Planet Pi - Numberphile

[@numberphile]

See Matt's video at Stand-up Maths: kzbin.info/www/bejne/faqxk3-qnqaaoJY Brady's astronomy channel Deep Sky Videos: kzbin.info

[@thethirdjegs]

asteroid 628318 should be named stevemould

[@PplsChampion]

asteroid 12345 should obviously be named 'password'

[@numberphile]

Nice

[@TangoWolf09]

"That's the same as what I have on my luggage!"

[@Jupiterninja95]

@@TangoWolf09beat me to it

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

@@TangoWolf09 Thus it should be called "Spaceball"

[@ahvavee]

@@TangoWolf09remind me to change my password.

[@CatherineKimport]

The year: 2718 Prospector: "scans are in from 314159 Mattparker." Mission control: "What are the results?" Prospector: "Mostly just rock. We didn't find anything. No water ice, metals are too scarce to bother with a mining operation." Mission control: "Well, we gave it a go. That's the important part."

[@Deniis]

The y(e)ar

[@diney7085]

real parker asteroid

[@somedudeok1451]

I predict that before that year some nerd will have launched a kickstarter project to send a robot to Mattparker and etch a Parker Square into its surface.

[@KazimirQ7G]

Prospector: "I've detected an issue. The asteroid rotated almost synchronously to my ship and I've scanned only one side. Should I probe Mattparker's backside?" Mission Control: Affirmative. Try going as deep as you can.

[@livedandletdie]

Someone tell Elon we need a manned mission to Mattparker to etch a Parker Square into it.

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

Matt telegraphing the hell out of the reveal and then Brady putting down the camera and walking off was delicious.

[@Neefew]

Coincidentally, 314159 is also a prime number, giving Matt a doubly interesting asteroid number

[@gavinjared1135]

Asteroid 12345 isn't named, but there are the names 13579 Allodd and 24680 Alleven. :)

[@sahasananth987]

Someone said it 12345 should be called password 😂

[@SlyPearTree]

@@sahasananth987 I was searching the commend to see if someone suggested a Spaceball related name for it, I think Melbrooks would be fitting. If he already has something astronomical named after him then Spaceball as an asteroid is kind of a space ball.

[@sahasananth987]

@@gavinjared1135 there is also a math operator !! Called double factorial for ex 8!! = 8*6*4*2 and 11!! = 9*7*5*3 basically it depends on parity and we can name it after the guy who created the operator

[@sahasananth987]

@@SlyPearTree what’s spaceball??

[@SlyPearTree]

@@sahasananth987 A classic Mel Brooks movie, in it two things have 12345 as passwords.

[@jeffreybailey95]

Can't wait for the Tau asteroid to be named Steve Mould

[@LewisLoree]

that absolutely has to happen

[@GoofyGangster-official]

LOL so true

[@charliesteiner2334]

Vi Hart for the ogs.

[@TrainOfImagination]

​@@charliesteiner2334VI HART

[@louisreinitz5642]

628318 is not claimed !!!

[@gavinjared1135]

Considering the recent discovery, I was really hoping you would mention the asteroid 8191 Mersenne. :) (Because 8191 = 2^13 - 1 is a Mersenne prime.)

[@powertomato]

That's a nice one!

[@Pablo360able]

The odds of all life on the planet being wiped out by Matt Parker are slim, but never zero.

[@ocupel995]

Hahahahhahaha

[@lvangirardi]

😂 It's very cute of Matt that he didn't tell Brady beforehand. Congratulations 🎉Matt ☄️

[@jhhayden]

this is the first Numberphile video I have ever seen without brown paper!!

[@Qermaq]

They are rare. Maybe you get to name it now?

[@mebamme]

There are far more asteroids waiting to be named than names waiting to be asteroided.

