The Problem with 7825 - Numberphile

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  • @Qba116
    @Qba116 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1189

    I love these classic Numberphile videos where James Grime talks about one particular number

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  6 ปีที่แล้ว +366

      So do we.

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      make a table of video of every real number like periodic video

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Can we add the sequence of numbers that numberphile has covered in the order they made the videos to the integer sequence database?

    • @Taquilou
      @Taquilou 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@numberphile I only watch videos where James appear.

    • @Kirkezz
      @Kirkezz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@revenevan11 numberphile numbers

  • @dominicsaavedra5113
    @dominicsaavedra5113 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3276

    Probably my favorite guy on Numberphile.

    • @conoroneill8067
      @conoroneill8067 6 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      He has his own channel as well, where he posts similar stuff (it's called singingbanana, though I don't know why). It's pretty inactive, but you can binge on some of his older videos if you haven't seen them.

    • @edwardteach841
      @edwardteach841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      i dont think i could ever like anyone more than i like cliff stoll

    • @superoctave
      @superoctave 6 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      James Grime and Matt Parker are my favorites!

    • @muizzsiddique
      @muizzsiddique 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      "Singing banana" captures his personality very well.

    • @christophgrun5636
      @christophgrun5636 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I think they are all very likable - and with very different personalities - but there is something very special about James :)

  • @victor3582
    @victor3582 6 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    I can feel 7825. When I go somewhere where everyone is having a good time, everything stops when I get there.

    • @emadgergis6710
      @emadgergis6710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      100th like I know you don't care.

    • @searchwithin1414
      @searchwithin1414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OMG... that is hilarious!!!

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Especially when the address says 78125 and you are lost

    • @thorodinson6649
      @thorodinson6649 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brendawilliams8062 bad take

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thorodinson6649 look Thor grab 1001035 and let’s trash the place

  • @lewkforce
    @lewkforce 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Interesting how 7, 8, 2, and 5 were the digits for 7,825 which also gave you the original issue in a+b=c.

  • @nigellafarage7323
    @nigellafarage7323 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3382

    *_lol blue and red makes purple, so 7825 is purple, silly mathematicians_*

    • @CraftQueenJr
      @CraftQueenJr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I know!

    • @brcoutme
      @brcoutme 6 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      James Grime said it wrong though, it doesn't need to be red and blue. It needs to be neither red nor blue... so 7825 is obviously yellow, but that leads back to his question at the end of the video of what if their were 3 or more colors would it inevitably still reach a point when it no longer works (assuming a finite number of colors).

    • @superherothijs12321
      @superherothijs12321 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      with my experience of mixing multiple colors I bet you 7825 will be brown

    • @bibasik7
      @bibasik7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      7825 is purple? I didn't know a number could be comfortable!
      And don't you wind up about powder. The powder is harmless.

    • @user-ft4pb5vb3e
      @user-ft4pb5vb3e 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thijs van Dijk
      I mean, it's a sort of splitting-the-difference-between-purple-and-brown sort of color.

  • @littlebigcomrade
    @littlebigcomrade 6 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    Ramsay theory : The formula to find lamb sauce.

    • @bcdm999
      @bcdm999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Expressed by the notation LS=f*ck

    • @badhbhchadh
      @badhbhchadh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      * Ramsey

    • @clovermx1472
      @clovermx1472 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Badhbhchadh no. It is ramsay

    • @prithvip6360
      @prithvip6360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its bland.

    • @lunaros4209
      @lunaros4209 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you don't understand it, you're a sack of yankee dankee doodle shite.

  • @IanJeffray
    @IanJeffray 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2298

    That blue pen appears rather green

    • @dvoraj20
      @dvoraj20 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      It is an optical illusion caused by rather specific lighting condition. It is the same effect that occasionally makes the light from a row from four lightbulbs occasionally appear to be concentrated in a row of five point sources instead.

    • @chaosme1ster
      @chaosme1ster 6 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      Parker pen

    • @alexanderf8451
      @alexanderf8451 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Oh no its another controversy

    • @user-rh8hi4ph4b
      @user-rh8hi4ph4b 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Jan Dvořák
      It's not an optical illusion, i checked with a color picker. Its hue in HSL format is 159 which is pretty much green (a little bit on the turquoise side, but still objectively green).

