Illegal Numbers - Numberphile

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[@rruzgarr97]

am I the only one who loves the fact that this guy smiles 24/7

[@spidertron2545]

bingleton 24/7/360/5

[@xavorTM]

bingleton m2, but the closeup are anoying

[@wasiimo]

bingleton eyes are so far apart.

[@wasiimo]

***** lol

[@rruzgarr97]

Gedda207 IKR HAHA

[@brytonite1694]

Number 3 is illegal in Valve

[@samsemp10l23]

lol

[@allenbaranov9357]

+AwesomeGuy2000 +1

[@gghelis]

+cagrie1234 After Valve released "Half-Life 2", fans were eagerly waiting for HL3 for years, but instead they got "HL2 episode 1", then "episode 2", then "episode 3" was announced but never released.

[@GamrGalore3K]

W

[@rustinusti]

Left4Dead 3's coming!!!

[@lucromel]

ℝ I am the greatest criminal mastermind of all time.

[@thestovietunion790]

ℂ Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!

[@aurelia8028]

@@thestovietunion790 Damn. Thats a hard one to beat

[@64_Tesseract]

@@enderstorm16 (-∞, ∞) ∪ (-∞ • i, ∞ • i)

[@ricecake1228]

i

[@ricecake1228]

i+R

[@DrLogii]

"We are going to come to your house and stamp on all of your Toys" Me: Lays out little Lego bricks

[@not2tired]

What if they are wearing boots made of Lego bricks?

[@pseudotaco]

Ah, I see you're a Mann von Kultur as well

[@xexpaguette]

@@pseudotaco *ah yes, enslaved men of culture*

[@IcarusGravitas]

@@not2tired The more you stamp, the taller you get!

[@quandonparleduloup]

@@not2tired hahaha this comment section

[@christophergudgeon9902]

3 people in a prison cell: 1: so what are you in for, 2? 2: armed robbery, you? 1: drug dealing, what about you 3? 3: i posted some numbers on youtube. (1 and 2 hide in corner in fear)

[@sukhuk1486]

😂😂 your comment made my day

[@andish9227]

+Christopher Gudgeon TERRIBLE

[@F2PAlius]

+Christopher Gudgeon A new inmate arrives, 4, 3: hey here is the new guy. (1 & 2 still hiding in fear) 3: what are you in for? 4: loitering. 3: where? 4: on the youtube comment section.

[@kisaragiayami]

+Alius Lightbulb (THE) 5 arrives 1&2 comes out 1&3: Comment section again? What are you in about? 5: Stamping toys 1,2,3,4 hides.

[@drearyplane8259]

+Christopher Gudgeon The best!

[@suddenrushsarge]

What if you treated the illegal number as a solution, and created a problem. So if 144 was an illegal number, would 12x12=? be an illegal question?

[@cassi75474]

Sarge!!! Well, no. 12x12 as a math problem will become illegal, then the number 12 itself.

[@cassi75474]

Laneer Then the number 6, because 6 + 6 = 12.

[@Cheesemongle]

6 x 6 = 36 3 = illegal 4 - 1 = 3 4 = illegal 3 + 4 = 7 7 = illegal 7 x 6 = 42 life = illegal

[@cassi75474]

Laneer DAMMIT!

[@mizeounao]

Laneer yea I think it's about enougth life. Let me check the time, yea it's about that time!

[@archaeologistify]

"I'll have 2 number 9, number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, 2 number 45 and a large soda"

[@timhenning7804]

Udrakan Morturim Big Smoke

[@archaeologistify]

KaBoOm Like you dont say

[@mangoafterdawn]

"...2 number 45, *ONE WITH CHEESE* and a large soda."

[@user-fz6lp3lh2b]

Gta!!

[@berwynsigns4115]

Yes, but what kind of soda?

[@SeriousApache]

"Sir, you can't have this number written on paper" "Fine, I'll just cut it in two pieces and now I have two perfectly legal numbers."

[@stinkymart3173]

Mathematical Tannerite

[@Manabender]

Ah, copyright law...You had good intentions, but then people came around and used you to fuck everything up.

[@Tenzen06]

Manabender not the people, the system :)

[@PortalCaKeDaRoBot]

Gervasoni Quentin The system is the people mate. No one likes a one-upper ;P

[@Tenzen06]

David H.G Nope, very few people make the system, the system makes the people.

