numbers, 37 will come up 100% of the time!

@endless7115

28 күн бұрын

Oh my god

@Hmmm777

28 күн бұрын

You have a point

@omkarnagarhalli5217

28 күн бұрын

Yeah as much as there is legitimate and interesting information in this video, it does feel like there’s a LOT of confirmation bias

@bm-ub6zc

28 күн бұрын

​@@omkarnagarhalli5217then why will people like your comment until the number of likes stop at 37?

@christophsiebert1213

28 күн бұрын

@@omkarnagarhalli5217 I mean, I can understand ruling certain numbers out, as they were explained in the video. Like priming numbers from the question 1 and 100, and the obvious sex joke reference 69 (you wouldn't get this bias in surveys outside internet culture actually) But I agree, at some point it felt like they were ruling out too many numbers just to get 37 at place 1. But at least one cannot deny the pattern of 3 and 7. But I would assume this is simply because they just feel right. They are odd, lie exactly between multiples of 5, are not multiple of 10 (which is also the reason most multiple of 10 seemed to be the least favorite in the survey, as they just felt too even, too easy, too unrandom, at least to me)

i like how Derek dismissed 42 and 69 as "not random" and continued without any explanation

@forthehomies7043

28 күн бұрын

I think we all know why 69 isn’t random 🫣

@rocker8890

28 күн бұрын

i can see why they say 42 is “not random” lmao

@Mithryl__

28 күн бұрын

@@rocker8890 closest thing 420 probably because they might've wrote it as "42.0"

@parcivales

28 күн бұрын

69 likes on this comment, perfectly balanced, as all things should be

@michaelscarn2270

28 күн бұрын

Did you not see the 42 written under the channel picture?

"THIRTY SEVEN PATTIES?!" part got me 🤣💀💀💀

@Olver2-tu8zi

6 күн бұрын

🥸

Arguably the best aftermarket wheel designs ever made.. TE37s 🤯

73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th. And its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3. In binary 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001. -Sheldon Cooper

@siddhant-lz7uj

29 күн бұрын

lol

@IRLtwigstan

29 күн бұрын

That’s fascinating… like wow!

@AminaA-fo5cu

29 күн бұрын

@@siddhant-lz7ujl lol

@Mr_Stanley888

29 күн бұрын

Hahahahahaha

@closedinfinity9019

29 күн бұрын

It's Most Likely Cause, now a days we Have Demonize Number * "36" so, people just add 1 to it and Made 37. Simple. If U know what I mean 😂😅

The fact that 1/e = 0.37 is good evidence why the number turns up everywhere, *e* turns up everywhere.

@civotamuaz5781

29 күн бұрын

Also number 137 shows up a lot

@johncorn7905

29 күн бұрын

Thats what i said when i first saw it!

@IlaiShoshani

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, and the random quality of it is prominently caused by its odd prime digits 3 and 7 and by the fact that its prime.

@adamant8501

29 күн бұрын

Could i ask you to expand, will do my best to understand and if needed further explore myself

@ville__

29 күн бұрын

Don't translate..... भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ‎

man... your videos never dissapoint. Great stuff. Thank you.

I see 87 everywhere. I can't remember the last time i recall 37 in any way. Until NOW ahhhhh!

I wonder how many studies involving students/reddit have to include a footnote explaining why they considered "69" an anomaly that could safely be ignored without affecting the outcome.

@pranshukrishna5105

29 күн бұрын

why is 69 ignored

@Antron7000

29 күн бұрын

sex@@pranshukrishna5105

@Nikkikkikkiz

29 күн бұрын

​@@pranshukrishna5105 funny number

@xgford94

29 күн бұрын

Nice

@Chosler88

29 күн бұрын

and 42 lol

Veritasium is single-handledly going to make 37 and 73 now the LEAST randomly guessed number by people.

@tapiocaweasel

28 күн бұрын

that is indeed a distinct possibility

@ethanmax97

28 күн бұрын

Yep, what number did you guys think when you first heard what he asked in the video? I thought of 97,still what he said is true. It's weird I thought of something ending with 7.

@monadity3883

28 күн бұрын

undoing all that careful work on 23 by Robert Anton Wilson!

@SoaksOnDeltaForce

28 күн бұрын

Wait until he discovers what 1/137 is. He gunna 🤯

@j-train13

28 күн бұрын

@@ethanmax97 for me it was 47, so pretty close

1/137. Fine structure constant. Wolfgang Pauli was obsessed with number 137. He died in hospital room 137.

We all live in a simulation and the Dev picked 37 has the go-to random number.

I think the explanation's simpler: People think randomness is whatever's furthest from the extremes and medians, and three is in the middle of 1 and 5, and seven is in the middle of 5 and 9.

@WilliaMXXNavilluS

27 күн бұрын

Can you see my comment before this one?

@ilovemangojuice0

27 күн бұрын

i completely agree i think thats also why people tend to rate things 7/10 or 3/10. its the sweetspot lol

@kedargawande6404

27 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@NowhereMan7

27 күн бұрын

This explanation was part of the video if you watched it.

