When I was a young boy, I lived through hurricane Andrew (F5) in Homestead Fla (US) and it was scary as -uck. After it had passed, I found reeds of seagrass completely through & embedded into telephone poles. We had a really big mall made from cement and red brick and a huge blacktop parking lot, it was all gone. It was just erased from the face of the earth. There was just a dirt field with some random weeds sticking out of the ground. My neighbors' house was completely gone but the front stairs were still there with the welcome matt and the daily newspaper untouched. My friends older brother (who was going to start college) just got a brand new mustang, it still had the blue dye on the white writing on the sidewalls of the tires, two days old and they never found his car, the hurricane must have thrown it somewhere. It looked like we lived in the rubble of a war zone. It was scary, I remember seeing grown-ups fight each other for water. Male or female you don't want to experience a hurricane.
The pyramids weren't built by Cleopatra's ancestors. Cleopatra was of Greek descent, from the Ptolemeian dynasty, the descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals.
Correct. Slaves of any specific race/type didn’t build the pyramids, though undoubtedly they were involved. The pyramids were built by freemen in the off season, while the fields were growing, then went home for the harvest. They lived in little towns built for the purpose, and were fed and paid. The pyramids were there long before Cleopatra’s ancestors were, and she was of Macedonian/Greek descent.
@@mangot589 yep it was like a public service. Ancient Egyptians were expected to give their labor to the government in the same way that modern people are expected to pay taxes.
When I went through the yearly refresher my job requires, we were told that one of the two associations to teach and create the certifications now suggest 120 beats per minute. That and one of the two (I forget which one) now recommend not giving breaths during CPR. Something about the breaths not significantly increasing the survival rate while carrying a decent risk of contracting diseases while giving mouth to mouth.
isnt it obvious why 1 shows up more... its where you start, you aren't always going to make it to 9 but you usually start at 1. same reason you are "more likely to get into an accident within a few blocks of your house.... its not more dangerous there you are just there more often its where you both start and finish both trips.
The thing is, nobody cares unless they are from Louisiana. Yes technically they are parishes, but if you say "counties in Louisiana", we know what you mean. We also know that "50 states" includes 46 states and 4 commonwealths but most people understand and don't fuss over the distinction. "Countries" was funny though! (I know, 3 years late but hey it's the internet ;-p ) And apparently in Alaska they are called "boroughs" because why not!
Hey if ya happen to find it b4 I do.send me a link.or I'll send u one.nif I find 1st.ill um...help with some research.Gota be some kinda research,right?lmao
Some of us at work were trained in CPR and I found it amusing when they taught us to sing “Stayin Alive” to keep cadence. But I downright laughed out loud when they said that we could also sing “Another One Bites the Dust” because it had the same cadence.
“Nobody knows” why Benford’s law works. Wrong. It’s valid when you have data that scales over several magnitudes. Numberphile have done a series on this.
It's actually pretty easy to explain, as they do on Numberphile- if you have just 10 tickets, only 10% of them start with a 1. But if you have 11, 12, 13... etc... the number of tickets that start with 1 starts to go up. Once you reach 20 it goes down again, but once you reach 100, it starts going up, for another 100 numbers. The other numbers do this as well, but because 1 comes first in the pattern, it has a statistical advantage.
11:04 Wouldnt it have been more pertinent to say that Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the first Little Caesar's than the building of the pyramids? Especially if you think about the fact that she gave birth to a little caesar
William Henry Might not of actually happened. Apparently the Yugoslavian airliner strayed off course, and was shot down by trigger happy Czechoslovakian air force pilots in a case of mistaken identification. Naturally this was embarrassing for the Communist governments of both countries, and they were saved by the survival of a single stewardess from the aircraft in question. So they invented a story about her surviving a descent of 33,000 ft/10,000 meters to turn it into a happy story; in reality the aircraft had descended to a few hundred feet at most. The stewardess had no memory of the incident, which made the authorities job of covering up easiet.
The staying alive thing is... half true. There's a certain range of effective frequency for chest compressions, and Staying Alive's bpm is at the very lower end of that range. Ideally, you need to go a tad faster at 110 bpm, as the effective range is 100-120. I was taught this on a first aid course from St. John's ambulance in the UK. They were warning us of this factoid.
1 being the most common first number is quiet easily apparent to our numbering system. the leading number 9 on 999 was only expressed for 10% of the numbers lower than 1000, but 1 leads all numbers until 2000. The logic is so simple I can hardly imagine anyone else could have made the error stated here, that no one knows!
jsbrads1 - Are you forgetting that numbers go above 2,000? Every number from 9,000 to 9,999 starts with a 9, which means an equal number of numbers between 1,000 and 9,999 begin with 1 as begin with 9. Just as an equal number of numbers from 1 to 999 start with 1 as start with 9.
@js No math guy here but that sounds sorta right. if it was base 16 with 0-f we still must always start at 0 when counting? Nothing there 0 something there 1. Now I think the trick to that is we then count the measurement up as well. cm, m, km even to 1 AU as 149,597,871km. I'm to dumb to know or prove it but that's just my thoughts on the matter.
To put it another way octal base 8 but really that's us again. Binary true or false 1 or 0. is something there? yes 1 but how much and a string of 101010101010101 for the exact number but we can chop it down with a made up measuring system like AU, miles or km and say 10101AU. My binary is an example and not calculated to be correct in this explanation. Just as AU is an orbit that fluctuates and they picked a useful number. Could be 90-100 million miles or 150-160 million km and still be useful if we could travel space efficiently.