[@RedHairdo]

David H.G Absolutely.

[@RedHairdo]

Gervasoni Quentin I don't agree 100%, but there is _some_ truth in that, as well.

[@negativeseven]

94,699,040,255,592,155,765,623,877 in base 94,699,040,255,592,155,765,623,877 is 10. So there's that.

[@strangealiengodofpower7628]

Isn't it 01?

[@Bonniee]

Imagine solving a math problem and then having Numberphile busting down your door 2 seconds later.

[@JackLe1127]

pi contains all rational numbers inside of it. is pi illegal then?

[@Jotakumon]

Almost. The conjecture says that pi contains all finite sequences of digits that one could think of. It's conjecture, not proven. It's not all real numbers either, just any finite sequence of digits, so basically all natural numbers. Because if pi contained all real numbers, it would contain pi itself. So if the x-th digit is the starting point of that second pi that is contained in the first pi, then that second pi, being pi itself, also contains pi at its own x-th digit. Then that would mean that pi has a recurring finite sequence of digits, as the digits 0 to x-1 (the 0-th digit being 3) would repeat itself, and that would mean that pi is rational.

[@ticklesdust]

also interesting implication is to consider the numbers 0-9. In the same way that a very long number may not be included "eventually" (say 8675-309) even a short number could be omitted. for example: replacing all the "3"s in Pi with 1's is still irrational, yet contains no 3's. 1.141.....

[@Benoit-Pierre]

I wanted to phrase it more technically : what about universe numbers ? By definition, all universe numbers contain all patents. So writing down any universe number make you enfreign all possible laws of all countries at the same time ...

[@ralphvercauteren9267]

Does an irrational number contains all numbers and if so, is it illegal when a number contains an illegal number.

[@frijoless22]

Joel Costa I just got logiced

[@Doc_Fartens]

Joke's on you, Doc Grime, my favourite toys are Lego pieces.

[@EggwardPolska]

Ryan He'll just stamp the box :D

[@d400real6]

I thought I was the only one that thought that 😂😂😂

[@stroopwafelfalafel]

The word stamp sounds so funny to me. It's like a word a kitten would say when tackling a box.

[@HavocDemon]

They'll just have to bring in "The Boots".

[@f3ndrw]

+Ryan My favorite toys are computers (*-WHICH I HACK WITH >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D-*)

[@diabolicallink]

"We are going to come into your house and stamp on a of your favorite toys" that's why I like this guy

[@thisisrtsthree9992]

+diabolicallink yeah he seems such a nice guy, but you never know when he is coming to your house with a sharpened axe (to cut some tall grass in your garden).

[@eltimbalino]

It sounds really funny until you remember that that is exactly what they did to Kim Dotcom. Really, they took everything.

[@shaunderoza2321]

To be fair if they didn't take his stuff he probably would have eaten it.

[@samiraperi467]

Technically you can interpret programs as numbers too, and it's possible that pi includes all possible number sequences. Therefore pi is illegal.

[@ivanhorvat4142]

Then everything is illegal.

[@troy0h]

So circles are illegal?

[@MrRacecardude]

sin is illegal

[@SaHaRaSquad]

It isn't proven yet that Pi contains all possible number sequences. But there is an illegal prime number which is also the binary representation of a .zip file containing a DVD cracking software.

[@meneldal]

While Pi is indeed not proven to be a normal number, the nice part is that coding the position in the pi decimals takes on average as much bytes as the string you want to code. That means you'd just invent a new way of storing the same information without changing the entropy.

[@masterflamaster6377]

Yeeey! We've got a Numberphile flag!

[@timothybarker5085]

I will be flying this flag soon.

[@vertikkal3230]

you'll get sued then! :D

[@GermanRumm]

Well, by printing it one implicitly converts it from RGB colorspace into CMYK colorspace. Also, they way color "looks" like depends a lot on the ambient light , so that would be a weird flag indeed. The only unchanging part of it would be the 'extra' bit printed, the name would keep changing with every gust of wind :-)

[@endersteve5839]

Numberphile pride flag

[@sanurajashakya1212]

Thaf looks like a flag of france or russia

[@Nicoder6884]

94,699,040,255,592,155,765,623,877

[@christophergudgeon9902]

(police sirens)

[@wolfizee2363]

+Nicolino Will Well, your google avatar (The rubber duck) Will be stamped.

