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  • @SpeakShibboleth
    @SpeakShibboleth 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2476

    why use scissors? just use a numberfile.

    • @graduator14
      @graduator14 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      This joke is the pinnacle of this channel! We can all go home now. :^p

    • @poisonpotato1
      @poisonpotato1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Under appreciated pun

    • @Sunshine11229
      @Sunshine11229 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      oof.

    • @asad210
      @asad210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nice.

    • @tylerhecht3360
      @tylerhecht3360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ba Dum Tss
      (seriously, though, that was a legendary pun)

  • @cuitaro
    @cuitaro 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    sqrt(2): _happily exists irrationally_
    Tony: now this *ratio*

  • @TNTPablo
    @TNTPablo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1141

    The animator does an incredible job!

    • @thesuomi8550
      @thesuomi8550 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Thanks :)

    • @Stilllife1999
      @Stilllife1999 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Thanks. (it was me)

    • @eyflfla
      @eyflfla 6 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Yeah, numberphile's animations have gotten better over time. I also like how they're low key and in that same brown-paper hand-drawn style.

    • @nowonmetube
      @nowonmetube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thesuomi8550 no thanks, me it was!

    • @nowonmetube
      @nowonmetube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Stilllife1999 no, me x)

  • @kevinmackie4045
    @kevinmackie4045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    Can't wait for the Bronze ratio and the Honorable Mention ratios :)

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Participation ratios

    • @jwcfive7999
      @jwcfive7999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Can’t forget the steel ratio

    • @geraldsnodd
      @geraldsnodd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤣

    • @myboatforacar
      @myboatforacar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'm holding out for the tin ratio

    • @RWBHere
      @RWBHere ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Then there's the CdB ratio. No; not Cadmium Boride: It's the 'Could do Better' ratio.

  • @jeremyheminger6882
    @jeremyheminger6882 6 ปีที่แล้ว +496

    "Metallic Ratio" is the name of my new Tool tribute band.

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nice.

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Woah Mister Apple what're you doing in this comment section?

    • @Pfhorrest
      @Pfhorrest 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Are you going to produce n-bonacci variants of Lateralus?

    • @clyde8759
      @clyde8759 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeremy Heminger lol

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +fossilfighters101 I mean, right now I'm replying to your comment.

  • @distraughtification
    @distraughtification 6 ปีที่แล้ว +797

    That sounds like a way to count seconds.
    One-bonacci, two-bonacci, three-bonacci...

    • @maishamohiuddin297
      @maishamohiuddin297 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      tb to the americans cant count video

    • @otakuribo
      @otakuribo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      _one-bonacci_
      _two-bonacci_
      _red-bonacci_
      _blue-bonacci_

    • @MushookieMan
      @MushookieMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Count von Count says, One-bonacci, two-bonacci, three-bonacci, AH AH AH AH!

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      One-bonacci, two-bonacci, three-bonacci, four.
      Five-bonacci, six-bonacci, seven-bonacci, more.

    • @assassin01620
      @assassin01620 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      One-bonacci, two-bonacci, three-bonacci, four.
      Four bonaccis make a metallic ratio and so do many more!

  • @Artifexian
    @Artifexian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +767

    Amazing! Had no idea these existed.

    • @cuzeverynameistaken1283
      @cuzeverynameistaken1283 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Had no idea you watched numberphile. Ive been following you since 4000 subs

    • @harry_page
      @harry_page 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hey Edgar!

    • @Artifexian
      @Artifexian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Yup! Numberphile is one of my favourite channels.

    • @natheniel
      @natheniel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's one of everybody's favourite channels!

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      PBS Infinite Series had a video on these. If you like Numberphile, you'll probably also like them!

  • @matin563
    @matin563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I also like the fact that the golden ratio is pronounced as *fi* (phi) and it can be found in the *fi* bonacci sequence

    • @damianzieba5133
      @damianzieba5133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's why it is called fi

    • @EtienneBotek
      @EtienneBotek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@damianzieba5133 phi is for Φειδίας

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So do I 😎. Φbonacci.

    • @alexandermcclure6185
      @alexandermcclure6185 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PC_Simo Shouldn't it be φbonacci instead of φibonacci? φ sounds like fi, not not f.

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexandermcclure6185 True. I think my train of thought changed, mid-word. 🤔😅
      *EDIT:* I made the correction ✅😌👍🏻.

