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  • @singingbanana
    @singingbanana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2235

    Thanks for joining in!

    • @anselmschueler
      @anselmschueler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      So it counts?

    • @blackshirts_and_breads
      @blackshirts_and_breads 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      the man the myth the legend

    • @sofia.eris.bauhaus
      @sofia.eris.bauhaus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@blackshirts_and_breads the one and only banana

    • @badgoogle9938
      @badgoogle9938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@anselmschueler no one said it had to be base 10

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Bad Google But they clearly said it had to be bigger than 1 million, so it doesn’t matter the base.

  • @morzathoth919
    @morzathoth919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1992

    Inviting themselves to a party and starting to rant about base 6 feels like an incredibly jan Misali thing to do.

    • @Maric18
      @Maric18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      also exactly the type of person who should make a video about megafavnumbers

    • @kamikamkamm
      @kamikamkamm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It really does

    • @thrownstair
      @thrownstair 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Misali Coming Out Of His Well To Shame Decimalists

    • @darcy6698
      @darcy6698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      666 likes...

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@darcy6698 What's so special about 3030?

  • @bluemarb1e787
    @bluemarb1e787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    “Is this cheating? Yes. Do I care? Immensely.”
    Good morals are the reason I come to this conlang channel for math videos

  • @pseudo_goose
    @pseudo_goose 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1644

    choosing 1 million as a lower bound meant that they had a reason to put "mega" in the hash tag. qed

    • @alansmithee419
      @alansmithee419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Wait, how does this relate to quantum electrodynamics?

    • @DragonWinter36
      @DragonWinter36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +205

      alan smithee QED also stands for _quod erat demonstrandum_, a Latin phrase meaning “which had to be demonstrated.” It is customary to write QED after completing a proof.

    • @juneguts
      @juneguts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DragonWinter36 no it's not. ive never seen anyone do that

    • @ravindrawiguna8681
      @ravindrawiguna8681 4 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      @@juneguts well just because u never seen something like that doesnt mean it is wrong/ not the truth bro, like that is what QED is

    • @venustior
      @venustior 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      @@juneguts I mean, it definitely is. Your personal awareness of something is not what makes it real

  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas1015119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +621

    "is this cheating? yes
    do I care? immensely"
    *lmao*

    • @swaree
      @swaree 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      caught me completely off guard

  • @TheUnnamedGent
    @TheUnnamedGent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +762

    a million is the largest number not valid for selection as a mega favourite number

    • @hellobye9178
      @hellobye9178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      obviously.

    • @pentelegomenon1175
      @pentelegomenon1175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Perhaps Jan should have been investigating the properties of 1,000,001 instead, since that was the actual bottom limit.

    • @anawesomepet
      @anawesomepet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@pentelegomenon1175 1,000,001: the smallest number allowed in MFN

    • @augustday9483
      @augustday9483 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

  • @venandii5017
    @venandii5017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +666

    I enjoy the point of the video where I don't understand what he's saying and honestly I just hear sounds coming out of his mouth, but when he says it there's a smile on his face and that makes me happy.

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      did you try watching his bases video?

    • @s.j7423
      @s.j7423 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      you can tell he's smiling:))
      these videos bring me joy

    • @EduardVE314
      @EduardVE314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is common stuff for this channel

    • @sineadthomas2024
      @sineadthomas2024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Drive A Sandwich I understood that video way more than this one

    • @joda7697
      @joda7697 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      he's counting in seximal i think

  • @MrPkletsplay
    @MrPkletsplay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +306

    Petition to have jan be invited to all future TH-cam math parties.
    It would be a shame if this level of deadpan was missing from my favorite community

    • @gabotron94
      @gabotron94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Imagine some day he shows up on Numberphile

    • @joda7697
      @joda7697 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      for real some of if not my absolute favourite math content is from him

    • @BrightyLighty_
      @BrightyLighty_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      true. TH-cam math parties are typically no fun without people

    • @caritahearts2405
      @caritahearts2405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Buts its way funnier if he just Shows Up

    • @thej3799
      @thej3799 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gabotron94thoughty6

  • @robdoghd
    @robdoghd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +559

    i go to the cash register to pay for my groceries, but jan misali manifests from the change drawer to tell me my decimal bills are not only worthless, but disgusting. i pay with a nif dollar bill, urge the cashier not to bother with change, and continue on my way.