@@jayeisenhardt1337, if it were base 16, 1 would occur 25% of the time, rather than the 6.67% you might expect. Octal would be 1/3 rather than 1/7. There's a version of Benford's law for every non-binary base. (Well I suppose there's Benford's law for binary, too, but it'd state that "All binary numbers above 1.0 start with a '1'," hardly a revelation.)
Zarli Win He doesn't mean Cleopatra as a single figure, per say, but is using her as an example of a line of pharaohs. He could have said, "By the time Cleopatra was ruling Egypt...". but he probably didn't expect it to be an issue.
There are many articles and videos explaining how Benford's law works, and it's quite intuitive when you think about it, especially for higher numbers and things with exponential growth, that is, numbers that grow faster the higher they become. Imagine you're starting a business and you have 10 employees. It will likely take longer to expand from 10 employees to 20 than from 20 to 30 because from 10 to 20 is a growth of 100%, and a growth of 20 to 30 is a growth of just 50%. Each time 10 more employees are added, it's a proportionally smaller increase to your business and would take less time. Then when the business had 100 employees, the first digit will be 1 until it has 200, and the same logic will follow.
I was in elementary school when hurricane Katrina happened. There was a poor girl named Katrina in my class and she was always picked last in PE. No one wanted her on their team.
Much more interesting than anything on the list. Quite interesting too that if you fit them in there (using the average distance) it gets really tight.
my first aid instructor said you can also use another one bites the dust. Can you imagine that? giving chest compressions to someone keeping pace to that song while the person's family is watching in horror behind you
I'll give you a MIND BLOWING fact that sounds like BS but is true and also related to this video. Swedish Sauna is a well used expression in English but fact is we don't have any saunas, there are some in a few bath houses but almost no one has one at home. Probably much less saunas per capita than US or England, look it up. Bonus facts. The Swedish Chef in the Muppet show, his "language" sounds much more like Norwegian than Swedish.
Another great video, but I'd like to clarify Benford's Law a bit. First, it does not apply to truly random numbers, it generally applies to things we count. The roll of a die does not follow Benford nor does something in sequence, such as invoice or check numbers. Second, the reason Benford's works can be shown with a thought experiment. I'll start counting and you tell me when to stop... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.... If you tell me to stop during the first 20 numbers, half will start with 1, two will start with 2, and the rest of the digits appear only once. If you stop me at 200, then 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 17, 18, 19, and all of the 100 series will start with 1, so again, more than half the numbers will start with the digit 1. If you randomly stop me at any given point, say at 1,320, the most represented first digit is 1. If you stop me at 999, each digit is more fairly represented, but when it rolls over to 1,000, the digit 1 is again overrepresented. Unless you stop me close to the change of a decimal place, lower digits will always be over-represented.
I like the style. Although it's cool learning multiple packs about one thing, it's always fun once in a while learning 10 things. Maybe you could make this a once a week thing or something. That would be cool.
TopTenz I love these!! I collect books of lists, one of my favorites being the 1975 The Peoples Almanac. Please keep these going. I'm on the edge of my chair!
In our CPR refresher class taught by a firefighter, he also suggested Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" to get the same rhythmic beat. (got a few predictable laughs)
have to have to include Alan Eugene Magee! American B-17 Airman that survived a 22,000 foot fall. in fact, holds the record. some German soldiers happened to witness a portion of the fall and thought they were coming upon a dead body only to realize, he was still alive. they gave him medical care but still threw him in a POW camp. however, many of the German soldiers gave him excellent treatment, as they said "obviously, God wanted him alive." great video as always Mr. Whistler and co.!
Afaik the Ptolemaic Pharaoh Cleopatra wasn't related at all to the builders of the pyramids. Aside from that, she was of the line of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, and was named after Alexander's sister, Cleopatra of Macedon. This last fact caused some consternation between my friends and I this past week, which is why I remember it.
There is a Queen song that also has the right beats per minute for chest compressions. But most people shy away from “Another One Bites the Dust,” in those situations, though...
I actually was SHOCKED by the F1 so I did research and it is completely BS at least to the point that they make it seem in this video... it isn't NEARLY like "catwalk models" to compare it to that is an insult to every person who has developed eating disorders because of the modeling industry/beauty mags/beauty industry... If you LOOK up the F1 guys BMI's they are actually HEALTHY!!! going back all the way to 2013 at least! But still, they are putting a MINIMUM weight for seat/driver of 80KGs for 2019, and one guy said that he finally "gained some weight" despite being a COMPLETELY NORMAL 130 at 5'5".......... just wow..... it is insulting and misinformed.... jockeys and models really are suffering not overpaid racers. Sure their jobs are dangerous, hence they're making bank, and yeah their weights might be monitored, but they're allowed to be a healthy weight.
err why doesn't f1 just standardize the weight of the driver at something a little more than what all the drivers weigh and use ballast? would certainly solve that idiocy.
They do precisely that. More ballast and less driver is advantageous, though, because you can stuff the lead into the deepest, lowest recesses of the car, lowering the center of mass.
Because the teams would simply make the parts lowest heavier in response. The same technical rules apply in every other big name racing series, too, there just isn't a fraction of the money at stake in any of them. F1 dwarfs NASCAR and IndyCar combined in commercial investment. The engineers obsess over driver weight but in the end it doesn't matter that much or else Danica Patrick (100 lbs)would have 52 wins in NASCAR & Indy while her former teammate, Tony Stewart (180 lbs) would only have 1 win, instead of the other way around.