    • @fatsquirrel75
      @fatsquirrel75 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Can't help but picture Picard: "There ... are ... four .... lights !!!"

  • @FlightGearUser
    @FlightGearUser 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1081

    I have to do some calculus exercises...
    Me: "Okay, right now I'm absolutely not in the 'math-mood', let's just do other things first."
    *Numberphile just uploaded a video*
    Also me: Let's just watch this...

    • @leonthethird7494
      @leonthethird7494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      what is the derivative of an inverse function

    • @AuroraNora3
      @AuroraNora3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      depends

    • @FlightGearUser
      @FlightGearUser 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Maybe use that (f^(-1))' (y) = 1/f'(x) as long as f'(x) =/= 0 and assuming that f is differentiable? :)

    • @AuroraNora3
      @AuroraNora3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      pentix
      I think you mean f'(x)≠0

    • @FlightGearUser
      @FlightGearUser 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks, obviously it shouldn't have a pole at x=0, therefore f'(x) ≠0 :)

  • @dothemaths1256
    @dothemaths1256 6 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    I always get excited when James grime is on numberphile

  • @Willzp360
    @Willzp360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Fine example of a Parker Grid at 2:31 there James

    • @soulsilversnorlax1336
      @soulsilversnorlax1336 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Will Price
      Ah, yes. The Parker Grid, the ideal space for containing a Parker Square.

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Except he already knew he was going to fail.

  • @maxpeeters8688
    @maxpeeters8688 6 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Absolutely loves James Grime, always a pleasure to see him featured on Numberphile again.

  • @darmstadtschaa
    @darmstadtschaa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "imagine all supercomputers in the world checking all the posibilities since the dawn of time you still wont be able to check all the posibilities ... so they used some clever mathematics to reduce the number they had to check, and it took them about 2 days" i snorted when i heard this, but this is actually great!

  • @numera8892
    @numera8892 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    James Grime appears in my subscription box: instant view.

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      That’s what we like to hear.

  • @midiphy
    @midiphy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    ...and those two days of supercomputation probably cost more than 100$ :)

    • @Ridgwaycer
      @Ridgwaycer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      That's what grant money is for.

    • @dockmeister8480
      @dockmeister8480 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I think the check itself is worth more than 100$, so its even.

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The university pays for the electricity.

    • @tonyennis3008
      @tonyennis3008 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      WE pay for the electricity.

    • @djjimmaster8261
      @djjimmaster8261 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FOR SCIENCE!

  • @themeeman
    @themeeman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +605

    I bet I could do this for a^3 + b^3 = c^3

    • @mathpin
      @mathpin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +248

      Clingfilm Productions that would be very interesting to see XD! But will your proof fit in the margin of a book?

    • @nivolord
      @nivolord 6 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      I can do it with one colour.

    • @blackmagic3286
      @blackmagic3286 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      that's a joke about Fermat last theorem.

    • @dlevi67
      @dlevi67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Clingfilm Productions Indeed, o man full of wiles. I'll raise you one and bet I can do a^4 + b^4 = c^4 in about the same time as you do the cubes.

    • @elzian4975
      @elzian4975 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I might be able to do for both a^3 + b^3 = c^3 and a^4 + b^4 = c^4 at the same time, although you need to give me some time.

  • @hOREP245
    @hOREP245 6 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    it doesn't look blue because it's on brown paper.

    • @SashaFierceBadass
      @SashaFierceBadass 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If you draw on it with a yellow marker it would look orange.

    • @gabydewilde
      @gabydewilde 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      but thats a story for a different video

    • @zetacon4
      @zetacon4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I thought the reason was video coloration problems. Having experience with that very thing, that is my first guess. If someone can prove me wrong, that would be interesting also.

    • @NondescriptMammal
      @NondescriptMammal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that makes sense, neutral browns are basically dark shades of yellow

    • @razzpup7961
      @razzpup7961 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s looks green

  • @zappawoman5183
    @zappawoman5183 6 ปีที่แล้ว +529

    I have synaesthesia only where numbers are concerned. As a child, I was trying to find a way to make the numbers add up in such a way that their respective colours would blend to give me the correct colour for their total. I quickly ran into the same problem you guys did.

    • @ciarfah
      @ciarfah 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Interesting!