[@EmilyxxFox]

Drones are locked on your house.

[@colinm.3021]

+Nicolino Will Hide your toys! He'll come and stamp'em!

[@Nicoder6884]

Knoble The Knight They're hidden.

[@kauhanen44]

"42.. Forty two!!"

[@Macsk8ing]

Thoughty2?

[@kauhanen44]

Macsk8ing Yeah.

[@Braincain007]

Number file and Thoughty2 are brothers confirmed*

[@TruKave]

Braincain007 Number file.

[@pbertandjam]

PerunaVallankumous lol

[@gognoggler7326]

4:53 it's the numberphile flag!

[@d.anielb4661]

Thomas Thomas what's the national anthem, numberphile in Morse code?

[@abdulmuhaimin9780]

if the number is illegal and people post it, and then company who owns the number admits it is theirs, doesnt that make it worse?

[@keegster7167]

not if everyone knew it was theirs anyway.

[@Furiends]

Travesty of the property.

[@mgkleym]

No, its only illegal because it is that company's intellectual property and the madness that is ip law.

[@soundpreacher]

The Streisand Effect.

[@laquishaadams1854]

The actual number of a CD key isn't illegal, it's distributing it in the context of "hey, you can use this to steal this program". So I can use the digit 12345, I just can't tell you that you can use it to unlock a pirated game or give you the entire binary code of a program and explain how to make it work or something. That's like saying kilograms are illegal when what I really mean is kilograms of cocaine. Or like saying car keys are illegal, when referring to giving you keys that don't belong to either of us with the intent that you use them to steal someone's car. The idea that we wouldn't be able to use a number on the number line in mathematics or finances because it just so happens to be the numerical key to a program is silly.

[@boshytime1594]

Lol

[@unlimited1652]

So, can you say 18 is barely legal?

[@VellicationOfficial]

FREDERICO CRISÓSTOMO Barreto ayyyyyyy

[@mdhaniff27]

Why

[@goji_crafter]

@@mdhaniff27 consent

[@PhrostiX]

Lol

[@f.b.i3942]

Yes

[@CRT601]

so, pi is illegal, since it might be infinite and if so, it contains all the sequences

[@SaHaRaSquad]

Pi is definitely infinite, but it isn't proven that it contains all the sequences.

[@CRT601]

SaHaRaSquad random numbers + infinity = infinitely many random sequences

[@SaHaRaSquad]

Gentel Noober As I said, it's not been mathematically proven yet.

[@CRT601]

SaHaRaSquad *might*

[@gabtype]

only numbers in pi aren't random

[@particleonazock2246]

2:37 "I'm a mathematician, not a lawyer." Exciting revelations have been revealed.

[@Monkeystaxx]

O M G so does that mean those bars of colour you see when a tv channel isn't working make a code? And then what would that code be?! I love this world

[@BattleslashX]

So if I accidentally come up to of these numbers in math class, I could get arrested. #hardcore 

[@catandfishfc]

And once you tell your teacher about this possibilty, he'll have you calculate the odds of that happening

[@KnakuanaRka]

Only if you knew how to decode the illegal information hidden in the number.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Or otherwise knew how to use that number. Sure, you could come up with the PS3's private key in a calculation, but unless you already knew their private key, you couldn't use the number in malevolent ways, so there is no harm in these numbers popping up in equation, because you couldn't use the information malevolently unless you already knew it.

[@theJERteam]

thug life

[@scottmarshall456]

Jascha Ehrenreich Why did you put hacking in quotation marks? He was hacking into the admin panel, that is hacking. The definition of hacking is to gain access to a computer system without having the authority or permission to do so. He wasn't using his own login details, he was trying to use someone else's information without their consent. Therefore, he hacked into it. That's not sad, it's illegal.

[@skeletar85]

are those rubik's cubes just there to make you look more nerdy?

[@arturmizuno]

its the other way around, james is there to make the rubiks cubes look more nerdy.

[@prateekgurjar1651]

+Artur Mizuno lol

[@prateekgurjar1651]

+Artur Mizuno lol

[@pranavlimaye]

@@prateekgurjar1651 lol

[@pranavlimaye]

@@prateekgurjar1651 lol

[@tomlupien4896]

I almost see the protesters already: *No number is illegal*

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

Numbers are just a number.