@brandodurham

27 күн бұрын

Yes

Being able to determine if such a large number is divisible by 37 at a glance is such a hilariously specific talent I'd have believed it was a reference a Monty Python skit.

@sammy-brawlstars7350

28 күн бұрын

Do you know how he did it?

@joehead4081

28 күн бұрын

@@sammy-brawlstars7350 Split the number up into 3-digit chunks starting from the right (so 21485 would give you 21 and 485 for example), and add them up. If that sum is a multiple of 37 so is your original. You can repeat multiple times if the starting number is big enough. It's basically the same as the trick for 3, just 3 digits at a time. It comes from the fact that 999 is a multiple of 37.

@parallaxus4390

28 күн бұрын

​@sammy-brawlstars7350 999 is divisble by 37. If you split the number into the first three and second three digits then if you add them together and get a multiple of 37 the original number is also a multiple of 37. I think the rest of the trick is memorising the multiples of 37 less than 2000.

@TheCavemonk

28 күн бұрын

Its easy, because 37 divides evenly into 999. So you add up the first 3 digits and the last 3 digits, like 413 + 625 = 1038. You can do that again, so you get 39. If the final number, which is Also, if your number is longer than 6 digits, its still very easy, you just split it into more groups of 3, beginning from the least significant digits, and add everything up.

@blwho8881

28 күн бұрын

@@TheCavemonkthe video about the unsolved constant( 1/137 )makes alot more sense now

The strangest thing is, Schrodinger(who was the father of quantum mechanics, a branch of pure randomness) was 37 yrs old when he gave his First breakthrough in quantum physics by giving his Schrodinger equation which is the core equation we use today, it was unusual because he has been waiting for a revolutionary idea and he went through depression all this time to give the most revolutionary equation of all time at the age 37.

i find this video extremely relatable, thank you 👍

After watching the video I looked all around my room and checked every number I could find and seems like I'm living a life completely devoid of the number 37.

@diaryofacrankykid7270

29 күн бұрын

I did the same thing! 37 times!

@bodkie

29 күн бұрын

That seems almost more suspect than having a lot of instances of 37 🤔 almost like someone is hiding the truth from you...

@meshalalajmi1019

29 күн бұрын

Omg I was gonna say I always see the number 101 and I checked the likes on this comment to my surprise it’s 101 😂. But probably just because I pay attention to it more than any other number.

@kegenrodrigues

29 күн бұрын

@@diaryofacrankykid7270oh Man U guys r hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@andrewosborne3213

29 күн бұрын

It's a lie they throwing everyone off 27

That 37 one dollar bills each with the number 37 is a true act of love from his mother. Beautiful.

bro like two years ago I randomly just started like admiring the number 37 as my lucky number despite my number for sports and class orders and EVERYTHING always being 5, I just suddenly decided it was 37 and now I feel special :)

I needed this video. Now I can clarify my insanity when I find the same number 5 times over. Before this, I thought 37 was just my lucky number.

Amazing how they explain every little details so clearly, but politely avoid stating the reason for 69 being picked more than 37 😂

@dannous

28 күн бұрын

Lol I though the same

@TXDude

28 күн бұрын

While I understand the Meaning of Life=42, it didn't occur to me at the intro of this video when people were responding with their 'random' number. Plus, one has to be of a certain age to know this little quip about 42. Discounting 42 on this basis skews the results unless they asked a follow-up question to each person saying 42; why did you pick 42? If respondents say anything other than HHG or Meaning of Life, there's no justifiable reason to discount ALL submissions of 42. As for 69, I've no idea. So probably the same applies; if they didn't ask for a reason to choose 69, then they shouldn't remove 69 from the collected set. So much for quality science: throw away anything that doesn't match the outcome you want and call the experiment a success.

@User-jr7vf

28 күн бұрын

yea Lol

@hunters88

28 күн бұрын

@@TXDude 69 is a meme number, it will always be picked more. Are you denying that the outcome was a success? Its clear that 37 was picked more often than most numbers. Biased data is thrown out all the time.

@MzoroPL

28 күн бұрын

​@@TXDude He discounted 42 because it's in the channel logo

What i love about this is that the person answering 37 thinks the interviewer is fake overreacting to their random number😂

If you build a square like the calculator without the zero, in the 1st row 7,8,9 in the 2nd 4,5,6 and in the 3th row 1,2,3 if write: 321123 and do the same thing with the 2nd row 456654 and then the 3th row and surprise: each of them are divisible by 37. If you do the same thing with the first column 741147 and the second column 852258 and the 3th column 963369 also are divisible by 37. it’s works with the diagonals too.

The lady who said 2 is my kindred spirit!

as a person who was born in February 37, Thank you for making this video

@Russellsauce

29 күн бұрын

can I interview you?

@animatedzombie64

29 күн бұрын

Commenting 37 mins after you.