    • @cubethesquid3919
      @cubethesquid3919 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      That's interesting! I wonder if I have synaesthesia, except with feelings. I have certain emotions associated with numbers, and often, based only on how I feel about a given number, I can tell if it is prime. For example, 167. It feels sharp, and makes me feel edgy. One day, I was talking to my mom about my "synaesthesia", and threw out that number because it felt prime. Then, a few minutes later I looked it up, and sure enough! 167 is prime.

    • @captapraelium1591
      @captapraelium1591 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The trick to making this work is to assign numbers to colours in a balanced fashion, rather than linear. As in, red = 1 orange = 2 .....violet = 7, won't work. It would need to be arranged like the Chinese Bagua, where the opposing number was actually opposed on the spectrum.
      Of course, with synaesthesia, you don't get to choose the assignments so whether it works would depend on your particular individual affliction. Sorry to hear you lucked out :( That would have been really frustrating!

    • @ianw8479
      @ianw8479 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cube the Squid I def have some version of this as well lol

    • @Tumbolisu
      @Tumbolisu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Colors are a three dimensional thing to our brains. This means you will always need three numbers to represent a color in a unique way. Single numbers just won't cut it.

  • @assiddiq7360
    @assiddiq7360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "The number 7825 must be both red and blue, which it can't"
    Superposition: "Bonjour"

    • @BidenBlessesYou
      @BidenBlessesYou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      well actually, 7825 must be none of red and blue.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually, it has to be neither or red or blue; if it’s either color, there is a trip,e of one color.

    • @alexandermcclure6185
      @alexandermcclure6185 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It is in the superposition |R>|B>|R'>|B'>!
      (did I get the notation right?)

  • @kasturi-725
    @kasturi-725 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Whenever there are videos with James in it, I never hesitate to see it at that instant.

  • @almightyhydra
    @almightyhydra 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    For the a + b = c case, there are really only 3 options, not 512 - either 1 and 2 are (say) red and 3 blue, or 1 and 2 are different colours and 3 is red or blue. The other colours are derived from there until it becomes impossible.

    • @grahamrich9956
      @grahamrich9956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      almightyhydra Hence why he said that it was easy to convince yourself it was true instead of simply checking every possible combination of red and blue for every space.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Four options, actually, because if 1 and 2 are the same colour, 4 can be the same colour as either 1 or 3.

    • @Muhahahahaz
      @Muhahahahaz ปีที่แล้ว

      There are exactly 512 ways to assign the colors. Whether those colors actually follow the rules or not is up for you to decide
      Yes, you can reduce this space through logic. This is the kind of work mathematicians do all the time, but it’s not always so trivial to do so :)

  • @erickvillegas8327
    @erickvillegas8327 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Cool! I just learned how to come up with pythagorean triples. One of the side affects of watching numberphile: you might accidently learn something.

  • @snoopdogg2912
    @snoopdogg2912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    5:30 Actually Ramsays theory allows you to solve for the location of the lamb sauce .

    • @andrjsjan4231
      @andrjsjan4231 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where you referring your joke to the famous chef gordon Ramsay??.

    • @thinebeatingstick
      @thinebeatingstick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andrjsjan4231 what does it look like

    • @andrjsjan4231
      @andrjsjan4231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Sowierszenko like your mom opssss by the way I didn’t understand your joke?

  • @psyched1639
    @psyched1639 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is probably the least click-baity title I've ever seen. That's something I really like about this channel.

  • @jasmin7168
    @jasmin7168 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Aaaaahh! I've missed seeing James!! 🤗🤗

  • @driptcg
    @driptcg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I laughed so hard when he so calmly said "so they reduced the number of scenarios they had to check to about 3 Trillion" XDD

  • @ikchess
    @ikchess 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Always enthusiastic, always interesting. So glad James Grime does these.

