A horseshoe brings good luck and more

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  • @rdvrdv8920
    @rdvrdv8920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    That vintage calculator looked pretty Sharp.

  • @SaturnCanuck
    @SaturnCanuck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That was good. I heard something similar years ago about a chessboard. One grain of wheat on the first square and doubling each time. By the end, the man took the entire kingdom from the King.

    • @zalibecquerel3463
      @zalibecquerel3463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm pretty sure the Curiosity Show did this as a segment too!

    • @Cahos_Rahne_Veloza
      @Cahos_Rahne_Veloza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Ancient Chinese version of this same "trickery with exponentials" is about a wiseman tricking a rich emperor with grains of rice. The story goes as follows...
      The Emperor asked the wiseman to build him a storage house to store his estate's rice harvest. The wiseman complied and in return he asked only for a single grain of rice that doubles in number for 100 days... and you probably guessed what happens next.

    • @edzejandehaan9265
      @edzejandehaan9265 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Calculate it. You'll find he demanded quite a lot more than just the entire kingdom.
      Ah well, knowing Kings, he probably just got executed...🤣

  • @zalibecquerel3463
    @zalibecquerel3463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    From the thumbnail, I thought this was going to be about the puzzle where you cut a horseshoe into six pieces using only two straight lines. I'm sure there's a segment on it somewhere.

    • @menenjoyer356
      @menenjoyer356 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Two diagonal lines that mirror each other can cut it into six pieces, btw.

  • @Miguel_Altmann
    @Miguel_Altmann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The big question here is...how did the Blacksmith got his hands on a calculator, hundreds of years ago?

    • @Ensource
      @Ensource 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      abacus lol

    • @U014B
      @U014B 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's why he was so poor: he bought a time machine, traveled to the 1980s, bought a calculator, then came back.

    • @rommiemex9532
      @rommiemex9532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@U014B yeap. And he used the money he got from the horseshoe trick to fund the time machine!

    • @EdDrow
      @EdDrow 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Black magic

    • @timharig
      @timharig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then you use the formula for a geometric series summation: (1-r^n)/(1-r) = (1 - 2^24)/(1-2) = 16777215 cents.

  • @LudosErgoSum
    @LudosErgoSum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In all the years I used a calculator nobody told me what use the M button is for
    until today. Mind thoroughly blown!

    • @timharig
      @timharig 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why calculators have manuals.

  • @uriituw
    @uriituw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Any programmer ought to know this.

  • @DavidB-rx3km
    @DavidB-rx3km 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:56 2:41 them sound effects!

  • @89horizon
    @89horizon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    And thus the blacksmith was stabbed and the naval man got the horseshoes for "free" :P

    • @Aurochhunter
      @Aurochhunter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What would a naval man need a horse for?

    • @sweatygenius
      @sweatygenius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Aurochhunter Obviously for his seahorses.

    • @89horizon
      @89horizon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sweatygenius Wow... that's honestly one of the best replies ever. Not even kidding! 👏👏

    • @WhuDhat
      @WhuDhat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@89horizon right, he needs more likes

    • @TheKnobCalledTone.
      @TheKnobCalledTone. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sweatygenius you win the internet today, sir!

  • @Maninawig
    @Maninawig 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My guess:
    ((2^23)+1)/100= $83'886.09
    Guess I forgot to calculate the rest... Hmm I wonder if this is a factoral calculation.

  • @royksk
    @royksk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember this from my schooldays over 60 years ago 🧐

    • @dtec30
      @dtec30 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curiosity_Show

  • @dtec30
    @dtec30 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i wonder if the bill was paid lol

  • @xpopa
    @xpopa 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    sum = (2 ^ 25) - 1

  • @HazeAnderson
    @HazeAnderson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2 + 2 = xD