@real3744

29 күн бұрын

@@animatedzombie64good one, i commented 37 seconds after you

@memolano100

29 күн бұрын

Lol 😂

29 күн бұрын

fr

37 goes into 111 three times, and thus it divides 999. This is IMPORTANT because if something costs $9.99 for example, which is not an uncommon price, with the scheme corporations use where stuff ends at .99, then $0.37 is quite a likely price to have if stuff comes in bulk, that's why $0.37 seems to pop up everywhere. This fact also makes 37 special at least in decimal because anything divided by 37 will have a much simpler decimal expansion compared to other primes of that size (the lengths of repeating decimal expansions depend on the divisors of 10n-1 for any whole number n) -- in fact, it is the ONLY unique prime that gives a three-digit repeating decimal expansion in decimal

@Planehazza

24 күн бұрын

The fact this had 23 likes before I hit it struck me, thanks to the film 23. Quite a coincidence

@artv4nd3l4y

24 күн бұрын

@@Planehazza I know what you did last summer

@astronemir

24 күн бұрын

Bingo

@ParallelNews-4u

22 күн бұрын

On Earth you have a variety of interests. The workings of life gets dismantled hence the search for nuances like numbers. If you are interested in the basic binaries of life, example 1's and 0's, your purpose becomes clear and the nuances becomes absolute. It is a matter of living your best life as a 1 or as a 0. Ps. 1's is Always the way to live a Good Healthy and Wealthy Life. Ahoeaaa.

@aqword4373

22 күн бұрын

Are bulk items usually shipped in batches of 27? (Perhaps shipped in 3x3x3 cubes?) This explanation would only work if they are. True, things are often priced ending in 99 cents, but those prices ending in .99 aren't divisible to end in .37 unless there's a batch of 27 (or 127, 227, 337 etc) of the item sold at the same price. I would've assumed that things would much more often be shipped in containers with even numbers of items per side. Anyone familiar with the shipping industry know if bulk items are commonly shipped in 3x3x3 cubes? This explanation also only works if B2B wholesale prices end in 99 cents. Is that common for bulk items? (From the little B2B pricing I've seen I wouldn't expect it to be, but I've only worked with B2B SaaS pricing, not with B2B pricing for bulk items that are intended to be re-sold to consumers. I'd expect a retail price ending in .99 to be much more common than a wholesale price ending in .99, especially since wholesaling at numbers ending in .99 would mean that the retail price wouldn't generally end in .99, which would be problematic for retailers wanting to sway consumers with pricing psychology.) [edited for spelling]

Since watching this vid, I've been seeing 37 everywhere. It's probably the same number of occurrences as it was before, but now I'm aware, so it seems like more. It's like when my jaws were wired shut after having corrective surgery, there were nonstop food commercials on TV. I'm sure there were just as many beforehand, but not being able to eat solid food made me more aware.

Wow--this was really interesting, but a nice side benefit is that the math equations section gave me that relaxed zone-out feeling I used to get in math class. Might as well sit back and chill, cuz I ain't gonna get it, and I know it LOL

I saw this video on 3.7m views, had no option but to watch the entire thing at 4 am.

@KeepFeedingMeImStillHungry

27 күн бұрын

I saw that Veritasium removed 42 insiuating it was was about them instead of Hitchhiker's Guide, and promptly unsubbed after 10 years because at this point valuing engagement is more important than creating an actual "Idiocracy" through misinformation presented as fact. It's happening everywhere, but the fact that it's happening here is most concerning...

@puperman4208

27 күн бұрын

2am here, I may be cooked

@CheeseyHR

27 күн бұрын

@@KeepFeedingMeImStillHungry42 wasn’t even close to the Amount of 37, nor does it have anything to do with the main topic of the video. Also most people do not know that the answer to life is 42 lol. Assuming that 42 was mostly because of their channel logo, on a poll on THEIR channel is a fair assumption.

@jgarbo3541

27 күн бұрын

The show has become commercial, sponsored (bribed). Good bye.

@brachechs4911

26 күн бұрын

I read your comment and had to check the time. It was 7:37 am...

The fact that this video had 3.7 million views when I saw it makes it funny

@dreamoflegends4004

27 күн бұрын

Same pal the only reason I clicked, it was too freaky to pass up😅

@go5reni

27 күн бұрын

@@dreamoflegends4004oh same! I wasn’t interested in watching it but I had to click because of that lmao

@toxendon

27 күн бұрын

Saaame. We are the chosen ones ​@@go5reni

@mikomaxwell6313

27 күн бұрын

@@dreamoflegends4004and the thumbnail with the sun as the decimal

@adans01is80

27 күн бұрын

Happened to me too

When I heard 37, the first thing that came to my mind was that 37% is 1/e rounded to the 2nd place of decimal ( turns up frequently in damping and capacitance/inductance problems)

I liked the fact that the sponsor, for the video was at the end.