[@adityakhanna113]

Absolute gold

[@rmsgrey]

Some quick googling finds someone else's analysis 2014 of US death records for the previous 70 years, where approaching 90 million people have over 30 million unique names listed. The same analyst also looked at an October 2010 list of 170 million Facebook names, which had 100 million different names. As of May 2022, there were roughly 1.1 million asteroids either numbered or awaiting numbering. So in terms of asteroids that have been discovered and are in the pipeline to be named, there are many more names available than asteroids in the queue. On the other hand, since anything smaller than Ceres down to rocks about a meter in diameter which orbits within the inner solar system qualifies as an asteroid (and some definitions include some objects in the outer solar system, like the trojans), it seems likely that there are more asteroids than recognised names. On the gripping hand, even just allowing two English words from a basic vocabulary of 20,000 (estimates put a typical vocabulary somewhere in the 15k-50k range) that would be 400 million possible names; taking the "correct horse battery staple" approach using four common words from a 2,000 word vocabulary gives 16 trillion possible names (enough to name every star in thirty galaxies the size of the Milky Way with some left over); 160 quadrillion if you start from a 20k vocabulary. With five words from a 30k vocabulary, you could name every individual grain of sand on Earth. If we really wanted to name every single asteroid, we'd run out of space rocks before running out of character strings...

[@Mayaaahhhh]

​@@rmsgreyI appreciate the unnecessary effort put into this. Perhaps you should get an asteroid too

[@etinosnam]

So how do we get 628318 called stevemould?

[@rainerzufall42]

Wikipedia: "On 15 August 2024, the main-belt asteroid 314159 Mattparker[a] was named in his honour. The citation highlights Parker's biennial "Pi Day challenges", stating that they have helped to popularise mathematics.[40][41]"

[@aikumaDK]

Biennial means twice a year. Didn't know he did it twice per year..

[@thetomasklos]

​@@aikumaDK "Biennial" means every two years. "Biannual" is the word for twice a year.

[@stevesmith2044]

Annual

[@michaeldunkerton3805]

Immensely disappointed that it's not 314158, or better yet 233747 after our favorite set of squares that don't add up to 3,051

[@steve470]

314159 is already off from pi by 5 orders of magnitude - that's probably far enough off for Matt.

[@not_David]

a huge congratulations to Matt, but also consider this my official petition to the IAU to name Astroid BradyNumberHere after Brady Haran.

[@hedger0w]

14:44 Let's just hope that the Parker Asteroid calculation doesn't end up being the Parker Square calculation.

[@johnboyer144]

I was SO MAD when i found out Matt Parker took 314159 for himself. That one should have been simply named Pi, and he should take 314158 for himself. It is appropriately close, but not quite there. THE AUDACITY

[@adityakhanna113]

Funny xD but also someone else did it. We need to be mad at em xD

[@miorioff]

314158 can still be "Parker's PI"

[@johnboyer144]

@@adityakhanna113 Get the pitchforks!

[@AkiSan0]

dont tell me your grandfather is named jerome....

[@soyoltoi]

I don't think he had a say

[@michaelbiljon8249]

I'm so happy for you, Matt Parker. You've earned it dude.

[@rosiefay7283]

1:38 How appropriate that asteroid Fibonacci was numbered F_20.

[@rmsgrey]

Sadly, Euler is 2002

[@SimonCoates]

The minor planet Tau is twice as big as Matt's minor planet.

[@donniedamato]

Yes we see the vector game Asteroid easter egg, nice touch.

[@brenorocha6687]

"Where do Matt get these crazy ideas for videos?" 7:40 Matt, you're ridiculous! And we are all here for it! Congratulations!!

[@KSignalEingang]

First off, congratulations Matt, what an incredible honor, and well deserved. However I gotta say it would have been a more fitting tribute, or at least funnier, if they'd gone with, say, asteroid 314157.

[@robertscott9366]

I'm unreasonable happy for you Matt! 🎉🎉🎉 You deserve it!

[@craigfjay]

I think we need to do more research into whether MattParker is a threat to life on Earth

[@craigfjay]

14:00 Rookie error- I should've finished watching the video before commenting

[@alihms]

It is a non-zero probability! So, we gotta be careful with mattparker.

[@Raggaliamous]

a-parker--lypse?

[@thomasdequincey5811]

I don't know why I wasn't expecting the payoff at 7:42, but I wasn't and it was glorious.