  • @AdeptAscent
    @AdeptAscent 6 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    This video and the golden ratio (why so irrational) video were the most fascinating two videos I have ever seen on this channel. I hope you guys do more videos on these metallic ratios and how weird they are

  • @flymypg
    @flymypg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I especially love Numberphile videos that provide generalizations, revealing the wider mathematical landscape extending from and encompassing a better known starting point.

  • @matthijshebly
    @matthijshebly 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The continued fractions are cool too and worth a mention:
    Golden ratio: 1 + 1 / (1 + 1 / (1 + 1 / (…)))
    Silver ration: 2 + 1 / (2 + 1 / (2 + 1 / (…)))
    Etc.
    Furthermore, you could expand into real numbers, with e.g. 3/2 giving an alloy of Gold and Silver, i.e. Electrum:
    0, 1, 3/2, 13/4, 51/8, 205/16, 819/32, …
    which quickly converges to a ratio of 2. Let's call 2 the Electric Ratio.
    The numerators of the fractions follow an interesting pattern:
    3 * 4 + 1 = 13
    13 * 4 - 1 = 51
    51 * 4 + 1 = 205
    205 * 4 - 1 = 819
    Etc.

  • @TheInselaffen
    @TheInselaffen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Britain; home of the Aluminium Falcon.

    • @halyoalex8942
      @halyoalex8942 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like an odd crossover of Iron Man and Falcon from Marvel...

  • @jamezer7revel471
    @jamezer7revel471 6 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    The ratios are winning some medals here

    • @Advection357
      @Advection357 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Just the gold counts.. the rest are participation trophies

    • @thelastspartanS117
      @thelastspartanS117 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hopefully no one MEDDLES in the award ceremony

    • @thelastspartanS117
      @thelastspartanS117 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im sure the ratios have the Mettle to withstand such buffoonery

    • @anticorncob6
      @anticorncob6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s
      Gold = 1
      Silver = 2
      Bronze = 3
      Just like medals in the Olympics.

    • @debayanbanerjee
      @debayanbanerjee 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jamezer7 Revel I think you meant 'metals'. Not medals. ;-)

  • @DeathlyTired
    @DeathlyTired 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    All of these ratios are very important, integral even, to design in modern artisitic origami; especially the most usual kind that develops from a single, uncut square, to the finished model.
    You could perhaps talk to luminaries of the field such as Dr. Robert Lang for the intersection betweeen mathematics, origami, and it's real world applications.

  • @pakfu
    @pakfu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’ve been on YT for like 12 yrs and this ranks in one of my favourite videos ever. Thank you so much.

  • @angst_
    @angst_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So, I love the format of your videos! Someone who's passionate about something explaining it to the viewer/Brady as if just having a conversation. Brady seems to talk juuust enough and asks the perfect questions to make the conversation flow.
    Plus these recent animations are top shelf art!

  • @SteamPunkLV
    @SteamPunkLV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    omg I hate when my nails looks like goddamn polygons xD

    • @ziquaftynny9285
      @ziquaftynny9285 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah, I didn't know people trimmed their nails like that. I usually cut them by the side then tear the rest off.

    • @munro22
      @munro22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Ziquafty Nny that’s not human

    • @ziquaftynny9285
      @ziquaftynny9285 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      No u

    • @EchoHeo
      @EchoHeo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ziquafty Nny
      yes me

    • @UnderscoreZeroLP
      @UnderscoreZeroLP 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I bite my nails. So much easier

  • @WolfWalrus
    @WolfWalrus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Of course, the Golden Ratio has the special property of allowing [Infinite Spin] according to the ancient Zeppeli family technique

    • @zanly5039
      @zanly5039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      and the silver ratio allows for the almost-infinite spin

    • @rubenbohorquez5673
      @rubenbohorquez5673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@zanly5039 ah yes, the TREE(3) spin, not infinite, but stupidly big!

    • @roskataka2574
      @roskataka2574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I see what you did there, fellow JoJo fan :

    • @ramiroseltzer5278
      @ramiroseltzer5278 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      the Golden Ratio also allows cripples on a horse and a wheelchair to walk... its amazing what math can do

    • @yazanabdalluh6251
      @yazanabdalluh6251 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zanly5039 no its for polnareffs silver chariot to spin

  • @akshat9282
    @akshat9282 6 ปีที่แล้ว +717

    *REPETITION REPETITION REPETITION*

    • @3ckitani
      @3ckitani 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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    • @cavorkehl6777
      @cavorkehl6777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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      @prasanttwo281 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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    • @Ready4Music
      @Ready4Music 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Repetition Repetition Repetition
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    • @CarelessMiss
      @CarelessMiss 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Akshat K Agarwal *REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION REPITITION*

  • @brnsndwch
    @brnsndwch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    6:40 P=NP solved

    • @efulmer8675
      @efulmer8675 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hah. That made me laugh.