@AlgeistNydream

7 күн бұрын

Look here for a video response without a sponsor. Prepare to laugh!

*Now I deeply regret not remembering which number I voted for in the poll* 😭

@locinolacolino1302

29 күн бұрын

Statistically it's either 69 or 42

@jeevans7656

29 күн бұрын

same

@antimony2333

29 күн бұрын

real

@Dragon51220

29 күн бұрын

I also regret not remembering lmao

@ianweckhorst3200

29 күн бұрын

I thought it was 23

Not bullshitting, I remember seeing 37 everywhere for years when I was a child, and as I grew I up I decided to ignore it and just assumed I was subconsciously looking for it. Now some 15 years later I've never felt so vindicated

@mokiloke

28 күн бұрын

Thats funny ive been seeing the number 15 everywhere.

@theshanweerasinghe4644

28 күн бұрын

Your comment should end up with 37 likes or 3.7k likes

@sharvapotdar3257

28 күн бұрын

Exactly. I’ve been long telling everyone I know that the number follows me, was even my roll call number in school most of the time.

@williamm973

27 күн бұрын

Same here

@Happy-ms1el

27 күн бұрын

Hi

Here’s another take: Subconscious runs through numbers 1-9/10, causing someone asked the question to quickly choose 3, and with slightly more time choose a larger number, 7 - the larger reason being that (3+7 = 7+3 = 10) - as well as 100 being 10 x 10, humans seek to make things whole, I believe the prime rationale is less of a factor, more similar to casinos 🎰 or triangles and rule of thirds, or start beginning or end. I think it’s just deeply engrained in the mind from a basic understanding of maths and a subconscious pattern recognition and need for order and control, with 10 being a quick conclusion due to predisposition to expect and seek unity of wholeness.

37 was my first favorite number because it was the channel # for Nick when I was a kid, lol

3:58 The MOMENT I saw that there was a Reddit poll of the 1-100 question, I IMMEDIATELY knew what was gonna be selected.

@leopold3146

29 күн бұрын

Redditors being redditors

@ronreal9971

29 күн бұрын

veritasium needs to make a video on that number too

@Abstract69832

29 күн бұрын

@@leopold3146 redditors being redditors

@StormageddonTMS

29 күн бұрын

Nice

@vanzeralltheway8638

29 күн бұрын

I haven't seen it yet by if i had to guess... Its a nice number. I wonder what will happen to the world if this test didn't yield 37 and have that "nice" number as the result instead.

I really like the way Derek smoothly handled 42 and 69 by not considering them random 😄

@joshhill8010

29 күн бұрын

I understand 69 but why 42?

@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH

29 күн бұрын

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and also 420 is a thing

@mamidia1

29 күн бұрын

@@joshhill801042 is the answer to everything in the universe from the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy and it’s been a popular cultural reference since then

@Serenity_Dee

29 күн бұрын

​@@joshhill8010Kids these days.

@m.rieger8856

29 күн бұрын

@@joshhill8010 Douglas Adams

Evo Moment 37. One of the most remarkable plays in fighting games in history

@joecoolmccall

Күн бұрын

Let's go Justin!

One also might consider the wording. The directive "choose a random number" is different than that of "randomly select a number," so the question itself may be priming them as well.

If you needed a justification for accepting cases of ‘37%’, the percent sign is the 37th character in ASCII.

@willjoshua2354

26 күн бұрын

holy moly

@challenger937

26 күн бұрын

Mindblowing

@ruthmiale1239

26 күн бұрын

Throwing this out there: We are schooled to not revel our age. When you’re a (very common) baby boomer 37 is safely not your age or the age of your milieu. Fun video and interesting topic -

@microcolonel

26 күн бұрын

@@ruthmiale1239 age?

@528Circle

26 күн бұрын

Fox Mulder - please call your office.

This reminds me how Sheldon’s(big bang theory) favourite number was 73 “73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and it mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3 … and in binary 73 is a palindrome… 1-0-0-1-0-0-1, which backwards is 1-0-0-1-0-0-1.”

@sankalpchawla007

27 күн бұрын

WOW!

@dr.sheldoncooper9593

27 күн бұрын

Bazzzingaaa 😂

@yashparakh1999

27 күн бұрын

Alright! 73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.

@user-iy6de7qi1r

27 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@sheldonlouis

27 күн бұрын

My name is Sheldon…

Hmm, 137 has fascinated me for a long time. Fine structure constant and what-not

There is this Mentalist episode where a guy who makes a prophecy that something important will happen to you with the number 3. But 3 is such common number that it you can make it mean anything you want. This feels like the same thing, you could have focused on almost any number between 1 and 100 and made it look like the universe was aligning around it.

@EmmaSquire-ks9nu

4 күн бұрын

It's called confirmation bias. Red pilled men do it with feminine behavior they don't like.

To be honest, it's because 37 is both prime, uses both 3 and 7 (which are both prime), and 7 is the number that is least "cleanly" handled in base 10. It's also what the magician points out: it's that both numbers are odd and both are different. Somehow, it "feels" like the "most random" number in our base 10 system.