    • @DragonWinter36
      @DragonWinter36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      robdoghotdog Unbeknownst to the cashier, you underpaid, and are snickering as you walk away

    • @J1428753
      @J1428753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry but what is nif here?

    • @J1428753
      @J1428753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      nevermind, kept watching

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      J1428753 I think it's 36? He has a whole system for naming things base 6, he made a video on it

    • @Zachyshows
      @Zachyshows ปีที่แล้ว +3

      then the cashier tells you to use dozenal next time

  • @Snidbert
    @Snidbert 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Learning why base 720720 is "icosifetabakerheptelevenary" is some deep jan Misali lore and I'm here for it.

    • @riccardoboa742
      @riccardoboa742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I can’t- “Jan Misali lore”

    • @yuvalne
      @yuvalne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      check out the video "a base-neutral system for naming numbering systems"

    • @Snidbert
      @Snidbert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@yuvalne i did, actually. in hindsight, i think the comment should have been on that video.

  • @ethansmall581
    @ethansmall581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +791

    I love Jan misali just hijacking a TH-cam event he wasn’t invited to and then spending half the time nitpicking it and doing random math

    • @seabassthegamer6644
      @seabassthegamer6644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I'm pretty sure it's an open event that anyone can participate in.

    • @kjetil1845
      @kjetil1845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@seabassthegamer6644 those who were invited released their video at the same time and at the end of each of their video they encourage everyone to create their own video with the hashtag

    • @bsharpmajorscale
      @bsharpmajorscale 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Arguing about bases is such a mathematician thing to do.

  • @rodbennett
    @rodbennett 4 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    I suppose that is what you would call a Parker Mega Number. Highly appropriate for a playlist started by Matt Parker.

    • @nift36
      @nift36 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL "parker mega number"

  • @g4_61
    @g4_61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    You thought it was a number over a million, but it was I, BASE 6!

    • @Kalobi
      @Kalobi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sacha7958 But it's bigger than 1000000 (in base 6).

    • @dmitriivlasov3728
      @dmitriivlasov3728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Is this a fukin' JoJo reference under a math video!?

    • @g4_61
      @g4_61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dmitriivlasov3728 Why yes it is.

    • @pie6029
      @pie6029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dmitriivlasov3728 jojo is everywhere.

    • @dmitriivlasov3728
      @dmitriivlasov3728 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pie6029 But you don't expect it under a math video, do you?

  • @stelcxantisto
    @stelcxantisto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +423

    50%: "Why I like 720720."
    50%: Try to explain away the cheating.

    • @davidbledsoe7592
      @davidbledsoe7592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Did anyone specify that they meant one million in decimal? The trend was made up randomly for no reason at all so interpreting it as any random base for no reason at all is wholly acceptable.

    • @stelcxantisto
      @stelcxantisto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@davidbledsoe7592 ISP: "Did anyone specify that we meant megabits in decimal?" hmmmmm... sounds like a good excuse.🤣

    • @HBMmaster
      @HBMmaster  4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      funny you'd mention megabits, since that's one of the contexts where what base you mean with mega- actually can be ambiguous

    • @shinydino
      @shinydino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      jan Misali Math vernacular is democratic fight me

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@davidbledsoe7592 Yes, by using the word "one million." Also "mega," though that can also mean 1,048,576.

  • @ALUMOX
    @ALUMOX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    NUMBER GET BIG BRAIN RELEASE THE GOOD CHEMICALS

  • @machaiarcanum
    @machaiarcanum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    You can practically hear the smile when he talks.

    • @zane49er51
      @zane49er51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I enjoy your profile and banner so much I subscribed

    • @machaiarcanum
      @machaiarcanum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zane49er51 Haha, thanks I guess. :)

    • @machaiarcanum
      @machaiarcanum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Graystripe Haha, yes, that’s me. You are?