  • @leoangere5310
    @leoangere5310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Copper, nickel... aluminium?" That one cracked me up.
    Awesome content as always. I'll have to use these metallic ratios in my photo cropping (I've used the golden rectangle but then defaulted to boring ratios like 1:2, 1:3, etc.)

  • @unknown360ful
    @unknown360ful 6 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Prof. TONY! The ratio videos are awesome!

  • @manueldelrio7147
    @manueldelrio7147 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love Tony's videos!

  • @whjk83921
    @whjk83921 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic episode! One of my absolute favorites!

  • @SNNTV3000
    @SNNTV3000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    surely then, the 49° one should become the peregrine ratio?

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ooh yeah!

    • @TheOzumat
      @TheOzumat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It needs to be named after a metal. Aluminium is actually really nice for this purpose, as it's associated with aviation, which in turn is associated with birds.

    • @theRealPlaidRabbit
      @theRealPlaidRabbit 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or "Pippin" for short.

    • @benjaminmiller3620
      @benjaminmiller3620 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Compromise and call it the Aluminium Falcon ratio?

    • @rewrose2838
      @rewrose2838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@benjaminmiller3620 Peregrin-inium

  • @OlbaidFractalium
    @OlbaidFractalium 6 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    Wow! I did not know The Great Wave of Hokusai is geometric designs.

    • @WildAnimalChannel
      @WildAnimalChannel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      yeah, if you fudge the results enough.

    • @donaldasayers
      @donaldasayers 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Looks more like a dragon curve to me.

    • @pleindespoir
      @pleindespoir 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hokusai >>> Hokuspokus

    • @BainesMkII
      @BainesMkII 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yeah, there was a *lot* of fudging required to make that painting fit the desired spirals. The best match was the middle spiral, and even there they had to cheat by jumping from the inside to the outside of the wave to get an overlap that ran for more than two and a half "squares". To fit the big spiral, they had to use two completely separate waves, half the length of the spiral matched nothing, and half of one of the waves didn't match. The small spiral didn't match at all; you could have claimed numerous random shapes matched as well as that small spiral.

    • @genghiskhan6688
      @genghiskhan6688 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Isn't it Kanagawa?

  • @yogitshankar6348
    @yogitshankar6348 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great to see Tony Padilla back!! Love the ratio videos

  • @nakamakai5553
    @nakamakai5553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a marine biologist, I love these. Forms like this pop up all over the undersea world, especially among invertebrates. Well done!

  • @wanderingrandomer
    @wanderingrandomer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    Ahh, this makes more sense
    People would always overlay the golden ratio spiral over everything, even when it didn't fit, and it never made any visual sense to me. Now I know why... long story short, idiot conspiracy theories who know nothing about maths have been misleading me to the nature of logarithmic spirals.

    • @MarvinFalz
      @MarvinFalz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The golden ratio also appears in photography, which I wouldn't call idiotic nor conspiratory, but maybe in need of aditional information. But I would call New Age idiotic, since some New Agers use the fibonacci sequence as well as elements of quantum physics as proofs for their New Age teachings.

    • @mwu365
      @mwu365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      your short story was as long as your long story

    • @Homs86
      @Homs86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      same here. woodworking school is kinda obsessed with the golden ratio bcs"so pleasing" blabla finally there is light :)

    • @bruhmoment1835
      @bruhmoment1835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, it IS a JoJo reference

  • @jerombastiaansen9495
    @jerombastiaansen9495 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    7:20
    That's the solution to x² - Nx - 1

    • @ultra6334
      @ultra6334 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, makes so much sense, as phi's value is x^2 - x - 1, you just multiply that degree 1 x with some number to get these ratios

  • @acerovalderas
    @acerovalderas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent extension of the Golden Ratio. I love it!

  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Limited edition "Golden Ratio" T-Shirts at Fibonacci prices:
    teespring.com/NP-Seeds and teespring.com/NP-Golden-Rectangle

  • @torin1006
    @torin1006 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love things that use root(2) anywhere in them.

    • @void9720
      @void9720 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      1.41421356237309504880168872420969807856967...

  • @benjaminolanderrasmussen3049
    @benjaminolanderrasmussen3049 6 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    What would the ratio for the phi-bonacci sequence be called?