@vezokpiraka

29 күн бұрын

Also 3 and 7 are well known magic numbers. It's super hard to take this out of any study as the culture that brought this has been here for thousands of years. The only thing more culturally enshrined in the West is calling mothers something like mama.

@trueberryless

29 күн бұрын

I would like the comment, but it has 42 likes... that means something

@TheSheep1

29 күн бұрын

53

@stevejohnson2053

29 күн бұрын

came here to point out exactly this but u did it far better than i ever could

@EricLS

29 күн бұрын

That is EXACTLY what came to my mind. They are both odd, prime, and the number is prime. You even know that 37 is prime because you know your times tables and it wasn’t there.

In case Tom is interested, the nail with 37 on it is a date nail. These were hammered into the wooden ties that the rails of train tracks were spiked to. Sometimes on the end of the tie, sometimes on top. They were commonly collected by railroad fans who, by doing so, stymied the purpose of the nails. It helped keep track (no pun intended) of how long the ties had been there … and possibly have some indication of when the tie should be replaced (ties in dry climates would need to be replaced less frequently than those in wetter climates). There types of nails (as well as a kind of ‘spike’ that looks a bit like a strange, two pronged bottle cap) were also used on telegraph/telephone poles and on utility poles … particularly ones that ran along beside the tracks. (All of this is my best recollection of info. Any inaccuracies are on me). I hope that Tom finds the clarification of what his 37 nail means, interesting. :- )

@scottcameronpedigo219

29 күн бұрын

Yes. As a college student in the late seventies I worked for a couple of summers on an extra rail gang for Burlington-Northern in Indiana and Ohio, both laying new track and replacing old ties on existing track, the old-fashioned way. I have -- or had -- a few of those nails from old ties that we replaced. If I find them, I'll have to check if I have any from 1937.

@_mrnoah99

29 күн бұрын

As someone in his class currently, I have sent a message to him with a screenshot of this comment. He replied saying he's already gotten at least 10 emails about it :D

@jpe1

28 күн бұрын

I came looking for this comment! Back in 1988 my dad and I built a retaining wall out of old railroad ties, there were some date nails in some of the ties (though none as recent as 37, mostly years in the early 1920’s). In the early 2010’s someone partially disassembled the wall and stole the date nails, apparently the nails were (are?) quite valuable to collectors.

@brandonspears2028

28 күн бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that 😎🖖

@CraigCounterman

28 күн бұрын

Yes, I too saw that and came here to see if I would be the 37th to tell him, maybe the 370th. There were rarely-used railroad tracks in my neighborhood growing up, and we kids had a game of walking on the ties and avoiding any that had a nail from 1950, the game was called "50-50". The railroad must have had a major repair effort that year, because there were quite a few 50s and sometimes two or three in a row.

Suggestion for next video: It can be about Mirrors. How they were first made? How their manufacturing method evolved over the years.I hope you consider the suggestion.

Hey could you explain the 3 body problem. Ever since watching the series it makes me want to learn more about our universe's behaviours.

I'm not sure why this wasn't brought up by the video, but a far more intuitive argument is simply that 37 is a prime number with both digits prime. Going with the prime number being intuitively random theory, people are also less likely to choose digits perceived as less prime, being 4, 6, 8, 9 as they're composite, but also 0, 1, 2, and 5 as they're more linked to our number base of 10 and therefore come to mind as less relatively prime. What does that leave us with? 3 and 7. And of the two, people tend to be more familiar with 37 simply because it's lower and has the digits in ascending order, as opposed to 73, which takes a bit more thinking to come up with.

@pieterpierrot1490

26 күн бұрын

Underrated comment

@SilkySnow_

26 күн бұрын

rules of 3 is littered all throughout western literature, Hegelian dialectics, holy trinity, etc. 7 is a "lucky" number, 7 days it also took in the bible for god to create the universe.

@UAre_madness

26 күн бұрын

Surprisingly underrated comment section

@originsdecoded3508

26 күн бұрын

You deserve an applause for this, and the world peace award.

“The best number is 73, “Why? 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying seven and three ... and in binary, 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001.” ~Sheldon Cooper

@EPhotoAlbum

27 күн бұрын

I agree. Also part of the lyrics to the song "The Body Electric" by Rush... Trying to change its program Trying to change the mode, crack the code Images conflicting into data overload 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 S.O.S. 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 In distress 1-0-0-1-0-0

@gsmrg

27 күн бұрын

And 12 is product of 3 multiplied by difference of 7&3 😅

@MrBlazingup420

27 күн бұрын

Or any 3 digit number with the same numerical value. 333\9=37 444\12=37 555\15=37 or the other way 777,777\37=21021 888,888\37=24024