  • @daanwilmer
    @daanwilmer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This problem reminded me of a project I did five or six years ago in university, which was also about finding sets of numbers without a certain structure - in our case, we studied Szemerédi's Theorem - and we were using SAT solvers to do this. Turns out that this work is from our supervisor at that time - Marijn Heule was our supervisor. And, indeed he used SAT solvers to create this proof.
    A little background: SAT this is the satisfiability problem, which asks "given a set of boolean variables (which can be either on or off) and a set of constraints on these variables, is there an assignment of values to these variables that satisfies these constraints?". You can translate the pythagorean triplets problem into SAT in its most basic form by creating a variable for each number from 1 to n, and creating a constraint for each pythagorean triplet stating that of the three variables corresponding to the three numbers at least one must be true (red) and at least one must be false (blue). If there is a solution for this SAT problem, then there is also a solution for the original problem, by colouring the numbers red if the variable is true, and blue if the variable is false.
    The main advantage of this approach is that SAT is quite a well-known problem, having quite efficient solvers. I can imagine that someone must have created an efficient SAT solver for supercomputers, or at least the Texas supercomputer, as well. This way it would be relatively simple to tap into the huge amount of computing power available in an efficient way (which is really hard if you're doing that from scratch).
    If I'm making it sound easy: it's not. The basics are quite easy to grasp (and can be coded in 30 lines of C), but in order to get an answer for these huge problems in a useful amount of time, you need to optimize your translation. This requires thorough knowledge of both the solver and the problem, to translate the problem in a way that is most meaningful to the solver. And finally, you need to handle all the data and include it in your proof.

  • @nouche
    @nouche 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Number: **exists**
    Numberphile: Do you have a problem?

  • @farisakmal2722
    @farisakmal2722 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    this problem reminds me of the 17 sudoku clues problem

  • @badlydrawnturtle8484
    @badlydrawnturtle8484 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The time estimate for a brute force approach is a bit off, because you don't have to check all of the possibilities. As soon as you come across a contradiction, you can stop and go on to the next set. Similarly, you only actually have to check 4 of the “512” combinations for the introductory problem to prove it never works (and indeed if you expanded the introductory problem to an arbitrary number of integers, you would never have to check more than those 4).

  • @yuvalxp8
    @yuvalxp8 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the most fascinating videos you've ever uploaded ! Great one !

  • @seanspartan2023
    @seanspartan2023 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ramsey theory has always fascinated me. Thank you so much for this video!

  • @anacarolinaclauss3105
    @anacarolinaclauss3105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    how he is amazed about what he's talking about, it's contagious :)

  • @hornick18
    @hornick18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I almost never understand this channel, but I love it anyway

  • @maureenbailey6532
    @maureenbailey6532 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love watching your channel! It’s the never ending pursuit of beauty!

  • @jaythompson7149
    @jaythompson7149 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where have you been James?! My favorite numberphile guy! Glad to see you back! J

  • @princevegeta5907
    @princevegeta5907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    *625² + 7800² = 7825²*
    *5180² + 5865² = 7825²*
    WTH, how will we construct a right triangle with this?

    • @sadkritx6200
      @sadkritx6200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's possible. The two right triangles are different. Using inverse trig functions the first one has angles 90, 85.42(approx) and 4.58(approx)
      The second right triangle has angles 90, 48.55(approx) and 41.45(approx)
      In fact I think this type of triangle seems to be rare in this case since we're using whole numbers. Otherwise we would have infinitely many such right triangles having same hypotenuse. Suppose we have a constant hypotenuse 'x' unit. The other sides are a and b. So, a=root(x^2-b2). Since x constant you can choose infinite values of b to get infinite values of a. Just make sure 0

    • @adraedin
      @adraedin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know this is an old post but someone else might stumble here...
      It's the Pythagorean theorem (using really big numbers).
      The theorem states that "in a right triangle a² + b² = c². Where side c is the side opposite the right angle."
      In other words, if there were a right angled triangle with side (a) being 3 units long, side (b) being 4 units and you were looking for side (c)...
      c² = a² + b²
      c² = 3² + 4²
      c² = 9 + 16
      c² = 25
      c = (sqrt) 25 (*sqrt 25 to remove the exponent from c)
      c = 5
      Using this formula and some trig, so long as you know the length of 2 sides and that the triangle has a 90 degree angle, you can find the length of the remaining side and the other 2 angles. (That's what Sadman did above.)
      In the case of 7825 being c, there are two ways to form a right angled triangle and either option they choose of the two won't allow them to color the chart correctly to meet the other requirements and it ends their little game.

    • @princevegeta5907
      @princevegeta5907 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adraedin Thanks a lot. That's very helpful

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s saying that if you construct a triangle with sides 625-7800-7825 or 5180-5865-7825, one of the angles of the triangle (the one opposite the 7825) is a right angle.