If a team's two drivers have markedly different weights, the seats won't be the same weight. Seats, in fact are not common at all. Each seat pan and back is molded specifically to each driver. I'm not just talking about the padding but rather the entire seat assembly itself. As far as the other teams, the number of non-engine parts in common between cars is virtually zero. Wheels, brakes, and fasteners may be common commodity items, but even within those assemblies, parts vary. The teams fabricate even the center wheel nuts themselves. Brake cooling ducts, all suspension components, and every shard of carbon fiber bodywork is specific to each team and some of those can vary from race to race and not in sync between the team's two cars.F1 doesn't work like NASCAR or Indy. The teams build their own clean sheet designs from the ground up, in accordance with the technical rules agreed upon by the teams and the FIA. There are no body templates like NASCAR or a single chassis supplier serving up cookie cutter cars to all the teams, like Indy. Every F1 team builds its own car. This has been central to F1 since the beginning.
We understand Benford's law well, and 9 showing up obviously does not have an infinitessimal chance. You even showed the distribution? How many of the numbers 1-199 start with 1? Of 1-500? Of 1-999? And lastly, 1-1999? Track the distribution as the size increases and you'll see it goes up and down between 100% and 11%. 9 goes up and down between 11% and 0%. The average is the rate of the leading digit being n of a number of unknown size.
Yes, "no one knows" is a cop-out way of saying, "I didn't understand the Wikipedia entry and I was too embarrassed to ask a mathematician." This is about as dumb as Nelson Muntz saying, "That's like asking the square root of a million. No one will ever know."
Cleopatra was not Egyptian, she was a descendant of the Macedonian general Ptolemy who claimed the area after Alexander the Great's death. Cleopatra was famous for being the first in her line to even speak Egyptian, she was of course also the last. If TopTenz are so blasé with details, I wonder if there are other errors
Not sure about the timing here? I thought that she dated Alexander? and had a treaty with him. If she did how did she come to power when her power came after Alexanders death? I am not a historian.
Batting averages starting with 1 is a bad example. Unless they're a pitcher, having a batting average of .100 something is very bad. Most batting averages of decent players will be .200 something, with the great ones being .300 something.
Highest fall that somebody survived: 10,160 Meters from a bombed jet liner, Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant, was ejected from the aircraft as it broke apart. Jan 26, 1972.
Cleopatra was not related to the pyramid builders. She was Macedonian Greek. Her fore bearers were part of Alexander the Great's army that conquered Egypt in 332 BC. After that the royal family of the Egyptians were the descendants of those installed by Alexander. Also, he founded the city of Alexandra, Egypt.
4:35 #7 The ideal sand or aggregate for use in cement/concrete should be coarse and highly abrasive so the mortar has a lot of surface area to latch onto as it cures.
Late in WWII, my father was in the military hospital at what is now Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and shared a room with a soldier who had been struck by clear-air lightning while on guard patrol. The guard was fine while awake, but the lightning had made tiny holes in his scalp and the soles of his feet which oozed blood when he slept and the muscles in these areas relaxed. Don't mess with Mother Nature!
Just a heads up about Benford's Law. You said that you can use it for baseball batting averages, but because of the way that batting averages work, 2 and 3 would be the most likely premier number. I'm not saying this model or what you picked is wrong, it just may not be the right case.
In another century one of the facts on a list like this will be "can you believe that as late as 2017 the British were known for drinking warm beer and having a Queen?" "Really?" "Yea, rilly."
#2, it also depends on the numberbase used. for example, in binary (and perhaps unary) every number other than 0 starts with a 1. And because 1 exists in more numberbases than 2 it also has more chances to start a number than 2, and because 2 exists in more numberbases than 3 it has more chances to start a number than 3... ad infinitum
Lightning scars are not caused by "static electricity", which implies that the charges aren't moving. The discharge MOVED through the victim and towards the Earth (ground).
Another song used for CPR rhythm is "Another one Bites the Dust". I call it insensitive - how would you feel if your relative was dying & you could mind-read? You're either hearing "Staying Alive" or "Another One Bites the Dust". How stuffed up is that?
Simon, there is a lot of evidence, from Egyptologists, but also geologists and other fields that all agree the pyramids are quite a bit older than the 2500 BC time that has been the established 'dates' for the pyramids. Pls look into it, it might be a nice 'today I found out' I love your show!
Tfw when you wanted to jump off the Empire State Building because you are depressed, only to be caught by the guards resulting in fines and jail time, making you even more depressed
F-Zero (by the same people as F-1) currently requires teams to have two cars. About halfway through the race drivers get out of the first car and into the second. To encourage fitness (lower weights), the F-Zero rules originally would have required drivers to jump a barrier, run 100 yards on foot, then jump another barrier. By the first race however, they decided it was best to park the first car about 2 feet from and facing opposite from the second. Drivers must still unbelt, remove the steering wheel, jump out, step to the other car, jump in, belt up, and install a steering wheel as fast as possible. So fitness is still an issue.
Formula E? Formula Zero was a short-lived hydrogen car race series, with no F1 affiliation, in the late 2000’s The Formula E car swap went away after the 2017-8 season.
The Empire State Building was the first building built that was high enough that if you jumped off you would reach terminal velocity before hitting the ground.