    • @machaiarcanum
      @machaiarcanum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Graystripe Yes, we probably have similar tastes

  • @felipevasconcelos6736
    @felipevasconcelos6736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    How is this channel so perfect?

    • @destinyvoltaire
      @destinyvoltaire 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I think it's just that it beautifully represents a sort of ideal form of what TH-cam can be, just a person making great content about random stuff he's interested, nothing corporate about it.

    • @whatno5090
      @whatno5090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@destinyvoltaire Bill Wurtz *is* that ideal

    • @B3Band
      @B3Band 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      do you play drms?

    • @potatoonastick2239
      @potatoonastick2239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This. jan Misali is literally god tier, there's just something about the authenticity of these videos. He just uploads whatever the fuck he feels like, whether it'd be math, linguistics, game analysis or just literal fucking shitposts which make no sense to anyone. It's perfect!

    • @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046
      @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's jan Misali, here's my tier list:
      Low tier: Xidnaf (He doesn't upload)
      Moderate tier: Langfocus (Good but not great)
      Hier tier: Ewa (Great)
      God tier: Artefexian (Epic, but not that epic)
      Tier 1: Biblaridion (THAT epic)
      Tier 0: jM (Secret)

  • @JoeyGirardin
    @JoeyGirardin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    Who else is hyped for the Quenya episode coming up?

    • @blackbolt3066
      @blackbolt3066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Who isn’t?

    • @water594
      @water594 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@blackbolt3066 what sample size are we using here? Humanity? The local sol system? The galaxy? The galactic supercluster?
      Cause everyone in the galactic supercluster be waiting on baited breath afaik

    • @blackbolt3066
      @blackbolt3066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Water We’re talkin multidimensional googleplexes my G.

    • @globalincident694
      @globalincident694 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@el.k9776 What list?

    • @IntergalacticPotato
      @IntergalacticPotato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@globalincident694 The "small list" for upcoming Conlang Critic episodes

  • @theskeletonposse6432
    @theskeletonposse6432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    showed up for the conlang reviews, stayed for the nerdass mathematics

  • @heck_n_degenerate940
    @heck_n_degenerate940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    A questionably niche video by jan misali with a slight math focus?
    Friday is gud.

  • @davidbledsoe7592
    @davidbledsoe7592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    It's so refreshing when anyone points out that even though we only have 8+2 fingers, decimal is not the only base that exists❤ I'm glad this video was recommended, you seem awesome and all your viewers love you and I'm probably going to love you too

  • @CuriousNeon
    @CuriousNeon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Of course, you're gonna use seximal system lmfao!

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I subscribed after watching your video on regular polyhedra, which was so well made that I for one consider you a valuable contributor to the TH-cam math community.

  • @Ryanisthere
    @Ryanisthere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Oh my god he actually got into the playlist
    WHAT A GOD
    never thought the language nerd would make it into the maths playlist

  • @blze
    @blze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    why was this in my recommended it was just posted

    • @blze
      @blze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      oh i'm subscribed

    • @watergrowsifwatered8048
      @watergrowsifwatered8048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hes the hangman guy (im guess thats where you came from?)

    • @MrOrzech1
      @MrOrzech1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@blze and because it's a great shitpost that is too smart too understand xD
      Also who doesn't like shitposts?

  • @grimer1746
    @grimer1746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The best consistency I’ve ever witnessed.

  • @dominicdoherty7208
    @dominicdoherty7208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm proud of Jan Misali for branching out into esoteric and niche mathematics. I don't know if you guys know, but he can't review conlangs forever. I enjoy this content AND Conlang Critic. Let's hope more interesting topics will come to him! Tenpo suno ni o pona tawa sina!