  • @FinetalPies
    @FinetalPies 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video, love that we're discussing a specific number

  • @markphc99
    @markphc99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Furthermore, I notice that Mr Heule has been working on Polymath 16 (the Hadwiger-Nelson problem) and just broken his own record for the smallest unit-distance graph with chromatic number 5.This follows the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey, although I imagine this record may not hold for very long, considering the great progress now being made in this area.It's not so difficult to explain .. so maybe a future numberphile video please?

  • @KpxUrz5745
    @KpxUrz5745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He is just fantastic. Loves numbers. Loves math. Is completely consumed by his wonderful passion. And does his very best to spread the thrill and excitement.

  • @wanderingrandomer
    @wanderingrandomer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    That blue pen didn't look very blue to me

    • @matejcataric2259
      @matejcataric2259 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree ahahahah

    • @H0tdogCat
      @H0tdogCat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      probably the yellow-ish paper mixing to make it look green!

    • @aminulhuda4025
      @aminulhuda4025 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nelson Goodman says hi to you

    • @user-sh6wr7dq6k
      @user-sh6wr7dq6k 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      WanderingRandomer perfect amount of blue in the video

    • @dvoraj20
      @dvoraj20 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is an optical illusion caused by rather specific lighting condition.
      It is the same effect that occasionally makes the light from a row from
      four lightbulbs occasionally appear to be concentrated in a row of five
      point sources instead.

  • @a-blivvy-yus
    @a-blivvy-yus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If there is always a number you'll reach where these equations break once you count high enough, wouldn't this calculation reflect entropy? With entropy, systems lose organisation over time. With these patterns, the number you reach before being forced into a 3-of-a-kind pattern gets higher as you add more colours. So wouldn't it be possible that this equation could end up having relevance to the concept of entropy if and when we solve it?

    • @Muhahahahaz
      @Muhahahahaz ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s actually kind of the opposite. If more related numbers have the same color, then that represents more structure, which is to say less entropy
      (The reason they are playing this specific game, avoiding 3 numbers of the same color, is that they want to see how *big* the system has to be before structure is forced to appear)
      Thus Ramsey Theory says that large mathematical objects often have some inherent structure, or emergent properties, which actually act against entropy!
      I feel like this connects to the structure of matter and the Universe in some way - Some matter/energy arrangements are just far more stable/favorable! Especially when moving towards larger scales
      (Yes, over long time scales, eventually all order will disappear as entropy increases. But in the meantime, it’s truly remarkable how organized and structured everything seems to be)

  • @davidschneide5422
    @davidschneide5422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These videos have no expiration date. Enthusiasm for mathematics is everlasting.

  • @charlottedarroch
    @charlottedarroch 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you extend the case of sums of first powers to 3 colours (so we're excluding monochromatic triples (a,b,a+b), where a and b are distinct), then you can go at least as far as 22, using colour classes {1,2,4,8,11,16,22}, {3,5,6,10,12,19,20,21} and {7,9,13,14,15,17,18}.

  • @hellishemo
    @hellishemo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I found a pattern where a^2+b^2=(b+p)^2 made pythagorean triples if p was a factor of a. (lowest factor being 2 if a is even)
    I noticed in the video that for 7825; the two triples that make it up one of the two follow this pattern, and the other does not.. Namely 5180^2+5865^2=(5865+1960)^2 .. obviously 1960 is not a factor of 5180 in this case whereas 625^2+7800^2=(7800+25)^2 is.
    It could be nothing, but.. This was the first time I've come across a case where the a pythagorean triple exists that doesn't fit the above format. (p not being a factor of a). Perhaps this is why?

    • @dlevi67
      @dlevi67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Um, 7, 24, 25?

    • @yondaime500
      @yondaime500 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      If you expand (b+p)² and cancel out b², you're left with a² = p(2b + p). So p (which is c - b) being a factor of a² is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a Pythagorean triple. I don't know how often it turns out that p is a factor of a, but I see quite a few examples on Wikipedia where this condition is not verified, regardless of which number you pick as a: (20, 21, 29), (33, 56, 65), (48, 55, 73), (65, 72, 97) etc.

    • @TheEclecticity
      @TheEclecticity 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yondaime500 more like a commonplace but not necessary condition. Let's move away from the cliché "necessary but not sufficient" which is tired, over-used and has become beyond vague.