@SmallBobby

27 күн бұрын

@@MrBlazingup420 My brain can handle only so many gasms

@kingkimlo3819

27 күн бұрын

@@SmallBobby oh my days i didnt realuse

awesome video!!! Just wondering, surely if you look for the number 37 everywhere then you will find it in many places and discount the places where it doesn't appear, it's really cool that lot's of people picked it (my brother saw this video before me and asked me this question and I said 37) but even with your survey several numbers had to be excluded so that 37 was the most common number. I just wonder if you would find the same number of examples of another number appearing if you looked for it with the same excitement and commitment. (Sorry if this comes across slightly negative, just trying to learn something)

I came across this video "37", due to the fact that my mother's birth year is 1937, and my dad's motorcycle racing number, was, 37! Dad being a mathematician, possibly used that number on his race bikes for a reason!🧐🤔👍

"They have a name for this phenomenon. The Blue-Seven Phenomenon".... researchers truly are great at coming up with names for different things

@goacoa

25 күн бұрын

Because in science the name often describes the phenomenon.

@sphenopalatineganglioneuralgia

25 күн бұрын

@@goacoa So how does 'Fallopian tubes' describe the phenomenon? Lol. Or any of the myriad of eponyms in any scientific field; 'Bohr's law?' Haha

@DjoumyDjoums

24 күн бұрын

I thought this was an april fool because it shortens to the BS phenomenon

@WhatsaTsurt

23 күн бұрын

@@DjoumyDjoums I thought the same. But i did search it, and it is a real thing.

@robertmack4351

21 күн бұрын

Take it from an autistic person: 37 and 111 take on an associative behavior. 37x3=111 okay, but since a geometrical behavior still needs to be addressed, the answers derive from this behavior. Three 37's triangulate and are connected together by the product (111). This interchangeability shares information equally. It's when we go further and express this as an inverted triangle (Mercedes insignia), then trap it in a circle that we find the circle must have a 111 degree circumference, and three sectors of 37. These reconfigure to three 137's ... which are three primes ... and the Fine Structure Constant at the same time. I recently completed a book on these very numerical behaviors. Mind shredding ...

The way old dude said "No Thanks" then his shooter turns back to say "37" like a warning

@shwetaverma2164

27 күн бұрын

The fact that this comment has 37 likes shows that this number is not that random

@libscihuntress8510

27 күн бұрын

ikr lol

@Herb.

27 күн бұрын

I was the 37th like.

@willow1698

27 күн бұрын

Whoa, now it's at 137 lmao that's actually so weird @@shwetaverma2164

@jim6258

27 күн бұрын

Now it’s 237 lmao

Hi There! I have watched many of your videos and love them. I have a question for you. You made a few videos on electricity. I think I understand the basics. So for a light to turn on in my house, I flip the switch, and that makes a close circuit, from my house to the closest transformer in my neighbourhood. This creates an electrical field around the wire, and the light gets its energy from that field. My question is, how is the electrical power moved from the generating station, to the distribution station. There is no close circuit between the generating station and the distribution station? The wires are all going in one direction? No close circuit, no electrical field?

I feel so exposed as a human and these are the kind of things where you understand that we work in ways that we consciously are not aware of, until someone comes along and asks you to say a random number between 1 and 100 :D To be clear, I mostly don't understand the actual math here, but I can totally understand what it kinda says and I also see myself in so many situations now in which I didn't choose randomly or how my mind works sometimes. Don't know what to feel right now xD Edit: I know how to feel, I just knew from the beginning. I kinda love 37 as a number. It feels right and intuitive.

The subtitles "Derek speaking in foreign language" got me

@nathan87

29 күн бұрын

Impenetrable

@marc_frank

29 күн бұрын

was it an obscure language known as french?

@KaitlynBurnellMath

29 күн бұрын

Derek is Canadian. French isn't a foreign language in Canada XD.

@R_V_

29 күн бұрын

@@KaitlynBurnellMath Isn't he Australian ?

@ftnbfer1578

29 күн бұрын

@@R_V_ I believe he moved to Australia for school

Policeman: You’re going to prison for forgery. Me: *Slides him a $37 bill*. What about now?

@benjaminsandeen9241

29 күн бұрын

hahahaha, this made me laugh, that's hilarious!

@acer1kylesf943

29 күн бұрын

36 likes

@Celestia1323

29 күн бұрын

you just 37ed and walked away

@buckettishere6505

29 күн бұрын

good one 😂😂

@Yourmission9

29 күн бұрын

🤣 This person needs, nay, deserves 37 replies🫡

This caught my attention because 37 is my favorite number which is actually crazy after watching this

This is the most fascinating thing I have maybe ever seen.

The TurboTax ad that played during this video said that 37 percent of people qualify for some benefit, unbelievable

@imperator9343

29 күн бұрын

Absolutely either the intuition of the marketer or proprietary market research into what the most "authentic" number to use as a percentage was. Especially given the presumable bias towards numbers under 50

@SaHaRaSquad

29 күн бұрын

Sounds like the algorithm simply matched an ad that features a word which appears like 200 times in the video.