Two things - a. soccer did not start a war: the Honduran - El Salvadoran conflict was a parallel event to the World Cup qualifying game, which was then mythologized as the impetus to the brief war. b. it's actually not too difficult to understand why the number 1 is the most common first digit in a random number, it has to do with scaling: regardless of the number of digits in a number as you increase the number value of the quantity to be measured the progression is such that when you arrive at a number that starts with a 1 (say 1000), you will need to DOUBLE the number of the measured quantity units order to reach the new leading digit (2000), an increase of 100 %, whereas to increase the value from 2000 to 3000 only requires an increase of 50 %, from 3000 to 4000, an increase of 33 %, etc. Taking all those increase percentages and re-normalizing provides the probability values shown in the video.
Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty that ruled Egypt since Alexander The Great's death. Her ancestors were Macedonian - saying that they built the Egyptian pyramids is like saying that conquistadors built the Mayan ones.
My wife & kids thing I've made that song Mahna Mahna up!! 🤣 I often hum & mumble it, & because they've never heard it, & I couldn't remember what it was called, I could never show them & prove it to them.. 🤣 They'd just laugh & say stuff like, as if we believe that anyone would sing that?! Evidence finally!!
6:34- “If you’re giving somebody emergency CPR.”
As opposed to, ya know, non-emergency CPR. It’s more of a casual kind of CPR, I guess.
Rofl causal CPR, nice. Friend says HEY what are you doing! Oh nothing just giving you some CPR...
Casual CPR for when you don’t actually want the person to live but want to look like you do lol
“I tried to save him”! Lol
I can think of several people I would only give casual CPR.
You know, casual CPR just between consenting adults on the weekends, behind closed doors, with the lights off, after consuming too much root beer.
When I was a young boy, I lived through hurricane Andrew (F5) in Homestead Fla (US) and it was scary as -uck. After it had passed, I found reeds of seagrass completely through & embedded into telephone poles. We had a really big mall made from cement and red brick and a huge blacktop parking lot, it was all gone. It was just erased from the face of the earth. There was just a dirt field with some random weeds sticking out of the ground. My neighbors' house was completely gone but the front stairs were still there with the welcome matt and the daily newspaper untouched. My friends older brother (who was going to start college) just got a brand new mustang, it still had the blue dye on the white writing on the sidewalls of the tires, two days old and they never found his car, the hurricane must have thrown it somewhere. It looked like we lived in the rubble of a war zone. It was scary, I remember seeing grown-ups fight each other for water. Male or female you don't want to experience a hurricane.
They never found the mustang? That cracks me up!
The pyramids weren't built by Cleopatra's ancestors. Cleopatra was of Greek descent, from the Ptolemeian dynasty, the descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals.
Maybe he should do a "Today I found out" about Cleopatra :D
Slaves didn't build the pyramids, and ancient Macedonians were Greek. Modern Macedonia has nothing to do with ancient Macedon.
Correct. Slaves of any specific race/type didn’t build the pyramids, though undoubtedly they were involved. The pyramids were built by freemen in the off season, while the fields were growing, then went home for the harvest. They lived in little towns built for the purpose, and were fed and paid. The pyramids were there long before Cleopatra’s ancestors were, and she was of Macedonian/Greek descent.
@@mangot589 yep it was like a public service. Ancient Egyptians were expected to give their labor to the government in the same way that modern people are expected to pay taxes.
Thanks for saying what I wanted to.
When I went through the yearly refresher my job requires, we were told that one of the two associations to teach and create the certifications now suggest 120 beats per minute. That and one of the two (I forget which one) now recommend not giving breaths during CPR. Something about the breaths not significantly increasing the survival rate while carrying a decent risk of contracting diseases while giving mouth to mouth.
I'm pretty sure Cleopatra's ancestors had nothing to do with the pyramids. While she was pharaoh of Egypt, her family was Greek in origin.
i was about to call them out on that also
yeah, but he meant the former rulers of egypt, not her family
dave freier he was just using that as a comparison. So you can compare points in time.
dave freier Macedonian/Greek
@@andreatomassini202 Pretty sure "Her ancestors" is a direct connection to a familial link
isnt it obvious why 1 shows up more... its where you start, you aren't always going to make it to 9 but you usually start at 1.
same reason you are "more likely to get into an accident within a few blocks of your house.... its not more dangerous there you are just there more often its where you both start and finish both trips.
"Countries in Louisiana?" Did he mean "counties in Louisiana?" And if he did, why did he pick one of only two states that don't HAVE counties?
Exactly what I was going to say! Lol
Louisiana has Parishes not counties or countries lol
Cheers mate
That is funny! 😆
The thing is, nobody cares unless they are from Louisiana. Yes technically they are parishes, but if you say "counties in Louisiana", we know what you mean. We also know that "50 states" includes 46 states and 4 commonwealths but most people understand and don't fuss over the distinction. "Countries" was funny though! (I know, 3 years late but hey it's the internet ;-p ) And apparently in Alaska they are called "boroughs" because why not!
Regarding hurricanes, guess we need to give them all masculine names from now on. It will apparently save lives.
or like killer charlie or mayhem mike
No no, giving them masculine names will offend the feminists!
Hell yes naming a hurricane something masculine will obviously drive the femtards..They will go defcon 5 and just meltdown
Or give them all feminine names and let natural selection take over...
Where can I find that Italian movie? For science and stuff...
Hey if ya happen to find it b4 I do.send me a link.or I'll send u one.nif I find 1st.ill um...help with some research.Gota be some kinda research,right?lmao
"Mah-na Mah-na" 😂
"Another one bites the dust" also works well for CPR.... oops
I was going to mention this. We were told this in our CPR training by the gent who ran the class.