  • @ThatsWhatTheManWants
    @ThatsWhatTheManWants 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Shout out to the nail and gear in the background!

    • @numberphile
      @numberphile  6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The Mighty Nail and Gear.

    • @WilcoVerhoef
      @WilcoVerhoef 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@numberphile I wonder where it is now

  • @hammer5064
    @hammer5064 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Then proving that, for n colors, there will always be a perfect square which can be written as the sum of n other perfect squares and that those pairs must be the same color will prove the conjecture?

    • @hammer5064
      @hammer5064 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would probably be ridiculous to prove, though

  • @pelerflyp5398
    @pelerflyp5398 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:32 omg I tried to find this for such a long time thank you!

  • @igt3928
    @igt3928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +507

    What, a new Internet Comment Etiquette AND a new Numberphile video at the same time? is it Christmas already??''

    • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
      @imveryangryitsnotbutter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But it's not even July!

    • @styloyt
      @styloyt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Aleatorio can’t wait for the collaboration

    • @y.h.w.h.
      @y.h.w.h. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      stylo big money salvia here bouncing on my boy's number?

    • @MilChamp1
      @MilChamp1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      imagine the venn diagram of the fans of both channels

    • @faith3174
      @faith3174 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Bush did 9/11
      (_)(_)::::::::::::::::::D~~~~~~~~~~~@tedcruz~~~~~

  • @steliostoulis1875
    @steliostoulis1875 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I missed you Professor Grime 💕

  • @henrikhaverinen3135
    @henrikhaverinen3135 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This vid popped on my recommendations and I'm first time watching this channel. Mby not the biggest fan of math but I absolutely love how passionate and happy this guy is when explaining all this :D

  • @SimonClarkstone
    @SimonClarkstone 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Related trivia: Ramsey Theory you mentioned and a vaguely similar problem about graph colouring is where we got the gigantic Graham's Number from.

  • @HorrorGamesITA
    @HorrorGamesITA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "It can't be red and blue at the same time"
    Violet: bonjour

  • @poorman-trending
    @poorman-trending 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can you talk about other patterns showing in the image? I see a lot of vertical lines.

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's just a consequence of the size of the grid they used

  • @heyandy889
    @heyandy889 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that James is still a guest on this channel. I think he was in the very first Numberphile video. That was like 5 years ago, wasn't it? Holy mackerel.

  • @indian_scouser_ynwa
    @indian_scouser_ynwa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always happy to see James on numberphile😄

  • @detectivejonesw
    @detectivejonesw 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    whats the name of the generalized version of this problem

    • @DDvargas123
      @DDvargas123 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe what you are looking for is Ramsey Theory?

  • @mstrainjr
    @mstrainjr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    7:52 - That's okay, you just have to defragment it and that will make the red go away. Or am I misunderstanding the problem?

  • @smergthedargon8974
    @smergthedargon8974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:50
    He turns into Michael Rosen for a split second when saying "twelve".

  • @garrettducat5769
    @garrettducat5769 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If everyone had a teacher/professor as excited about Math as James then everyone would be a mathematician.

  • @davidnacin7777
    @davidnacin7777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video, though I'd mention that the Babylonians were making lists of Pythagorean triples long before the Greeks!

  • @YYHoe
    @YYHoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7825 should be either:
    1. In a superposition of red and blue
    2. Purple or violet

  • @adolfodef
    @adolfodef 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Everybody knows *42* is the base number system used by the computronium running our reality [actually, it is _Quadragesimal_ (40) plus an independent "C.R.C." on _Binary_ (2)].
    -> Knowing that *7825* is part of the equation leading to the "seed" used on this _particular run_ on the multiverse will get us closer to formulate the ultimate question.

  • @zetacon4
    @zetacon4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a fun video. I saw immediately that 1 thru 9 was impossible to not duplicate the same color. It happened for me when he showed the number 9 would be red. Bingo! That did it.
    Then, when he was discussing the 7825 number, I knew it was too large to ever examine every possibility. That somebody narrowed just a subset to 1 trillion was amazing, and then took 2 days to run the sets, was also thrilling to me. This sort of problem is what makes math so wonderful and inviting to me.

  • @MathieuGuimondMorganti
    @MathieuGuimondMorganti 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would've loved to have you as my math teacher.