    • @BrightyLighty_
      @BrightyLighty_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hey Dominic what the hell does "today, you should fix yourself!" mean in this context /lh

    • @dominicdoherty7208
      @dominicdoherty7208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BrightyLighty_ bro idk its been a year, could not tell you the context

  • @Frownlandia
    @Frownlandia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    720720 is the closest thing I have to a favorite whole number, but it's because it's the smallest number divisible by every number up to and including 16.
    And it looks nice in base 10, I can't help it.

  • @jumpythehat
    @jumpythehat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    You should make your sign-off be "anyway that's it, I don't have a sign-off" in that casual, defeated tone of voice

    • @pfeilspitze
      @pfeilspitze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My sign-off is every sign-off not used in a TH-cam video.

  • @TheKartana
    @TheKartana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I spent the whole time wondering how you were going to declare that 720720 is technically above 1000000 and was not disappointed

  • @Mercure250
    @Mercure250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Math channels : Wait, that's illegal
    jan Misali : *chad Nordic gamer* Yes.

  • @Tumbolisu
    @Tumbolisu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "It's in seximal" just completely caught me offguard and I love it.

  • @muteto2686
    @muteto2686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    tenpo kama la sina jan pi nansi nanpa. sina ken ala pini ni.
    you are now a math person. you cannot stop this.

  • @columbus8myhw
    @columbus8myhw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Another way to think about the 1,000,000 OEIS fact: say you have 36 equally spaced points on a circle. You want to select some of them so that their center of mass is the center of the circle. How many ways can you do it?
    Numberphile made a video on this, phrasing it in terms of centrifuges, if I remember right. If you spin a centrifuge whose center of mass is off-center, bad things happen (it breaks probably?). Your centrifuge has 36 slots around its edge. How many ways can you fill them in? (This phrasing also makes it easier to explain why we count the empty configuration - otherwise, I'm pretty sure you only get 999,999.)

  • @TheAnalyticalEngine
    @TheAnalyticalEngine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The last time I was this early, base 60 was _super_ in-vogue.

  • @RWTWM
    @RWTWM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is my first time on your channel, and I've no idea if I'll be back, but I loved every second of that.

  • @gabrielrizeriogalaxtor
    @gabrielrizeriogalaxtor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I found your channel last week and I’m practically in love with it: you speak about languages, you speak of music and now math? What is the next? Games? Movies? Anyway, I really like to be one of your subscribers.

  • @twixerclawford
    @twixerclawford 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wasn't expecting seximal to be brought back in such an integral way in another video, but I'm not disappointed it made an appearance.

  • @Othelbark
    @Othelbark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    "Is this cheating? Yes. Do I care? Immensely-"
    It may just be because I've accidentally found myself staying up to 5am but that 'immensely' made me laugh the hardest I have in months.

  • @kirby_tardigrade
    @kirby_tardigrade 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    my favorite number over 1 million is 1,001,672 because one time when i was a little kid i was trying to think of a "random" number and said "one million thousand six hundred seventy two!" i was later informed that a million thousand was not the same as one million one thousand, but i intended the latter. even now it's my go-to silly big number

  • @dantrizz
    @dantrizz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i would've thought 1 million is the bound for the #megafavnumber because "mega favourite" is a colloquialism that people recognise and mega is the mathematical notion with well defined meaning for 10 to the 6.
    So its a double entendre thus making it easier to remember and more fun

  • @jemiller226
    @jemiller226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hearing Misali rattle off numbers in non-decimal bases just puts a smile on my face even if I don't understand a damn bit of what he said. (Yes, I understand bases, just not the language.)

  • @davidalearmonth
    @davidalearmonth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What they don't tell you is that 1000000 is really just 64. :)

  • @concrete401
    @concrete401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "Isn't that a little . . . decimal-centric?" #staywoke

  • @evanswart480
    @evanswart480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Do you feel like now that your recent video essays have gotten more engagement and you've gotten a successful format that you'll ever become a "weird video essay" channel or a "weird math" channel?

    • @witmoreluke
      @witmoreluke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol, he's made a hard pivot into Rhythm Heaven content so I guess that solved that question!