    • @ericluque6573
      @ericluque6573 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      i was thinking the exact same thing

    • @benjaminolanderrasmussen3049
      @benjaminolanderrasmussen3049 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Eric Luque. When you remember the numberphile videos that you have recently watched :)

    • @heyandy889
      @heyandy889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      the very golden ratio

    • @primarysecondaryxd
      @primarysecondaryxd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The golden-golden ratio. Plug it in to (N+sqrt(N^2+4))/2 - > The golden golden golden ratio, plug it in to (N+sqrt(N^2+4))/2 -> The golden golden golden golden ratio.
      Etc.

    • @BubbaJ18
      @BubbaJ18 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or π-bonacci?

  • @popogast
    @popogast 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm always enlightened by the enthusiasm You mathematicians on this channel have. ITs a delight. Thank You.

  • @captainroll
    @captainroll 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love his enthusiasm for everything!

  • @thatsleepytitan769
    @thatsleepytitan769 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    A ratio for every element

    • @Henrix1998
      @Henrix1998 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Golden ratio should be hydrogen ratio then

    • @Smittel
      @Smittel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      S U L P H U R S P I R A L

    • @briandiehl9257
      @briandiehl9257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes

    • @kuro13wolf
      @kuro13wolf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Except bronze, which is an alloy. It's quite upsetting when you think about it.

    • @Smittel
      @Smittel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rhyme Bito copper turns green tho. You don't want a green medal do ya?

  • @cbbuntz
    @cbbuntz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I noticed some similar properties to the silver ratio to the golden ratio a while back.
    1 / (2^0.5 + 1) = 2^0 .5 - 1
    1 / ( 2^0.5 - 1) = 2^0.5 + 1
    and a few others.

    • @3c3k
      @3c3k 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is not related to the ratios

    • @cbbuntz
      @cbbuntz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@3c3k Actually it is. It's related to pell number generation

    • @3c3k
      @3c3k 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cbbuntz Have you not learned surds in school?

  •  5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love using golden section in music. I learned so much about this studying Bela Bartok scores back in the 70s and 80s.

  • @prathameshsundaram7509
    @prathameshsundaram7509 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your channel! It's absolutely amazing!

  • @MasterHigure
    @MasterHigure 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    They're not really logarithmic spirals, though, are they? A true logarithmic spiral isn't piecewice circles.

    • @Tumbolisu
      @Tumbolisu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The formula is correct, but the whole "circles inside squares" thing is just an approximation.

    • @stevethecatcouch6532
      @stevethecatcouch6532 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The spiral he drew was the golden rectangle spiral, not the golden spiral. Another spiral that approximates both of them is the Fibonacci spiral, in which successive Fibonacci rectangles are used in place of the golden rectangle.

    • @chrisg3030
      @chrisg3030 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dr Gerbils But isn't each of those successive Fibonacci rectangles, created each time a square is added, itself a golden rectangle, that is one whose aspect ratio is golden?

    • @stevethecatcouch6532
      @stevethecatcouch6532 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chris G, No, the aspect ratio of a Fibonacci rectangle is only approximately the golden ratio. For example, 13/8 = 1.625, not 1.618 ...

    • @chrisg3030
      @chrisg3030 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dr Gerbils I think I get it. "A golden rectangle with longer side a and shorter side b, when placed adjacent to a square with sides of length a, will produce a similar golden rectangle with longer side a + b and shorter side a. This illustrates the relationship (a+b)/a = a/b = Phi" (Wikipedia). Rectangles with Fibonacci number sides only approximate to this relationship. But if true golden rectangles were successively formed in this structure instead, what kind of spiral would result?

  • @AnthonyYandow
    @AnthonyYandow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I really enjoyed watching Brady with the camera in the window reflection! Neat little "behind the scenes included"

  • @iAmTheSquidThing
    @iAmTheSquidThing 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pete's animations often elevate Numberphile videos into something beautiful as well as informative.

  • @zanti4132
    @zanti4132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interestingly, the odd entries in the sequence for the Silver Ratio are the large numbers (i.e. the diagonals of the right triangles) for all the Pythagorean Triples where the two smaller numbers (the legs of the triangles) differ by one:
    0^2 + 1^2 = 1^2
    3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2
    20^2 + 21^2 = 29^2
    119^2 + 120^2 = 169^2
    696^2 + 697^2 = 985^2
    etc.
    Furthermore, you can generate all these Pythagorean Triples by selection the two consecutive entries in the Silver Ratio and applying that m^2 - n^2 / 2mn / m^2 + n^2 formula to generate Pythagorean Triples:
    m = 2, n = 1: Generates 3-4-5
    m = 5, n = 2: Generates 20-21-29
    m = 12, n = 5: Generates 119-120-169
    m = 29, n = 12: Generates 696-697-985
    etc.