@@qedsteve easier to remember too 😂
The Imperial March from Star Wars also fits the CPR rhythm.
Oops, I've been using Raining Blood by Slayer for my CPR rescues all this time.
So does "Another one bites the dust" by queen
So does "Another One Bites The Dust" and a lot of metal songs.
As does Nellie the Elephant, that's what they used where I was trained!
Highway to Hell as well
Some of us at work were trained in CPR and I found it amusing when they taught us to sing “Stayin Alive” to keep cadence. But I downright laughed out loud when they said that we could also sing “Another One Bites the Dust” because it had the same cadence.
“Nobody knows” why Benford’s law works. Wrong. It’s valid when you have data that scales over several magnitudes.
Numberphile have done a series on this.
Yes! I remember that. Also it seems fairly intuitive to me.
It's actually pretty easy to explain, as they do on Numberphile- if you have just 10 tickets, only 10% of them start with a 1. But if you have 11, 12, 13... etc... the number of tickets that start with 1 starts to go up. Once you reach 20 it goes down again, but once you reach 100, it starts going up, for another 100 numbers. The other numbers do this as well, but because 1 comes first in the pattern, it has a statistical advantage.
10 to 2 was OK, but the one about the Pyramids always gives me a small 'mind blown' moment no matter how many times I come across it!
11:40 Kleopatra's ancestors did not build the pyramids because none of her ancestors were Egyptian.
@daz ediss Slaves didnt build the pyramids either,,The new diggings around the site proved that like 10yrs ago,,,
ive also heard that the song
another one bites the dust is used for cpr.
Ironically "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen can also be used for CPR
Oops, I've been using Raining Blood by Slayer for my CPR rescues all this time.
11:04 Wouldnt it have been more pertinent to say that Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the first Little Caesar's than the building of the pyramids? Especially if you think about the fact that she gave birth to a little caesar
🤣😂😅
How about the women that fell out of a plane at 33,000 feet after it blew up and survived to walk again?
William Henry Might not of actually happened. Apparently the Yugoslavian airliner strayed off course, and was shot down by trigger happy Czechoslovakian air force pilots in a case of mistaken identification. Naturally this was embarrassing for the Communist governments of both countries, and they were saved by the survival of a single stewardess from the aircraft in question. So they invented a story about her surviving a descent of 33,000 ft/10,000 meters to turn it into a happy story; in reality the aircraft had descended to a few hundred feet at most. The stewardess had no memory of the incident, which made the authorities job of covering up easiet.
Peter Gray
I saw her in an interview and she remembered a lot! She was spotted falling for several minutes.
It really happenex.
All she had to do was land on a bail of hay, and she would have been fine.
The staying alive thing is... half true. There's a certain range of effective frequency for chest compressions, and Staying Alive's bpm is at the very lower end of that range. Ideally, you need to go a tad faster at 110 bpm, as the effective range is 100-120. I was taught this on a first aid course from St. John's ambulance in the UK. They were warning us of this factoid.
Thanks for the clarification. I have been using the Bee Gees song "How Deep is Your Love" to set my pace for CPR.
1 being the most common first number is quiet easily apparent to our numbering system.
the leading number 9 on 999 was only expressed for 10% of the numbers lower than 1000, but 1 leads all numbers until 2000. The logic is so simple I can hardly imagine anyone else could have made the error stated here, that no one knows!
jsbrads1 - Are you forgetting that numbers go above 2,000? Every number from 9,000 to 9,999 starts with a 9, which means an equal number of numbers between 1,000 and 9,999 begin with 1 as begin with 9. Just as an equal number of numbers from 1 to 999 start with 1 as start with 9.
Cassie C
I understood that there would be no math on this video?....
@js No math guy here but that sounds sorta right. if it was base 16 with 0-f we still must always start at 0 when counting? Nothing there 0 something there 1. Now I think the trick to that is we then count the measurement up as well. cm, m, km even to 1 AU as 149,597,871km. I'm to dumb to know or prove it but that's just my thoughts on the matter.
To put it another way octal base 8 but really that's us again. Binary true or false 1 or 0. is something there? yes 1 but how much and a string of 101010101010101 for the exact number but we can chop it down with a made up measuring system like AU, miles or km and say 10101AU. My binary is an example and not calculated to be correct in this explanation. Just as AU is an orbit that fluctuates and they picked a useful number. Could be 90-100 million miles or 150-160 million km and still be useful if we could travel space efficiently.
@@jayeisenhardt1337, if it were base 16, 1 would occur 25% of the time, rather than the 6.67% you might expect. Octal would be 1/3 rather than 1/7. There's a version of Benford's law for every non-binary base. (Well I suppose there's Benford's law for binary, too, but it'd state that "All binary numbers above 1.0 start with a '1'," hardly a revelation.)
Alternatively, if you're feeling pessimistic, you can also do CPR chest compressions to the beat of the Queen song, "Another One Bites the Dust."
Or realistic.
Cleopatra's ancestors didn't build the pyramids. She was Macedonian, not Egyptian.
Zarli Win
He doesn't mean Cleopatra as a single figure, per say, but is using her as an example of a line of pharaohs. He could have said, "By the time Cleopatra was ruling Egypt...". but he probably didn't expect it to be an issue.