  • @alansmithee419
    @alansmithee419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Why one million?
    Because "megafavnumber" is a better name than any other potential prefix, say, kilofavnumber, or gigafavnumber.
    It's just nice, and "mega" is often used colloquially to just mean "big," so it's something everyone hears more than the other prefixes.

    • @HBMmaster
      @HBMmaster  4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      you've got it backways, the name of the event didn't come first

    • @alansmithee419
      @alansmithee419 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HBMmaster fair enough.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HBMmaster
      What event? Matt Parker wanted to know everyone's MegaFavNumbers, and choose 1 million because 1 MEGA[something] is 10^6 of [something].

    • @HBMmaster
      @HBMmaster  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kindlin you got the causality backwards

    • @Dr._Geno
      @Dr._Geno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@HBMmaster hey at least he didn't break causality, that would doom us all.

  • @nim64
    @nim64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    we got baited so hard

  • @g4_61
    @g4_61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "Threeven?" Wait, are *you* on that dozenal subreddit?

    • @HBMmaster
      @HBMmaster  4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      no

    • @g4_61
      @g4_61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      jan Misali oh ok bc someone on there proposed the word “threeven.”

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      How dare you accuse him of heresy?

    • @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046
      @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RyanTosh Ikr, dozenal is TRASH
      Third to both Seximal and "Longsimal"

    • @pentelegomenon1175
      @pentelegomenon1175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 Google isn't telling me what longsimal is.

  • @RichConnerGMN
    @RichConnerGMN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    can't say i didn't see that coming

  • @lumppump1182
    @lumppump1182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The way you use "decimal centric" and decide that your number is in seximal is so perfect

  • @Veronica-mx7yj
    @Veronica-mx7yj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well now we’ve got an explanation for the icosifetabakerheptelevenary name from his new video.

  • @Norbal.
    @Norbal. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Highly composite"
    Me, a numberphile: anti-primes

  • @OliviaSNava
    @OliviaSNava 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Imagine calling anti-primes “highly composite numbers”P

  • @tiffyw92
    @tiffyw92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Don't worry, jan, I consider you a member of the black-background-video-format-Tubers because they are a dying breed that is worth reviving for the sheer simplicity.
    Also, while I'm on topic, my fave number over 10^6 is probably gonna be 10^12 not because of any particular maths, but because of Chinese characters, specifically the character 兆 (zhào), and its history. See, there used to be an obscure debate over the definition of this character's numerical value (it has multiple meanings depending on context) during the era when the Communist and the Nationalist Parties split between mainland China and Taiwan. While there were many kinds of casualties, one of them was a strict definition of this character. To this day, in China the character is defined to be a "million," while in Taiwan, who was prone to following certain Japanese traditions due to their strong allied affiliation with Japan at the time, has defined it as a "trillion."
    I grew up in America, but most of my Chinese teachers here were from Taiwan, so they adhered to said system. So, when I'd later come to read texts from mainland China (outside of my studies with them because there was still this strange stigma around using mainland Chinese texts back in the 90s for reasons I can't comprehend) that used this character as a number, it'd usually throw me into a tizzy when I'd translate the numbers wrong, especially in regards to the alleged counts of army rations during certain ancient historic wartime stories. There's a huge difference between several "millions" of kg of grain and several "trillions" of kg of grain, and it subtly skewed the direction of people's motives if the translation was wrong. (Then again, usually those numbers came into play talking about how much the peasants lost during wartime, rather than what they demanded after loss.) While I'd easily be able to correct for context, it always stuck around in my head that this character had undergone such a strange transition in history.
    That aside, 兆 is generally not specifically defined as a numerical value and can simply be described as "a myriad"... On that note, the word "myriad" also has an interesting history to look into, but that's a whole 'nother story.

  • @Tuskan_the_tuskan
    @Tuskan_the_tuskan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "We might have to find a bigger name than 'super rectangle.'"
    -Twelve

  • @realmless4193
    @realmless4193 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice to see someone who also knows the magic of 720,720. It's my favorite number to because it just so happened to appear on my magic system.