  • @rider2fois
    @rider2fois 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    An interesting thing about logarithmic spirals is that you can use them to define the analytic extansion of the zeta function.

  • @dkamm65
    @dkamm65 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Could you not use this Pell Sequence to find very large primes? Since the numbers in the sequence grow exponentially faster than the position, couldn't you calculate the number in the (very large prime)th position to find a gargantuan prime?

    • @user-ct1ns6zw4z
      @user-ct1ns6zw4z 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The 7th pell number is 169, which is 13^2. All pell primes have prime indexes, but not all prime indexes correspond to pell primes. You might call them "pell pseudoprimes".

    • @nowonmetube
      @nowonmetube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought the same thing, and another person besides you in the comments section as well. If there isn't a sequence that could find prime numbers. But if there is, we surely still haven't found it yet.

  • @LMacNeill
    @LMacNeill 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's just so fascinating how mathematics show up literally *everywhere* you look! Of course I've seen these spirals everywhere, but I've just never though about how you could describe them using mathematics. Fascinating!

  • @Ruxinator
    @Ruxinator 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! I particularly enjoyed this one

  • @ThePrimevalVoid
    @ThePrimevalVoid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Man, the animations are getting trippier by the video.

  • @garrettkrawczyk9414
    @garrettkrawczyk9414 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What about a super metallic ratio where the ratio is between the golden ratio & silver ratio, silver ratio & bronze ratio, etc.

    • @chrisg3030
      @chrisg3030 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Using the formula (n + sqrt(4 + n^2))/2, so that when n=1 we get the golden ratio, and when n=2 we get the silver, then when n=1.5 we get the ratio exactly 2. Now if we construct a regular figure with the number of sides equal to the number under the radical, then it would be interesting to look at a figure with 6.25 sides to compare diagonal lengths on and see if any of them are in an exact 2:1 ratio, just as you get a silver ratio for a similar operation in an octagon. How would you interpret that? I tried a hexagon with a side produced by a quarter beyond the join with the next.

    • @RaunienTheFirst
      @RaunienTheFirst 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chrisg3030 when I did the calculation for what I'm calling the half-bonacci, i.e. where N=0.5, I get the ratio to be (1+sqrt17)/4
      Not sure where you got 2 from

    • @chrisg3030
      @chrisg3030 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      RaunienThe First I got the denominator 2 from the formula at 7:21. I plugged in 1.5 in place of N since this value is half way between 1 (plugging in which gives you the Golden ratio) and 2 (plugging in which gives the silver ratio), and seemed to be what Garret Krawczyk was asking for, rather than the half-bonacci of 0.5. So with mine we get (1.5 + sqrt(4 + 1.5^2))/2 which gives a sequence ratio constant of exactly 2. Moreover for the Golden ratio the number under the radical in the formula is 5, for the silver it's 8, but for this intermediate case it's 6.25, so I was (not quite seriously) imagining a figure with 6.25 sides. Your figure would have 17 sides which sounds interesting..

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      so an 18-Karat ratio ...

  • @Difulsif
    @Difulsif 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The animations are getting better in each new video :D

  • @amydebuitleir
    @amydebuitleir 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The animation on this video is really satisfying!

  • @kinshukdua
    @kinshukdua 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    OMG I just learned about the Silver ratio in Persona 5 and Numberphile uploaded a video about it, am I on something lol?

  • @philosofickle
    @philosofickle 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Damn the ending was hilarious 😂😂

  • @georgecooper7389
    @georgecooper7389 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Extremely well edited!

  • @angry4rtichoke646
    @angry4rtichoke646 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This person is awesome! I need to find more videos of them!

  • @quantumhorizon
    @quantumhorizon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Interesting video! I'm curious though, have imaginary analogues to the metallic ratios been explored?

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ooo, interesting. Could you iterate a sequence of imaginary numbers?