  • @AlexKing-tg9hl
    @AlexKing-tg9hl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who else is here just because it has James Grime in it?

  • @kennethgee2004
    @kennethgee2004 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    well this problem is also connected to fermat's last theorem as anything in the form a^n+b^n=c^n is part of the theory. If you noticed thought he addition of 1 to 9 also add the same issue as 7825. There are two sets of possible additions for 5 and 8 that break down the rules. 9 is another example of two pairs that are in opposite colors, so not matter what is chosen the coloring breaks. we might want to stick to the addition to understand this problem. multiplying is only causing us greater amount of work.

  • @EliasMheart
    @EliasMheart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this guy. Great enthusiasm and explanations combined :)
    But also... Is that a CGP Grey Symbol in the background? :D

  • @omarsamraxyz
    @omarsamraxyz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even tho I'm a tenth grader, and sometimes I don't decipher completely what numberphile's guests are explaining, but I still love this chanel😍.

  • @sunshine_tidings6983
    @sunshine_tidings6983 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "I didn't do it. I failed."
    So this is a Grime Square™?

  • @wasabiwon6037
    @wasabiwon6037 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t know what this man is saying but his excitement sells me every time.

  • @jobesoffa7516
    @jobesoffa7516 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are great videos, enjoy them a lot, I always wonder how things would change if using a different base, instead of base 10. how would the maths change

  • @gabek7759
    @gabek7759 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    8:52 3.6 x 10^2355, for the record.

  • @gamemeister27
    @gamemeister27 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It does strike me as a potentially useful step in understanding why this is the case in that having a brute force example may help mathematicians identify patterns that hadn't been tangible before.

    • @pierrestober3423
      @pierrestober3423 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      one color->5
      two colors ->7825
      Not a very useful pattern (though I understand what you mean to say )

    • @mnikhk
      @mnikhk 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      We'll that's what they do lot of times

    • @pierrestober3423
      @pierrestober3423 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mnikhk what ?

  • @johnwighton3227
    @johnwighton3227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is the same limit encountered in octal or hexadecimal or does it only apply to decimal calculations?

  • @mathonthego1947
    @mathonthego1947 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    James Grimes on Numberphile! Always a great watch when he is the featured mathematician.

  • @eudoxoludwig5475
    @eudoxoludwig5475 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Me gustaria que hayan subtitulos en español, la verdad me gusta mucho este canal pero no se mucho inglés. Seria una gran ayuda para mi y para una gran cantidad de hispanohablantes seguidores de este canal.

  • @falnica
    @falnica 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And how can we use these results?

    • @falnica
      @falnica 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It will definitely be used in the future, but I'm really curious about how!

  • @samhill1660
    @samhill1660 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love Dr. Grime's enthusiasm.

  • @ShadSterling
    @ShadSterling 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd be interested to see a graph theoretic approach; this strikes me as a variation on the many graph coloring problems.

  • @ryanstevens199
    @ryanstevens199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gotta love how briskly and casually he goes through the method of creating a Pythagorean triple. That could be its own whole video!

  • @Triumvirate888
    @Triumvirate888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I wonder if this has something to do with the built-in limitations in DNA.

  • @kartoffelmozart
    @kartoffelmozart 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man I love this guy. Now I totally wanna study on stampede uni!

  • @Rodmantis
    @Rodmantis 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the first square (a+b=c) why would you have to check all the combinations? Wouldn't you just have to check three? Like, take 1+2=3 and color them RBB, RBR, RRB and build from there, and if it doesn't work wouldn't it mean all other combinations won't work either?

  • @beekeeperhoneymoon8179
    @beekeeperhoneymoon8179 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nail&Gear in the background

  • @gruntslayer3524
    @gruntslayer3524 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wait so is 7825 the first time there is a c in two Pythagorean tripled that have to be of opposite colors

    • @henryD9363
      @henryD9363 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spencer Schmidt -- I'm confused as well. Yes for 7824, no for 7825. But what about lower (and higher?) no's?

    • @gordslater
      @gordslater 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm a C shell user so consequently not the best person to ask, but I'm assuming it's more of a C++ thing. I feel old. Again

  • @ijpete98
    @ijpete98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not only is 7825 the sum of two distinct combinations of two perfect squares, but oddly enough, it's the difference of two perfect fourth powers:
    13^4 - 12^4 = 28561 - 20736 = 7825

  • @kieranczyzniejewski2178
    @kieranczyzniejewski2178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are there any pythagorean tripples where the 3 values are only either a prime or a perfect square?