  • @foureyesisafish7968
    @foureyesisafish7968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mega is the metric prefix for 1,000,000, so that's probably why

  • @Luigicat11
    @Luigicat11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Is there anything special about the number one million that doesn't rely on the way it's represented in base ten?"
    My sibling in antiprimes, it's literally in the name. MEGA fav numbers.

  • @jontedeakin1986
    @jontedeakin1986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how you say seximal numbers

  • @potatoonastick2239
    @potatoonastick2239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much for these math videos. They're well told, extremely well paced, while still containing interesting information to a certain depth. I personally enjoy them more than most of your linguistics videos, but I might just be more interested in obscure mathematics, compared to obscure lingustics.

  • @jimmykeffer7401
    @jimmykeffer7401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “icosifetabakerheptelevenary” hits different after your latest vid

  • @rauhamanilainen6271
    @rauhamanilainen6271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Missed the chance at 4:29 to say "720,720 is a great number, but it still isn't greater than a million."

  • @Scum42
    @Scum42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The absolute best thing about this video, by far, is talking about how strange it is that 1,000,000 is the cutoff point for two minutes and then finally going "My favorite is 720,720"

  • @tonyhakston536
    @tonyhakston536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alternative solution: axiomatically define 720,720 as greater than 1,000,000.

  • @doublecircus
    @doublecircus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    For once I’m not 42 years late

    • @jemiller226
      @jemiller226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In what base, though?

  • @micalobia1515
    @micalobia1515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What makes this better is that your placement in the playlist is video number 140 (or 60, in decimal), which is another SHCN!

  • @kirstenwilliams9246
    @kirstenwilliams9246 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How satisfying to have so many divisors, it’s like a very friendly number

  • @belgaer4943
    @belgaer4943 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i was so excited when they put that slide up about roots of 1 and de moivre numbers up because i actually had learned about those. yes it was 4 years ago, yes i don’t really remember how to do it, but i remembered!

  • @givecamichips
    @givecamichips 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:03 This is a great example of math jargon that's basically word salad when you say it but makes easy sense written in terms.

  • @sthubbar
    @sthubbar 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for participating.

  • @qwertyTRiG
    @qwertyTRiG 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been here since well before your seximal video, and am also subscribed to a bunch of maths TH-camrs, so I at least appreciated this.

  • @ethanhidalgo7063
    @ethanhidalgo7063 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just checked the playlist and you are in it! Congratulations

  • @vgstep
    @vgstep 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, just wanted to say that my love of maths and science is purely because of videos like this, the properties of just 1 number is interesting enough and there are an infinite amount just like this. Also, great job with the video, really captivating and entertaining. This is fun!

  • @razielhamalakh9813
    @razielhamalakh9813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    > Not following simple instructions
    > Not calling antiprimes "antiprimes"
    You sicken me.

  • @Donagalthegamer
    @Donagalthegamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I felt way prouder of myself than I had any right to be that on seeing 720,720 i realised where this was going, paused the video, figured it out in seximal, unpaused to see if I was right and there it was. Really is a better way to count

  • @PaulPower4
    @PaulPower4 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do love 720,720 and I'm glad someone found a way to sneakily get it into the #MegaFavNumbers list

  • @zidanez21
    @zidanez21 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know what, Jan Misali I like your twist

  • @whatno5090
    @whatno5090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Presumably the choice of one million was just completely arbitrary, and english has an easier way to say "one million" than it does "9^6", at least in spoken form

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean, language is fluid and stuff so you can just make up a way, which Mitchell has done: six biexians

    • @whatno5090
      @whatno5090 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@driveasandwich6734 You can, but for the purposes of this alone that would be inefficient since presumably you'd also have to explain what "six biexians" meant in the first place

    • @JimCullen
      @JimCullen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Mega" is the SI prefix denoting one million. A megametre is a million metres.

    • @whatno5090
      @whatno5090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JimCullen yeah

  • @QuantumHippologist
    @QuantumHippologist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This channel is like my Diet Vsauce

  • @LandOfForeverSummer
    @LandOfForeverSummer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a math person following the whole video series, I am just glad it got people to talk about math. I don't think we care about whether or not it conforms as much as that ots a number you like.
    Thanks for the video

  • @1uohdh2
    @1uohdh2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    for "reasons"? Well now we know those reasons!