  • @sebastianzaczek
    @sebastianzaczek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Hey Numberphile! I recently was playing around with numbers and i came up with a rediculous fractal-like fraction (here is the first bit of it):
    ((((1/2)/(3/4))/((5/6)/(7/8)))/(((9/10)/(11/12))/((13/14)/(15/16))))
    I hope you understand how it's built up.
    Then i wanted to see what this equals, and the larger i made the fraction, the closer it got to sqrt(2)/2:
    (1/2)=0.5
    ((1/2)/(3/4))=0.666...
    (((1/2)/(3/4))/((5/6)/(7/8)))=0.7
    ((((1/2)/(3/4)... (13/14)/(15/16)))) =0.7061728395...
    (((((1/2)/(3/4)... (29/30)/(31/32)))))=0.707023939...
    ((((((1/2)/(3/4)... (61/62)/(63/64))))))=0.7071021245...
    (I had to trick my calculator in a certain way to let me calculate this last equation, so the result might be slightly off)
    sqrt(2)/2 equals 0.7071067812... so the last result is equal for the first 5 digits after the decimal point. Now my question: If you continue this process infinitely, does the fraction actually converge towards sqrt(2)/2? And is there a way to prove it?

    • @unclejoeoakland
      @unclejoeoakland 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      DerSibbe i think they call that a convergence...

    • @mannyheffley9551
      @mannyheffley9551 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but a fraction cannot be irrational so I think this assertion is incorrect

    • @sebastianzaczek
      @sebastianzaczek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FReaKIng FReqUEncIEs i was thinking that too, on the other end however this fraction is theoretically infinite....

    • @mannyheffley9551
      @mannyheffley9551 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      so then it is possibly irrational

    • @sebastianzaczek
      @sebastianzaczek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FReaKIng FReqUEncIEs exactly... and there we start to need a proof... no idea how to proove/disproove it though...

  • @user-pq7dy9op6y
    @user-pq7dy9op6y 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful fractal geometry!!!

  • @zyrota4295
    @zyrota4295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love watching this channel because it makes you feel as if you stopped by the maths nerd's office and they just started to explain to you this cool math thing.

  • @mioszchrzempiec4429
    @mioszchrzempiec4429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    9:10 I never thought that watching a numberphile episode would be useful in persona 5

  • @caiheang
    @caiheang 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Does the Metallic Ratio Spirals have arc-length limits, or are they "infinitely long"? :O Like 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... tends to 1 after infinite iterations. Does someone know the answer?

    • @mxpxorsist
      @mxpxorsist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The arc length of a quarter circle is pi/4*r where r is the radius. Therefore the arclength of a spiral with ratio 1/delta is (starting with r=1) pi/4*(1+1/delta+1/delta^2+...)=pi/4*delta/(delta-1)

    • @badrunnaimal-faraby309
      @badrunnaimal-faraby309 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      As you go inwards, the arc length converges just as the integral of θe^θ from negative infinity to zero converges.

    • @littlebigphil
      @littlebigphil 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The arc length of a section decreases by a constant factor (1 over the ratio), so the geometric series describes the total length. Geometric series converges when the factor is less than 1, which it is because the sections are getting smaller.

  • @stevefrandsen
    @stevefrandsen 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informational Tony. Thank you.

  • @WillToWinvlog
    @WillToWinvlog 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is PURE GOLD!!!

  • @properbeatz
    @properbeatz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Im 27 years old and I just found out what the metal part of a ruler was for... Thanks Numberphile!

    • @nowonmetube
      @nowonmetube 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did you not think about that yourself

  • @saidatulhusna1533
    @saidatulhusna1533 6 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    i haven't watched the video yet but i assume this is about some sort of a parker ratio

    • @jogiff
      @jogiff 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I legit thought it would be about electrum or the gold standard

    • @CaseyShontz
      @CaseyShontz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saidatul Husna not really lol but that’s what I thought

    • @steph_dreams
      @steph_dreams 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like the Parker ratio but I prefer Parker squares

  • @ricardovalentin5056
    @ricardovalentin5056 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic! I love Numberphile!

  • @SirDominic
    @SirDominic 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    :O those t-shirts look amazing!

  • @kujmous
    @kujmous 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What is the ratio for 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 9, 17, 31,… always adding the previous three values to get the next?

    • @user-ct1ns6zw4z
      @user-ct1ns6zw4z 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Kinda ugly ratio:
      1/3(1+ cuberoot(19 - 3sqrt(33)) + cuberoot(19 + 3sqrt(33)))
      Which is about 1.84. Seems to converge pretty fast, 17*1.84 = 31.28
      It's the root to this equation:
      r^3 - r^2 - r - 1 = 0
      Because if we write it out in its recursive form:
      P_n = P_(n-1) + P_(n-2) + P_(n-3)
      Then divide to get the ratio:
      r = (P_n)/(P_(n-1)) = 1 + (P_(n-2))/(P_(n-1)) + (P_(n-3))/(P_(n-1))
      We notice that as n->infinity, this equation tends to:
      r = 1 + 1/r + 1/r^2
      Then we simply multiply by r^2 and bring everything to the other side.