Funny fact, there’s a Pizza Hut right by the pyramids
There are many articles and videos explaining how Benford's law works, and it's quite intuitive when you think about it, especially for higher numbers and things with exponential growth, that is, numbers that grow faster the higher they become. Imagine you're starting a business and you have 10 employees. It will likely take longer to expand from 10 employees to 20 than from 20 to 30 because from 10 to 20 is a growth of 100%, and a growth of 20 to 30 is a growth of just 50%. Each time 10 more employees are added, it's a proportionally smaller increase to your business and would take less time. Then when the business had 100 employees, the first digit will be 1 until it has 200, and the same logic will follow.
I'm even more confused now
Good Work Guys... Great list
my personal favourite "unbelievable" fact is oxford university older than the Aztec empire!
The Aztec and Inca empires had just barely got started when the Spanish destroyed them. Mayan civilization, however, was thousands of years older.
I don't mind conquest but it sucks when people destroy history and knowledge. If they got something to learn, steal that too.
We know exactly why Benford's law works as it's a mathematically provable phenomenon. It's counter-intuitive but completely understood.
I was in elementary school when hurricane Katrina happened. There was a poor girl named Katrina in my class and she was always picked last in PE. No one wanted her on their team.
here's another one: you could fit every planet in the solar system between the earth and the moon with room to spare
Wow, I did not know that... Great little fact there.
Much more interesting than anything on the list. Quite interesting too that if you fit them in there (using the average distance) it gets really tight.
whaaaat!
Neat fact i didnt know, thanks
"Great big pile of disappointing pizza!!!" LOL!!! You got that right!!! Small, local, family owned pizza places are the best ever!!!!
"Nobody survives that, unless that's not actually what happens and we're lying to you."
Cleopatra was not descended from the pyramid builders. She was Greek, descended from Alexander's general Ptolemy.
thank you!
my first aid instructor said you can also use another one bites the dust. Can you imagine that? giving chest compressions to someone keeping pace to that song while the person's family is watching in horror behind you
I'll give you a MIND BLOWING fact that sounds like BS but is true and also related to this video.
Swedish Sauna is a well used expression in English but fact is we don't have any saunas, there are some in a few bath houses but almost no one has one at home. Probably much less saunas per capita than US or England, look it up.
Bonus facts. The Swedish Chef in the Muppet show, his "language" sounds much more like Norwegian than Swedish.
Another great video, but I'd like to clarify Benford's Law a bit. First, it does not apply to truly random numbers, it generally applies to things we count. The roll of a die does not follow Benford nor does something in sequence, such as invoice or check numbers. Second, the reason Benford's works can be shown with a thought experiment. I'll start counting and you tell me when to stop... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.... If you tell me to stop during the first 20 numbers, half will start with 1, two will start with 2, and the rest of the digits appear only once. If you stop me at 200, then 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 17, 18, 19, and all of the 100 series will start with 1, so again, more than half the numbers will start with the digit 1. If you randomly stop me at any given point, say at 1,320, the most represented first digit is 1. If you stop me at 999, each digit is more fairly represented, but when it rolls over to 1,000, the digit 1 is again overrepresented. Unless you stop me close to the change of a decimal place, lower digits will always be over-represented.
I love #3. It's a fact I like telling people often when explaining that Soccer is my favorite sport.
I like the style. Although it's cool learning multiple packs about one thing, it's always fun once in a while learning 10 things. Maybe you could make this a once a week thing or something. That would be cool.
TopTenz
I love these!! I collect books of lists, one of my favorites being the 1975 The Peoples Almanac.
Please keep these going. I'm on the edge of my chair!
I literally choked on my drink with the line 'youve angered the almighty Zeus'
Pointless fact, I used to play staying alive when I have a zero death winning streak in first person shooters.
It seemed to help me stay alive longer
In our CPR refresher class taught by a firefighter, he also suggested Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" to get the same rhythmic beat. (got a few predictable laughs)
The T-Rex is closer to us than to a Stegosaurus by some margin.
@baronflemp First Stegosaurus is 150 millions years ago while the last T-Rex was about 65 million years ago.
Cleopatra, the Pyramids and Ceasar - Historical perspective is amazing.
I thought the song (#9) was called "Phenomena".
There is a version called Phenomenon. The video has Sandra Bullock in it.
have to have to include Alan Eugene Magee! American B-17 Airman that survived a 22,000 foot fall. in fact, holds the record. some German soldiers happened to witness a portion of the fall and thought they were coming upon a dead body only to realize, he was still alive. they gave him medical care but still threw him in a POW camp. however, many of the German soldiers gave him excellent treatment, as they said "obviously, God wanted him alive."
great video as always Mr. Whistler and co.!
SmOki Namron
Actually a Polish stewardess fell 30,000 feet after her plane blew apart. I think she's holds the record in Guinness.
Although queen of Egypt, Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian. She was Greek, descendant from Ptolemy. Therefore her ancestor didn't build the pyramids,
Afaik the Ptolemaic Pharaoh Cleopatra wasn't related at all to the builders of the pyramids. Aside from that, she was of the line of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, and was named after Alexander's sister, Cleopatra of Macedon. This last fact caused some consternation between my friends and I this past week, which is why I remember it.
I have said it before i will say it again. Simon. You are a ABSOLUTE LEGEND
There is a Queen song that also has the right beats per minute for chest compressions. But most people shy away from “Another One Bites the Dust,” in those situations, though...
The song "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen has the same underlying beat as "Stayin' Alive", giving it a more twisted use during CPR
Kinda funny that a song that goes "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life goes on." is used for CPR training. :P
Red Skelton used "Mahna, mahna" in a series of sketches featuring "moon men" on his tv show in the early '60's...