[@ribozyme2899]

And what's up with equations whose solution is illegal?

[@yinyang6977]

ILLEGAL EQUATIONS !! ILLEGAL SOLVING TECHNIQUES !! ILLEGAL MATHEMATICAL MODELS !! ILLEGAL THOUGHT PROCESSES !! THOUGHTCRIME !!

[@512TheWolf512]

Science is awesome! While studying sucks

[@OfficialSkyH1gh]

Sadstorm ;(

[@OfficialSkyH1gh]

hahaha just likes comming in lol

[@512TheWolf512]

***** because it's so true, that nothing else can be said

[@512TheWolf512]

***** i know first-hand, how science made and how much effort it takes, but i also know how cool the end results may be i have my reasons to say what i say, believe me, i am not basing my comments solely off what i see on the internet

[@512TheWolf512]

***** it was just a generalisation of what's happening

[@vernanonix]

I think the real issue is when the number is directly linked to a specific context. Like, if I randomly type a string of numbers into a post that just so happened to coincide with an encryption key, then the post itself should be innocent. But if I knowingly link it to the context of being an encryption key, I think that's the real issue.

[@LeafShade]

Problem is, you could also encode the context as a number as well, technically you have not provided context, just two (or one if you join them) numbers.

[@jamalsachleben3026]

I'd argue that if you encoded the context as a number, unless you provided context for that number too, it would be perfectly legal. Also +xplus93 on your question lets make an example. If I wrote a number and then truthfully said that it was used by some company to encrypt their data that would be illegal. But what the OP is arguing is that if I just posted the number without linking it to its usage it would be perfectly legal.

[@snbeast9545]

There's a program where all it did was spit out the DSi common key. The belief was that, since it generated a number that only happened to be the same as the key, it'd be legal. But it was still DMCA'd by Nintendo.

[@spiderwings1421]

@@LeafShade 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 20-8-5 12-9-14-5 2-5-6-15-18-5 20-8-9-19 19-5-14-20-5-14-3-5 9-19 1 4-5-3-18-25-16-20-9-15-14 15-6 1 2-12-21 18-1-25 4-9-19-11 15-18 8-4 4-22-4

[@LeafShade]

Thanks, now I can watch Pirates of the Caribbean.

[@totalsyambles8308]

Ha! My favourite toy is LEGO...

[@markonikolic1386]

lol

[@markonikolic1386]

CLOUD I could've written enything. Do you have a problem with that?

[@Jourei_]

Hoooly shit those eyes are frightening...

[@TheGuilleSuit]

2:33 "Don't let me catch you doing that" his voice jokes but his eyes scream murder...

[@MikolajPisarski]

This is one of the most brilliant arguments against so-called intellectual property! Wonderful.

[@word6344]

piracy

[@joshi5507]

I love his passion it is so infectious

[@aaronbolton2142]

He stamped on all my favourite toys Save your toys before it's too late

[@legendgames128]

Lay out little lego bricks to make them take forever to stamp them all

[@JohnSmith-fe7cc]

writes*94,699,040,225,592,155,765,623,877 Meanwhile police come

[@raghavnandyal1518]

opening a random numberphile video and finding Dr. James Grime is simply satisfying af

[@QuantumBraced]

Intel came up with "Pentium" because they couldn't trademark "586" haha

[@groszak1]

So they trademarked "22629523210728813"!

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

But they still trademarked the 8088, 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486 before that decision was made. Are those numbers illegal, then? Or the processors from other companies? Is the number 6502 illegal? 68000? And what about the popular abbreviations: 286, 386, and 486?

[@RobBCactive]

@@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352 no, but if you advertised a CPU product called 80386 then Intel could claim infingement of tm.

[@hetakusoda2977]

What a nice way to encrypt a message.

[@ZonkoKongo]

Serios?

[@ZonkoKongo]

Serios?

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

Take the end result colour codes and then run it through the Enigma Machine. :0

[@bethysboutique]

+Ed Moritz brilliant, Benedict Cumberbatch! ERhh, I mean Alan Turing.

[@Furiends]

Technically that is not encryption but obfuscation.