@JeroenJA

29 күн бұрын

haha, so they made up a 'random' number' % for the ad? ;-)

@Danks_utilities

29 күн бұрын

That’s because 37% of all statistics are made up

@Grandremone

27 күн бұрын

Imagine not having an adblocker 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

It’s #37 on trending!

@notlance7360

26 күн бұрын

NO WAY IT ACTUALLY ISS

@viz1tor

26 күн бұрын

KZread really knows how to f with us

@LuisSierra42

26 күн бұрын

The simulation devs must be having a lot of fun rn

@jamiegdubois

26 күн бұрын

It’s back to 37!

@makedah3594

26 күн бұрын

I was the 137th like 💀

37 is also a star number, a centered hexagonal number(and thus a difference of consecutive cubes), and the smallest number other than 1 to be both with the next number to be both being over a thousand. Also, along with its reverse, 73, it's the only two-digit number where all of its digits are prime and all permutations of its digits are prime... and if any such numbers exist for more digits, they would have to consist entirely of 3s and 7s(2, 3, 5, and 7 are the only prime digits, any number with a 2 would have at least one permutation divisible by two, and any number containing a 5 would have at least one permutation divisible by 5). 337, 373, and 733 are the only three digit numbers with this combination of properties(377 = 13*29 is semi prime, and 333 or 777 are multiples of 111, which is 3 * 37... I also remember reading some biblical numerology stuff about 37 being the most holy number not divisible by 7 thatfrom many years ago, but I forget the details. And of course, there's the fact that if you go looking for a number, there's a pretty good chance you'll find it, at least when talking natural numbers on a human scale.

Damnnnn In the intro when you started talking about randomly saying a colour then a number, I actually said blue seven. I’ve never been so gassed to have some inside my head like that haha

How could you do this and not have "you will pick 37!" written on paper in an envelope ready to give to the person on the street?! It would've blown their minds!

@blakemcmillan5680

29 күн бұрын

Hand it to the guesser and then walk away, so when they open it you’re gone and they are so confused on how the trick worked

@r34ct4

29 күн бұрын

*Derren Brown has entered the chat*

@Ejemplo-lz8ql

27 күн бұрын

"You picked 37"

I'm an air traffic controller and sometimes we have to estimate (or rather) calculate the arrival times of aircraft for the next sector or arrival airport. When I still was a trainee, one of my coaches said to me: "A good estimate ends on 3 or 7, then your coordination partner will think it's actually calculated and not rounded."

@noambbyp

29 күн бұрын

We were taught to just ask the pilots

I add something, In circuit the time constant Tau, is the time duration where the voltage decreases from 100% to around ~63%, or decrease by 37%

I would really like to see this experiment done but asking specifically “pick a number between one and one hundred” removing the word “random” from the question and see if the results are the same cuz something tells me using the “random” has a priming effect on the person being asked the question… similar to how you can ask the same question to the same person just in different ways and get totally different answers.

I had a maths professor who used 37 as the standin for "any" number. He was onto something.

@benjym9905

29 күн бұрын

Kevin??

@0rphio333

29 күн бұрын

You commented this 37 min ago

@SoloLevellor

29 күн бұрын

I want to know that something

@c_sea1n

29 күн бұрын

@@SoloLevellor you commented this 37 seconds ago

@averagelizard2489

29 күн бұрын

​@@c_sea1nYou commented that 37 minutes ago

69 being the most chosen number pretty much sums up our humor on the internet

@Pantherjonvideos

29 күн бұрын

harumph...they say 69 is THE number, but it isn't; 77 is..Why? Because you get 8 more.... think about it.. think about it.. mind in the gutter? now you got it! :)

@Paladiea

29 күн бұрын

69 likes. Nice

@MP-qu2yo

29 күн бұрын

The fact that he said "let's remove 69 because it's not random" and provided no further explanation as to why it's not random made me curious. Then I realized smart audience will figure it out 😂

I just got an ad on this video from Turbo Tax about filing this year and they said roughly "37% of taxpayers qualify" I had to take a screenshot to save it as proof. 😂😂😂

clicked the video because i like numbers, I wasn't disappointed at all, great video

This is mind-blowing!!! Here are numbers that can be divided by 37 (from 1 to 1000): 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, 999 And also 148 and rotation (481, 814), 185 and rotation (518, 851), 259 and rotation (592, 925), 296 and rotation (629, 962), 370 and rotation (037, 703), 407 and rotation (740, 074)

@Fritz_Schlunder

26 күн бұрын

Yeah? Also: 666 / 37 = 18. While simultaneously, 6 + 6 + 6 = 18. Also: 444 / 37 = 12. While simultaneously, 4 + 4 + 4 = 12. Also: 111 / 37 = 3. While simultaneously, 1 + 1 +1 = 3. Meh'. Color me unimpressed. The world is not going to end due to some numerical coincidences. The world will go on.