Number 5-
Cmon, I’ve watched the office like a million times
People are always miffed when I tell them there isn't any sand in the desert. It's dust and rocks.
looks like I'm not racing in F1
I actually was SHOCKED by the F1 so I did research and it is completely BS at least to the point that they make it seem in this video... it isn't NEARLY like "catwalk models" to compare it to that is an insult to every person who has developed eating disorders because of the modeling industry/beauty mags/beauty industry... If you LOOK up the F1 guys BMI's they are actually HEALTHY!!! going back all the way to 2013 at least! But still, they are putting a MINIMUM weight for seat/driver of 80KGs for 2019, and one guy said that he finally "gained some weight" despite being a COMPLETELY NORMAL 130 at 5'5".......... just wow..... it is insulting and misinformed.... jockeys and models really are suffering not overpaid racers. Sure their jobs are dangerous, hence they're making bank, and yeah their weights might be monitored, but they're allowed to be a healthy weight.
_F1 Driver: There's another caution with 10 laps to go. GIMME 2 FRESH TIRES AND 4 JELLY DONUTS!_
about #5, the same can be said more ironically for "Another one bites the dust" by Queen
err why doesn't f1 just standardize the weight of the driver at something a little more than what all the drivers weigh and use ballast? would certainly solve that idiocy.
They do precisely that. More ballast and less driver is advantageous, though, because you can stuff the lead into the deepest, lowest recesses of the car, lowering the center of mass.
the solution to that is to standardize ballast location in the cockpit.
to clarify, the ballast are there to cause regularity of driver weight, shouldn't they be in the seat?
Because the teams would simply make the parts lowest heavier in response. The same technical rules apply in every other big name racing series, too, there just isn't a fraction of the money at stake in any of them. F1 dwarfs NASCAR and IndyCar combined in commercial investment.
The engineers obsess over driver weight but in the end it doesn't matter that much or else Danica Patrick (100 lbs)would have 52 wins in NASCAR & Indy while her former teammate, Tony Stewart (180 lbs) would only have 1 win, instead of the other way around.
If a team's two drivers have markedly different weights, the seats won't be the same weight. Seats, in fact are not common at all. Each seat pan and back is molded specifically to each driver. I'm not just talking about the padding but rather the entire seat assembly itself. As far as the other teams, the number of non-engine parts in common between cars is virtually zero. Wheels, brakes, and fasteners may be common commodity items, but even within those assemblies, parts vary. The teams fabricate even the center wheel nuts themselves. Brake cooling ducts, all suspension components, and every shard of carbon fiber bodywork is specific to each team and some of those can vary from race to race and not in sync between the team's two cars.F1 doesn't work like NASCAR or Indy. The teams build their own clean sheet designs from the ground up, in accordance with the technical rules agreed upon by the teams and the FIA. There are no body templates like NASCAR or a single chassis supplier serving up cookie cutter cars to all the teams, like Indy. Every F1 team builds its own car. This has been central to F1 since the beginning.
We understand Benford's law well, and 9 showing up obviously does not have an infinitessimal chance. You even showed the distribution?
How many of the numbers 1-199 start with 1? Of 1-500? Of 1-999? And lastly, 1-1999? Track the distribution as the size increases and you'll see it goes up and down between 100% and 11%. 9 goes up and down between 11% and 0%. The average is the rate of the leading digit being n of a number of unknown size.
Precisely. It even approaches a logistic distribution as the distribution should be consistent as you increase the number of digits
Yes, "no one knows" is a cop-out way of saying, "I didn't understand the Wikipedia entry and I was too embarrassed to ask a mathematician." This is about as dumb as Nelson Muntz saying, "That's like asking the square root of a million. No one will ever know."
And even more ironically when in CPR training you are also told that humming Another one bites the dust works because it also follows the same beat
What a fab Top Tenz! Thanks y'all!
TopTenz
I think Pele think was false.. Please confirm.
Cleopatra was not Egyptian, she was a descendant of the Macedonian general Ptolemy who claimed the area after Alexander the Great's death. Cleopatra was famous for being the first in her line to even speak Egyptian, she was of course also the last. If TopTenz are so blasé with details, I wonder if there are other errors
Not sure about the timing here? I thought that she dated Alexander? and had a treaty with him. If she did how did she come to power when her power came after Alexanders death?
I am not a historian.
She didn't date him he was dead when she was born.
Batting averages starting with 1 is a bad example. Unless they're a pitcher, having a batting average of .100 something is very bad. Most batting averages of decent players will be .200 something, with the great ones being .300 something.
Rezzy but they all actually start with 0.
Cleopatra was of Greek descent. Her ancestors didn't build the pyramids.
She lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids.
Highest fall that somebody survived: 10,160 Meters from a bombed jet liner, Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant, was ejected from the aircraft as it broke apart. Jan 26, 1972.
guessing a 1 at the beginning of a number won't affect how close you were, it will just increase the number of digits you got right.
amazing to learn that about Cleopatra. Seems so counterintuitive, but true...
Cleopatra was not related to the pyramid builders. She was Macedonian Greek. Her fore bearers were part of Alexander the Great's army that conquered Egypt in 332 BC. After that the royal family of the Egyptians were the descendants of those installed by Alexander. Also, he founded the city of Alexandra, Egypt.