[@DudeNumberOnePlus]

How about 94,699,040,255,592,155,765,623,876+1 ?

[@diedewip7912]

5:02 thanks for the new background!

[@jannickharambe8550]

I said it before and I'll say it again. I love this guy. I love Dr. James Grime. HE MAKES MATH AMAZING

[@DC_Prox]

4:27 I also can't help sounding a little delighted when the number "42" comes up

[@vlasktom]

94,699,040,255,592,155,765,623,877. A big ass number

[@technotv6561]

you just waved a baby in front of a tiger by asking us not to distribute those numbers

[@lvalentino6325]

I absolutely love his videos.

[@AeroAstroid]

#Make404Illegal

[@jargonstarcraft9157]

I've always been fascinated by people's abilities to convert from binary to decimal to hexadecimal so quickly, like he does in the video.

[@Treyzania]

Separate it into the first four and the second four. Then it's rather straightforward to figure out. 0000 = 0 = 0 0001 = 1 = 1 0010 = 2 = 2 0011 = 3 = 3 0100 = 4 = 4 0101 = 5 = 5 0110 = 6 = 6 0111 = 7 = 7 1000 = 8 = 8 1001 = 9 = 9 1010 = 10 = A 1011 = 11 = B 1100 = 12 = C 1101 = 13 = D 1110 = 14 = E 1111 = 15 = F

[@jacobpaniagua8785]

It is cut. He didn't do that that fast as far as I know.

[@kanayamaryam5088]

It's like memorizing factors in the 10X10 set of numbers. If you write it out, and then practice it, you can memorize and recite Binary/hexadecimal numbers really quickly. 1 = 1 10 = 2 100 = 4 1000 = 8 each additional 0 you add to the string is 2^(n+1) 10000 = 2^4 = 16

[@Ban_Usury_Worldwide]

Jacob Paniagua He even says he worked it out already right before he writes it down.

[@minidrapes3713]

Alex Lake where do you get (n+1) from?

[@echoedinnocence]

>.< dont stomp on my toys!!

[@OrangeC7]

Oh no! My special woody action focus fighting Darth Vader setup! :o I won't infringe your rights! XD

[@masterflamaster6377]

Oh no! my LEGO!

[@uuu12343]

MasterFlamaster Ouch

[@RobertGarcia-gy6lj]

Кирилл Давыдов

[@Spottedleaf-yf4lk]

What’s with the jimmy Savile glasses

[@osmacar5331]

"Stomp on your toys" I ain payin' the hospital bill

[@adkadatka244]

What if the flags of the countries actually represent hexadecimals and if we break it down we will get the secret message behind it? O.o

[@ProtMan96]

+adka datka murica flags means illuminati

[@slammy333]

+adka datka that just blew my mind

[@slammy333]

+adka datka that just blew my mind

[@tfos993]

+ThisIsRTSThree999 Holy assception.

[@thisisrtsthree9992]

Bung The Booce agreed :)

[@bxyify]

Aaand, you could transfer the number to a sequence of gene, and if someone happens to have that gene by accident, his genes would be illegal and he would be illegal when copying his genes (vulgar: makes babies)... Also, you could XOR this number with a random number and get a third number and this other number would become illegal too (and the one who happens to have this genes again). go figure! :D

[@TheRealMeatwad]

NUMBERPHILE has only 3 prime factors: 5,237; 27,928,513; and 647,463,350,840,017 Math credit goes to Wolfram Alpha. I used their service to determine the prime factorization.

[@THAdeeHARMONY]

I like that Dr Grimes says “problem” like “pwobwem” and that he’s a mathematician and thus has to say “problem” in almost every video.

[@RobBCactive]

No he doesn't! It's your English listening skills, perhaps you are unfamiliar with English English which doesn't use a North American "r". He is rushing the word but it's pronounced standardly.

[@serenalaurence1492]

@@RobBCactiveliterally says pwobwem

[@RobBCactive]

@@serenalaurence1492 No, he didn't. You're just not discriminating the /ɹ/ from /w/

[@serenalaurence1492]

@@RobBCactive pwobwem

[@MegaMementoMori]

69 is illegal in some situations :p

[@spartanmomomd]

this comment is so wierd! on my phone it says ten replies... I click on all replies and then it says two replies, but there aren't any replies!!!