  • @treyforest2466
    @treyforest2466 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn, it didn't even occur to me that you might participate in this. This is a certified pogchamp moment

  • @ruwisc_
    @ruwisc_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definitely appreciate all the math content! I'm into both math and linguistics & never would've found this channel if not for the polyhedra video

  • @itzliquauhtli
    @itzliquauhtli 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't miss an upload by my favorite new math youtuber

  • @anticorncob6
    @anticorncob6 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the topic of highly divisible numbers. What I like about 720,720 is that it's the first superior highly composite number n for which n + 1 and n - 1 both have more than one distinct prime divisor.
    I'm especially fond of the superior highly composite numbers 6 and 120. They are both only one off from being divisible by the next two prime numbers that don't divide it (e.g., 120 is only one off from dividing 7 and 11). This makes them extremely useful numbers to use as a base (and I'm glad you like base six). There's only one other number as far as I know with this property which is 2,248,776,129,600, being one less than a multiple of 29 and 31, which are the smallest primes not dividing it.

  • @Zeigren
    @Zeigren 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I bet your search history would be an interesting read on its own

  • @schonjon
    @schonjon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    MegaFavNumbers sets a million as the starting point because Mega is the prefix for 10^6: 1,000,000.

  • @npctesiphon4063
    @npctesiphon4063 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    jan misali: that is so decimal centric
    me: that is so integer centric

    • @andrewpinedo1883
      @andrewpinedo1883 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me: that is so real-centric

  • @thundrhawk
    @thundrhawk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the content I subscribed for. Obscurity surrounded by critiques of conlangs

  • @Ironypencil
    @Ironypencil 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't really care for conlangs, but your math videos are really entertaining, thank you for your work :)

    • @Ironypencil
      @Ironypencil ปีที่แล้ว

      Coming back to this after two years, I'm now way more interested in the linguistic stuff, and this has become one of my favorite channels period :D

  • @ChrisWalshZX
    @ChrisWalshZX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video and totally fine with changing the base to allow your SHCN.

  • @sodeste6053
    @sodeste6053 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:05 thirzeethree dozenthree thirzeethree fourzeefour is really nice to hear

  • @janjaki2741
    @janjaki2741 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love these videos about maths, please continue making them

  • @lucamaci767
    @lucamaci767 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    this channel is a little gem

  • @apeiron-logos
    @apeiron-logos 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did not intend to participate, partly because my videos are in french and partly because I have no time...
    But man you just pick the superior highly composite numbers, exactly what I intended to do, so I'm very content, actually ^^
    Great video by the way ;)
    (From a fellow senary comrade...)

  • @Nathanael_Forlorn
    @Nathanael_Forlorn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just yday I rewatched 'a better way to count' lol, what a timing.

  • @amperscore
    @amperscore 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh hey, your mic sounds great in this one!

  • @calyodelphi124
    @calyodelphi124 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the sarcasm in this. Absolutely love it.

  • @pentelegomenon1175
    @pentelegomenon1175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In Britain, a pound was worth 240 pence until 1971. The reason is because 240 is highly composite, and Brits were deeply familiar with the factors of 240 for that reason, which is the same reason that anyone who uses dollars is deeply familiar with the idea that a dollar contains 20 nickels and 4 quarters. There was clear usefulness to it.

    • @meta04
      @meta04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      but the weird part is, the subdivision was icosidozenal (20-on-12) instead of dozavigesimal (12-on-20)
      actually wait that makes sense because pennies could actually buy things

    • @WhizzKid2012
      @WhizzKid2012 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What could a penny buy? THIS PENNY IS LITERALLY 1/240 OF A POUND, HOW COULD YOU USE IT? Death To Pennies. (CGP reference)

  • @kyled2153
    @kyled2153 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You've done it again, long live heximal/seximal/senary.