Correction soccer has caused 2 war's, the one you mentioned and the soccer/football war that still rages to this day.
4:35 #7 The ideal sand or aggregate for use in cement/concrete should be coarse and highly abrasive so the mortar has a lot of surface area to latch onto as it cures.
Another perfect song to perform CPR is Queen's Another one bites the dust. Ironically! Lol
Late in WWII, my father was in the military hospital at what is now Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and shared a room with a soldier who had been struck by clear-air lightning while on guard patrol. The guard was fine while awake, but the lightning had made tiny holes in his scalp and the soles of his feet which oozed blood when he slept and the muscles in these areas relaxed. Don't mess with Mother Nature!
This is like a greatest hits. I've heard all these before
Hahaha learned #5 in the office!!! Then Dwight proceeded to remove the dummy's face like Hannibal lector!! Miss that show!! ❤❤❤
Watches number 8; Laughs in Astronaut.
Just a heads up about Benford's Law. You said that you can use it for baseball batting averages, but because of the way that batting averages work, 2 and 3 would be the most likely premier number. I'm not saying this model or what you picked is wrong, it just may not be the right case.
In another century one of the facts on a list like this will be "can you believe that as late as 2017 the British were known for drinking warm beer and having a Queen?"
"Really?"
"Yea, rilly."
the CPR also works with AD/DCs Highway to Hell :D
The Egyptian's who built the pyramids weren't Cleopatra's ancestors, her family was Macedonian and her only relation would be that of a concubine
#2, it also depends on the numberbase used.
for example, in binary (and perhaps unary) every number other than 0 starts with a 1.
And because 1 exists in more numberbases than 2 it also has more chances to start a number than 2, and because 2 exists in more numberbases than 3 it has more chances to start a number than 3... ad infinitum
I seriously doubt most batting averages start with a 1. At least for players that still have a spot in the lineup.
If I ever get struck by lightning, I'm going to a tattooist before I go to a doctor.
Cleopatra's ancestors weren't Egyptian. You mean predecessors.
Lightning scars are not caused by "static electricity", which implies that the charges aren't moving. The discharge MOVED through the victim and towards the Earth (ground).
These are fantastic! Please, please make more. :)
Another song used for CPR rhythm is "Another one Bites the Dust". I call it insensitive - how would you feel if your relative was dying & you could mind-read? You're either hearing "Staying Alive" or "Another One Bites the Dust". How stuffed up is that?
I saw F1 and CLICKED!
Derek Roig same
Simon, there is a lot of evidence, from Egyptologists, but also geologists and other fields that all agree the pyramids are quite a bit older than the 2500 BC time that has been the established 'dates' for the pyramids. Pls look into it, it might be a nice 'today I found out'
I love your show!
Tfw when you wanted to jump off the Empire State Building because you are depressed, only to be caught by the guards resulting in fines and jail time, making you even more depressed
F-Zero (by the same people as F-1) currently requires teams to have two cars. About halfway through the race drivers get out of the first car and into the second. To encourage fitness (lower weights), the F-Zero rules originally would have required drivers to jump a barrier, run 100 yards on foot, then jump another barrier. By the first race however, they decided it was best to park the first car about 2 feet from and facing opposite from the second. Drivers must still unbelt, remove the steering wheel, jump out, step to the other car, jump in, belt up, and install a steering wheel as fast as possible. So fitness is still an issue.
Formula E?
Formula Zero was a short-lived hydrogen car race series, with no F1 affiliation, in the late 2000’s
The Formula E car swap went away after the 2017-8 season.
I find the hurricane fact a bit funny because right now I am sitting in my house here in Florida listening to hurricane Irma rage outside...😁
The Empire State Building was the first building built that was high enough that if you jumped off you would reach terminal velocity before hitting the ground.
Two things - a. soccer did not start a war: the Honduran - El Salvadoran conflict was a parallel event to the World Cup qualifying game, which was then mythologized as the impetus to the brief war. b. it's actually not too difficult to understand why the number 1 is the most common first digit in a random number, it has to do with scaling: regardless of the number of digits in a number as you increase the number value of the quantity to be measured the progression is such that when you arrive at a number that starts with a 1 (say 1000), you will need to DOUBLE the number of the measured quantity units order to reach the new leading digit (2000), an increase of 100 %, whereas to increase the value from 2000 to 3000 only requires an increase of 50 %, from 3000 to 4000, an increase of 33 %, etc. Taking all those increase percentages and re-normalizing provides the probability values shown in the video.
Stayin Alive has the same beat as Another One Bites the Dust. A bit of morbid irony for CPR
You can also use the Imperial March from Star Wars to do CPR to. Creepy, but the beat is the same.
Cleopatra's ancestors did not build the pyramids.
Alien lizard people?
Steven Walker
The ones that are impregnating all the women in LA?
Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty that ruled Egypt since Alexander The Great's death. Her ancestors were Macedonian - saying that they built the Egyptian pyramids is like saying that conquistadors built the Mayan ones.
The Egyptians certainly didn't
number 2 got me rich. I got so much money making bets about benford's law. I take numbers 1-3 and the competitor take 5-9, sounds fair right?
My wife & kids thing I've made that song Mahna Mahna up!! 🤣 I often hum & mumble it, & because they've never heard it, & I couldn't remember what it was called, I could never show them & prove it to them.. 🤣 They'd just laugh & say stuff like, as if we believe that anyone would sing that?! Evidence finally!!
whats better than a soccer team starting wars ?? a plane full of them crashing and 6 surviving