[@MegaMementoMori]

The comments are a lie.

[@twinkiesmaster69]

MegaMementoMori hi

[@oskarj6311]

MegaMementoMori but..... the summer of 69.......

[@BradyPostma]

Back before the Intel Pentium processor, Intel used to number their chips: 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486. Another company (I forget whether it was AMD or Cyrix) began to produce cheaper chips named via the same numbers, and Intel sued them for copyright infringement. The courts ruled that you cannot trademark a number, at least not in the United States. So there is some precedent that says numbers can't be treated as anyone's property. Thereafter, Intel started giving their chips names, initially Pentium, to get around that trademark flaw.

[@xcvsdxvsx]

Great job demonstrating the absurdity of intellectual property. Bravo.

[@michaelnelson1270]

The reason the Intel Pentium chip (the successor to 286, 386 and 486) was so named was because of court rulings that a number (586) could not be copyrighted or trademarked as Intel couldn't sue AMD for marketing their own 586 chip. AMD can still do that, they just can call it a Pentium (TM)

[@kalechips4564]

Numberphile predicted the fine bros in 2013

[@arturmizuno]

+Kyle Eldridge yeah, maths!

[@SezzesStuff]

What does this have to do with that though?

[@efkanematnals736]

Not relevant

[@epicstimulus282]

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

[@mbedj1974]

they also predicted article 13

[@you8sand]

Wouldn't that then make pi the most illegal number? I'm sure somewhere in the binary version of pi you can find, continuously the binary digits required to construct any program every created and ever will be created. (assuming pi is indeed infinite and random)

[@matthewludivico1714]

Binary digit files are interpreted in a specific context, so they aren't actually one long number in the counting sense. Some of the digits are array data, boolean flags, etc.. that just happen to be concated into a string.

[@yannhugo6258]

Loved the video!

[@alipakzad2005]

Thank you for your beautiful videos.I am computer science student in University of Leeds and also interested in mathematics.While I seeing your videos on KZbin I found mathematics problems really enjoyable and delightful and my vision towards science and mathematics changes,

[@tbrickman]

Love this. Law and Math, my two favorite things, combined!

[@kol2456]

You could also fill the last two numbers with F's or 0's for a 4th color that doesn't corrupt the data if you know to ignore the trailing 0's

[@sarysa]

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is what he's talking about. (AACS encryption key) But that's so 2007.

[@roker836]

94,699,040,255,592,155,765,623,876 sue me

[@TheAstronomicals]

Your profile pic says it all.

[@mateface1313]

we cant sue you, you are perfectly fine, the number is legal, the number after it is not.

[@socercrze]

Thank you so much for making these videos. They are a great explanation of numbers and math. I really have learned so much from these. Thank you again.

[@barbarossa11]

This actually becomes really interesting when you think of all the NFT hype that is happening at the moment

[@RoanCritter]

Hey! That means Numberphile has a "National" Flag!

[@user-sd7hh8ek1c]

You actually are able to avoid the illegalness of the number. Just write its opposite. -94 -699 -040 -255 -592 -155 -765 -623 -877 For example, Signed Integer data type writes -040 as 2 147 483 687, and this doesn't match the letter M.

[@groszak1]

that isn't how decimal works uh

[@buca9696]

People trying to trademark common words and numbers are the worst scum of the planet.

[@celestialtree8602]

42. I didn't break any laws! That's the internet's number now...

[@notanonymous3976]

this channel makes me feel clever :)

[@leo221198]

But the "number" of the Mona Lisa is affected by resolution, quality and format of the image, or not?

[@yvesisnotaname2813]

leo221198 This is a late reaction but that data is stored in the binary data usually at the end or the beginning

[@Lioobayoyo]

you are completely right. The bits would be those of a "particular digtalization" of the Mona Lisa.

[@jackwilliams7193]

indeed, '1' is the mona lisa, boiled down to a single digit.

[@VeritasEtAequitas]

@@Lioobayoyo But then derivative works of art (ex: Warhol's soup can) are protected, this a particular digitalization of a painting is a protected derivatibe work of art!

[@onradioactivewaves]

@@jackwilliams7193 you sure about that? It could be 0....