    • @IBioPoxI
      @IBioPoxI 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      wouldn't it be 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24 .... as ϵ+1+1 = 2 not 1 as you seem to suggest?

    • @chrisroller1397
      @chrisroller1397 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben Fowler To me this is syraight out of /r/vxjunkies

    • @kennethflorek8532
      @kennethflorek8532 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben Fowler
      That series is the one that begins as 0, 1, 1, instead of the one that begins 1, 1, 1. If you need a number before 1, 1, 1, it is -1. That is: 1 = 1 + 1 + (-1)

    • @AnonimityAssured
      @AnonimityAssured 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      A slightly more succinct representation is:
      _t_ = (1 + cbr(19 - √297) + cbr(19 + √297))/3. (cbr = cube root)

  • @someweeb3650
    @someweeb3650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "We can easily work out how much you've cut off"
    You didn't have to explain anything for me to know the answer- too much.

  • @hadhave7961
    @hadhave7961 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This leaves me with so many more questions than answers

  • @venkatbabu186
    @venkatbabu186 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    A square is a surface and the ratios factors are like golden ratio and silver ratio along circular symmetry. Any Fibonacci type is a ratio along circular symmetry line. Half circle. Even geometrical shape like cylinder has a symmetry ratios. Others are cone sphere parabolic cylinder etc.

  • @skyscraperfan
    @skyscraperfan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wouldn't it make more sense to define spirals somehow more continuosly, so that they are even self similar, if you rotate them any degree? They way you constructed them was just joining quarter circles together. In a real spiral there should not be parts of a circle anywhere. It should get smaller and smaller at any point.

    • @xenontesla122
      @xenontesla122 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      warumbraucheichfüryoutubekommentareeinescheissgooglepluspagefragezeichen That type of portal is called a logarithmic spiral and it’s the type found in flight patterns and shell growth.

  • @deanwinchest3906
    @deanwinchest3906 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Don't forget to phile those nails when your finnished;;

    • @briandiehl9257
      @briandiehl9257 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would he need to do that?

    • @deanwinchest3906
      @deanwinchest3906 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brian Diehl thought it was mildly ironic to title/intro... Maybe a bit over the head✈️🐒

    • @briandiehl9257
      @briandiehl9257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was thinking he could just turn the scissors when he is cutting and avoid all of this

    • @deanwinchest3906
      @deanwinchest3906 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brian Diehl I prefer the old throw away dollar store *fingernail clippers* myself😄

  • @davidcampos1463
    @davidcampos1463 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. I didn't know about these other ratios.

  • @markusjacobi-piepenbrink9795
    @markusjacobi-piepenbrink9795 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just wonderful!

  • @st0ox
    @st0ox 6 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Big in Japan lol

  • @alphadad1966
    @alphadad1966 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So European paper uses irrational values for its dimensions? A true A4 sheet of paper can never be accurately measured?

    • @silkwesir1444
      @silkwesir1444 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The A4 standard is defined in terms of whole millimeters (210 × 297), and it has a tolerance of ±2 mm.

    • @MsSlash89
      @MsSlash89 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      At least our sheets are, more or less, capable of keeping the same ratio when folded. Yours, once folded, just become another rectangle, not making any sense with all those "letter, legal..." comparing it to A2, A3, A4, A5...

    • @OrcinusDrake
      @OrcinusDrake 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A sheet with integer dimensions can never be exactly measured either

    • @alphadad1966
      @alphadad1966 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I should have said " A true A4 sheet of does not have dimensions that can be expressed in rational numbers"

    • @blackhatguy6955
      @blackhatguy6955 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, the definition includes, "rounded to the nearest millimetre".

  • @swoondrones
    @swoondrones 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video!

  • @vincentvanveen4436
    @vincentvanveen4436 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm so glad I clicked on this! Always had my doubts on nature sticking to one single ratio, seemed to simple.

  • @joshpollack5936
    @joshpollack5936 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    math is fun, adventurous, quirky, and clever. too bad it is delivered to us with the wonder completely striped

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like my wonder completely plaid.

  • @Funkotronimus
    @Funkotronimus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    I’m gonna start a support group for Americans who pronounce “H” as “Haych,” and “Z” as “zed”

    • @RiamiAurum
      @RiamiAurum 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bob Trenwith that's the point, he's supporting those Americans tbat pronounce it that way

    • @izicial7469
      @izicial7469 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I thought these guys were based in the UK. So wouldn't it make sense for them to say hache and zed???