@crimpinurpimpin

26 күн бұрын

Y’all just f’d me up with all these numbers on top of more numbers. I’m going to have a math based nightmare tonight.

@tnt-boom

25 күн бұрын

This is crazy. Math is cool​@@Fritz_Schlunder

@corvid-1950

25 күн бұрын

This is absolutely incredible. It means nothing, but it's amazing lol

@karanupamanyu

25 күн бұрын

111 is a common factor for the rest of the numbers, so it’s just a coincidence- it looks cooler than it actually is. But a really neat coincidence none. But that’s the whole feeling 37 has to it…

This man who collects 37 is basically just a happier version of the film the number 23 and i love it.

@somethingelse516

29 күн бұрын

Came here for a 23 reference

As soon as I clicked on the video I looked up at my percentage it said 37%😭😭my mind... Is blown

I used to play Planetarion 25 years ago and my planet was #37 out of 40 in my group. Since then 37 has been my favorite number... Also the number 3 and 7 goes again and again in many of the old fiction stories. 7 dwarves 3 little pigs

the fact that the answer to the answer to life, the universe, and everything wasn't 37 makes 42 crazier

@geoffwales8646

29 күн бұрын

Damn, you beat me to it.

@Narveloz

29 күн бұрын

Like in the video you need to pass the first 37%, and pick the best after 42 seems to be the answer for some, as much as 69 for others

@cameroncorrado3935

29 күн бұрын

I wanna know in what base 42 equals thirty-seven. Can anyone help me with this?

@samagraarohan2513

29 күн бұрын

​@@cameroncorrado3935this wasn't particularly difficult. its base (35/4) or base 8.75

@karanlahoria

29 күн бұрын

Make sense

I am surprised that you didn't mention selection bias, I think that's a huge factor of "it appears everywhere"

@Jimmyhendrix234

29 күн бұрын

Right? There is some logic to the 'feeling' more random. So it shows up more in art. The rest is just selection bias.

@notsurefornow69

29 күн бұрын

THIS COMMENT HAS 37 LIKES LOL

@dominicellis1867

29 күн бұрын

@@Jimmyhendrix234this whole study is so arbitrary. ATHF has a bit about this in their hundredth episode. If you hyper fixate on any one number, you’ll find it everywhere.

@Giantcrabz

29 күн бұрын

i get stuck on 88s

@byeFofiko1

29 күн бұрын

Like the fact that he excluded the first and last numbers. Like, people chose those, why exactly are they being excluded?

7:28 actually there is a consistent formula which is There always a odd number between prime numbers which goes up everything prime numbers go up

"Not convinced yet?" *cuts to ad with the number 37 in it*

What's more insane now, is that as I'm watching this, this video is ranked #37 in Trending.

@yiannikades4146

26 күн бұрын

Same lol

@petem9607

26 күн бұрын

37 likes 😮

@seanmanzanares438

26 күн бұрын

73 likes

@JackTheOrangePumpkin

26 күн бұрын

Same lol

@yegventures

26 күн бұрын

14 hr later it's still #37 trending

I’m so saddened by the fact that we did not learn the trick to find if a number is divisible by 37

@divyanshuryuzaki1510

29 күн бұрын

any number which is multiple of 10101 is divisible by 37 as 10101= 3x7x13x37 to simplify a number of pattern "ABABAB" is divisible by 37 where A and B can be same. and this trick works for A,B ranging from 1 to 99 after that I don't know

@Terszel

29 күн бұрын

Right? Why even show that segment

@KrasBadan

29 күн бұрын

​@@divyanshuryuzaki1510I figured it out. 37|10101 37|111 Take 352684, subtract 35•10101. We get -851. Add 8•111. We get 37. It is divisible by 37. Or, alternatively, for any number just say that it is not divisibe by 37 and you'll be right in 36/37 of cases. Very computationally efficient.

@Beautiful_Sound_1995

28 күн бұрын

37 likes on this comment as of me writing this.

@MyAwfulUsername

28 күн бұрын

It's on his website The method: Divide the number up in groups of three digits, starting from the right. (The left-most group may not have three digits.) Add the groups together. If the result is still longer than three digits, repeat steps 1 and 2. When you finish this you have a three-digit (or smaller) number which can be quickly examined for divisibility by 37. The original number is divisible by 37 if and only if this three-digit number is. For short numbers: For one-digit and two-digit numbers, it's pretty trivial: the only ones divisible by 37 are 37 and 74. For three-digit numbers what I do is compare the number to a nearby multiple of 37 -- in particular, a nearby multiple of 111. For example, 291 differs from 222 by 69, and 69 is not divisible by 37, so 291 is not divisible by 37. On the other hand, 925 differs from 999 by 74, so 925 is divisible by 37.

I've always been attracted towards 3 and 7 separately because on a scale of 1 2 (3) 4 5 6 (7) 8 9 "all single diget numbers" 3 and 7 land evenly spaced. I think this is honestly the easiest assumption of why we as pattern recognition machines draw towards it even if it's subconscious.