[@13HEADSHOT]

0100 is 8 btw

[@ketheranechromate7479]

Getting this recommended 8 years later is a completely different feeling with NFTs being all that jazz now

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

Reminds me of 'Paper Towns' (after which the John Green novel is named), originally-fake place-names map makers would write on random points marking blank space on their maps, in order to "prove" their work had been stolen by map-makers who use the same names to mark those non-existent places.

[@oz_jones]

Dictionaries have fake words, for the same reason.

[@blackboxdisease]

the legality is determined by how stupid society and those who hold positions that influence the law, are. For example, someone may copywrite a digital work of art, but have it displayed on their website, but now it makes it illegal for anyone to visit their website since loading the page, loads a copy (cached) of that image on the hard drive and in memory as well. However it seems to be acceptable for this to occur and allowable. Another perspective would be to say that by the person displaying the work on the website, they are in fact distributing their own work, so the visitors are not making copies, it is inherently the design of the internet that allows that website to push it's content onto the visitors computer. The same goes with anything digital. Unless it's a misconception, this is the reason why downloading anything on the internet in Canada is NOT illegal, but it is illegal to make available content which is. So going to a website to download copywrite albums is not illegal, but BEING that website is because it is making available that content without permission. Numbers are NOT illegal as laymen say, it is what the intention and the action to which they are used. If someone trademarks a name, they are only trademarking the name, not each individual letter, and not a conversion. If you want to trademark a name in HEX, then you would have to do so separately. If you wanted to trademark your name in different languages, you again, would have to do so separately. Encryption keys are NOT illegal which is why people and corporations try their best to keep them secret. What is illegal is obtaining the information they protect without consent. If you wanted associate the notes of a song with lights and colors, you can do so, because it is no longer a song or a piece of music which resembles the original intention of the creator. It is only converting back those patterns and lights into a format similar to the first, that would make it illegal. This same principle would be applicable to any and all combinations. So when you have something illegal converted to a different format, it can not longer be converted back to resemble the original piece. These basic understandings seem to baffle a great majority of people. If you have a dumb panel of judges, you will get dumb rulings. Dumb law makers, dumb laws.

[@you_just]

So irrational numbers are illegal?

[@thefran901]

Only if you write and distribute the entire sequence.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

No, only if you are rational.

[@fishyfishking7906]

5:15 My favourite toys are my rusty nails that are sticking upright.

[@neth77]

10 years later watching people be concerned about DVD piracy with Piratebay open on another tab!

[@Replay260]

I love your videos guys. Thanks for teaching me about stuff i would never think of myself. :)

[@DamianoPetrucci]

This guy is good at explaining things

[@loupole5654]

Consider, the digits of pi contain every winning sequence of lottery numbers in order. . .somewhere.

[@legendgames128]

You can't stomp on my toys, I CAN DO ANYTHING! *turns the outer part of my house into a massive carousel where it goes super fast and the floor doesn't move along with the carousel*

[@PacoTrials]

I seriously do not understand how the many faces this guy shows in his videos haven't become a meme yet. Outstanding.

[@jackhooper2839]

But so many things in nature would coincidentally have the same numerical value as illegal numbers. What if the french flag's colours corresponded to an illegal number? Should France be banned?

[@ananas22anne]

first thing that came to my mind were illegal numbers in germany. like (depending on the federal state) you can't get something with "18" as a license plate, because it refers to a(=1)dolf h(=8)itler.

[@hlboerr]

Great explanation

[@MilanTheAngel]

Full Mona Lisa binary number: 110001101101011011001010111110 And continues for about 5-6 million digits.

[@marcoantoniosantiagotoledo9506]

110001101101011011001010111110

[@DonnyJS]

So pretty much, nearly every color is illegal to distribute? o_O

[@nathanokun8801]

ASCII is >SEVEN< BIT. The expansions using eight and larger bits are not ASCII, but contain ASCII as a part of them.

[@cigmorfil4101]

You cannot trademark a number as Intel found with the 586 processor - that is why it was called the Pentium.

[@tactcom7]

Not true. Pegeuot had trademarked cars with an 0 in the middle of them. So you can't have a BMW 309 or whatever.

[@AndrijaTosicArts]

i can say it's not a number it's a nmba

[@Logan-fb6no]

illegal noombas (:

[@viniciusvideobox]

"i'm gonna stomp on your toys" just let me lay my Lego bricks for you

[@blastuna_fe5718]

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