    • @ratlinggull2223
      @ratlinggull2223 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      As a foreigner, pronouncing h as 'eich' instead of 'heich' actually saves breath since your tongue isn't optimised for English. But Americans have no reason to because they're hecking native.

    • @UnderscoreZeroLP
      @UnderscoreZeroLP 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Saying haytch isn't british

    • @PhilBoswell
      @PhilBoswell 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Underscore Zero it is when you want to read something over the phone and you don't want the recipient to think you're saying "eight".
      Yes, I know you can use the Phonetic Alphabet (which I learned almost before I could read ;-) but people are lazy :-P

  • @DavidvanDeijk
    @DavidvanDeijk 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This silver ratio really links back to the continued fraction of squareroot of 2 from the suggested video at the end, the irrationality of the golden ratio. suggest everybody watch that.
    Nice lemma about the primeness of pell numbers, i'd like to hear more on that.

  • @JimSteinbrecher
    @JimSteinbrecher 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    a4 (and a-size paper in general) is used in all metric countries. its a sqrt(2) ratio starting with an area of 1 square meter (a0), and diving by 2 with each index increase (a1 is half a square meter, a2 is 1/4 of a square meter, etc).

  • @mojoface
    @mojoface 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love reducing cognitive load. Probably my favorite thing actually.

  • @BiggieCheese
    @BiggieCheese 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Where my Platinum Ratio bois at?

    • @ianmoore5502
      @ianmoore5502 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Platinum ratio gang rise up

    • @user-mz7cn9hq8v
      @user-mz7cn9hq8v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bruh platinum ratio is technically 1

    • @yee6870
      @yee6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-mz7cn9hq8v iconic

  • @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
    @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So the Pell sequence features 13^2=169, which is interesting as the Fibonacci sequence features 12^2=144.

  • @Elliottmatt
    @Elliottmatt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Numberphile, Great Video! Two questions: What do less-than-1-bonacci series/circle look like? Is there anything special about a golden-ratio-bonacci series/circle?

  • @zero56619
    @zero56619 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Show me rubidium ratio

    • @user-ct1ns6zw4z
      @user-ct1ns6zw4z 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      If gold is the 79th element and that gives you Sn = Sn-1 + Sn-1, and silver is the 47th element and that gives you Sn = Sn-1 + 2Sn-2, then for Rb = 37th element you could define it to be Sn = Sn-1 + 42/32Sn-2. The ratio for that one would be (42/32 + sqrt((42/32)^2 + 4))/2 = 1.8523537....
      What am I doing with my life...

  • @blue_tetris
    @blue_tetris 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I never made it to the Silver Ratio without biting.

    • @TofranBohk
      @TofranBohk 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr. blue_tetris, how many spirals does it take to get to the SILVER ratio of a SILVER RATIO POP!?

  • @felixcroc
    @felixcroc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would squaring a number and adding the previous one in the sequence tend to anything?
    e.g. 0 1 (square 1, add 0) -> 1, square 1 add 1 -> 2, square 2 add 1 -> 5, square 5 add 2 -> 27...

  • @JasmineDreams
    @JasmineDreams 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why am I so excited about this!

  • @KnuxMaster368
    @KnuxMaster368 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10th!
    hopefully it's not a Parker Square of a meme
    Edit: *sniff* I smell a Parker Square

  • @ishaangovil5572
    @ishaangovil5572 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The next is the bronze ratio...I think

    • @sebastianzaczek
      @sebastianzaczek 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      MODERN SCIENCE i thought that too

    • @hunnymonster2k
      @hunnymonster2k 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah, the Parker Ratio ;-)

    • @naverilllang
      @naverilllang 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why should bronze, an alloy, come after two precious metals? Just saying. Platinum should have come next, ya know?

  • @johnsnow5305
    @johnsnow5305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've always loved geometry. It was my best math subject in school. When they started to introduce algebra and calculus and abstract trig (ie not showing how it actually plays out in physical space), it became less fun. I think it's important to combine the abstract facts we gain from geometry in an interesting way like you guys often do.

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      pretty much every great mathematician pre 1900 would agree with you I think.

  • @p23570
    @p23570 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i learn so many new words watching these videos. hache, maths, etc...

  • @hanspeter9391
    @hanspeter9391 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Got me anxiety how he placed those scissors

  • @westsenkovec
    @westsenkovec 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The silver ratio = *1:925*

  • @fabianr253
    @fabianr253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    16:10 How I hypnose myself to stay consistent at learning

  • @IncolasCopperfield
    @IncolasCopperfield 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for a platinum video