  • @boltingmouse8262
    @boltingmouse8262 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The symbol in the picture in the background looks like CGP grey’s logo

  • @michaeleveritt3472
    @michaeleveritt3472 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    CGP gray print could not be unnoticed

  • @naumazeredo6448
    @naumazeredo6448 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Isn't it a 2SAT problem? You have O(N^2) pairs of numbers, and mark the pair if they have the same color. Seems to me that the problem would be O(N^4), since you you need to verify every pair of pairs that forms a pythagorian triple and assume that both pairs can't be marked. I'm probably missing something, but I don't know what yet

  • @darreljones8645
    @darreljones8645 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It turns out 9 is the smallest number for which the "a+b=c" coloring described at the start of the video is impossible. Here's one that works for 1 through 8: Color 1, 2, 4, and 8 red; color 3, 5, 6, and 7 blue.

  • @izhan6991
    @izhan6991 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey Brady, please resume making videos on the wordsoftheworld channel! Bring it back to its past glory

  • @all8273
    @all8273 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    These things are interesting, but what I would like to see in these videos is more explanation of why it matters.I know he talks about not knowing why it is true, but I want to know why it matters at all. Why does it matter if you can or can't color in numbers a certain color in a formula?

    • @anlumo1
      @anlumo1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      That's probably outside the scope of mathematics. For example, another similar problem is the graph coloring theorem. This actually is important in practice when you draw country maps, because it says that you will never need more than four colors (I think there's an older Numberphile video about this specifically).
      Maybe there's some similar application for this, but that's not the concern of mathematicians.

    • @Nickname006
      @Nickname006 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      That is not something mathematicians worry about. Physicists and engineers care about the use of these things. But first comes the discovery, then the application.

    • @Craichy
      @Craichy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I think the question of why it matters isn't a question for mathematics, it's a personal question. Because clearly it matters to him much more than it does to me, and maybe to you. He has a passion for math and for numbers, and passion is one of those things that the more you try to justify it to someone else, the muddier it gets. That isn't to say you can't share your passion with someone. But the more intense your interest in a field, the more alone you'll be.
      I think the reason this matters to this guy and to the people who did the research is because they like numbers and think this kind of thing is fun. With $100 at stake they're not in it for the money!
      Cheers!

    • @Benimation
      @Benimation 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's hard to tell what's going to be useful in the future..

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I'm reminded of the following quote:
      Reporter: Mr Mallory, why do you want to climb Mt Everest?
      George Mallory: Because it is there.
      Mathematicians are like George Mallory. They don't care about whether doing something is useful, only whether it can be done at all, and how.

  • @Kira_Pac
    @Kira_Pac 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does this mean there is a rectangle which has two sides unequal lengths from each other OR from the other two sides, yet can be split into two triangles sharing that hypotenuse?

  • @rabbitklr69
    @rabbitklr69 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there another 2 pythagorean triples sums that add up to the same sum? I am assuming not since my little mental session of counting and analysis of the creation of pythagorean triples doesn't look like it would. In the case of a^2 + B^2 =C^2, the only numbers that would need to be checked would be where SQRT C is a whole number. That would decrease the possible solution sets significantly. Then the set of squares adding up to half the set of the larger of the component square roots would decrease the possible solution set even further. The commutative property of addition means that once you did half, you would have done all unless a=b.

  • @drzl
    @drzl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Am I colorblind or is that blue green??

    • @yondaime500
      @yondaime500 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it's halfway between Battery charged blue and Deep green-cyan turquoise.

    • @trupalcanada
      @trupalcanada 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      blue on yellowish brown paper appears green

  • @xephren6557
    @xephren6557 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    nice nail and gear on the shelf

  • @glowstonelovepad9294
    @glowstonelovepad9294 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The furthest you can get with a+b=c is:
    1 - Red
    2 - Red
    3 - Blue
    4 - Red
    5 - Blue
    6 - Blue
    7 - Blue
    8 - Red
    (another solution is if you swap red and blue)

  • @JorgetePanete
    @JorgetePanete 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what about that but listing the ones that are in more than one pithagorean triple? with a color equal to red+blue (probably purple?)