[@jonathanl8538]

Yes. The video had been quite ubderwhelming up to this point. Then it swept you of your feet :)

[@S1D1T1]

great reveal. I actually did not see that coming. I legit just teared up.

[@jackeea_]

I'm glad that at 9:50 you clarified that the picture is not to scale, and that there isn't a gigantic orbiting Matt Parker head constantly in the skies

[@lars3509]

Is the single pixel we see of Mattparker the real parker square?

[@kerrynewman1221]

Congratulations Matt. I had some great news this week as well, a newborn granddaughter.

[@briandeschene8424]

Named Matt Parker?!!!

[@Mayaaahhhh]

Congratulations!

[@pmmeurcatpics]

Yoo congratulations!

[@bergerniklas6647]

I mean the e numbers should be named Euler, so Euler 1, Euler 2, Euler 3, Euler 4, Euler 5

[@BOBimusRex]

I'd like to request a video topic. I have a pet peeve in regards to people referring to a product as having however many times less than another. Example: saying "a 4$ hamburger costs 2x less than an 8$ hamburger." Or saying "with THIS dish soap, you can wash a whole load of dishes using 2x less soap." Or even (although its slightly more pedantic) "its twice as cold in this room than that one." A 4$ hamburger IS NOT 2x cheaper than an 8$ hamburger. Its 0.5x cheaper. This soap doesn't use 2x less, it uses 0.5x less. And its not twice as cold, because cold can't be quantified- only heat can. So its not twice as cold in here, it twice as warm in there, or half as warm in here- which would be 0.5x less warm, not 2x less warm. Does this irritate anyone else, or am I the jerk for expecting people to form proper "word problems" in their day to day speach??? Two times less of ANYTHING puts you in the negative.

[@RecycledBikes-jj]

A Parker Planet? Ehat could possibly... Seriously, a brilliancy!!

[@reidhamilton68]

“Planet Matt Parker” is some ninth level (okay, pi level) geekery. Congratulations!

[@tamarkan]

314158 should be named Parker Square :)

[@nickybeingnicky]

Im happy for you Matt

[@levishadow]

Been spoiled by a problem squared came here exactly knowing who would talking in this one... Still can appreciate the build up :D

[@YourWealthCome]

//Contains spoilers During the first 5 min. of the video. I was thinking to my self... Wouldn't it be amazing if Matt got an Asteroid named after himself? After I realized Matt wasn't joking about 314159 my eyes filled with happy tears. (Wich was great because I have dry eyes.) Could this have been more perfect?! Congratz!

[@coreyburton8]

i am so happy that you have a Pi Asteroid named after you Matt

[@sokrar]

i saw the parker square. He deserves this!

[@SanneBerkhuizen]

Amazing! Congratulations

[@spud0124]

Congratulations, Matt!

[@yoram_snir]

Congrats Matt

[@kartoffelmozart]

Congrats on the planet, Matt! :0

[@Vares65]

Ok, I was not expecting that! Congrats!

[@jacksonstarky8288]

Asteroid 271828 should be Euler. The IAU really needs to get on fixing that. Alternatively, Asteroid 57721 (gamma) could be Euler... or Mascheroni, if the previous asteroid is named Euler. Not sure if the latter number is unnamed, though.

[@JimMcTavish]

Euler (Work Number) : )

[@MaGaO]

12345 should be named Druidia, of course.

[@carltonleboss]

Or MelBrooksLuggage

[@TomLeg]

Clearly it should be named "password"

[@petergerdes1094]

Looked up the rules and there was nothing against using concepts. Mostly it just demanded you don't pick controversial figures in various ways and no self-naming. Pets are discouraged. Everything else was about the characters length etc. and how to explain it.

[@Alan_Clark]

Actually there is one asteroid that is named after a pet: 2309 Mr. Spock is named after the feline companion of astronomer James Gibson. The cat was so called because he was"imperturbable, logical, intelligent, and had pointed ears".

[@thetinkerist]

MattParker is a gold nugget in the skies, even if it isn't!!

[@johnkonrath1115]

Love how they snuck the 80s computer game Asteroids in the video spread.

[@funtastic1297]

Woah, do7ble upload Matt parker on his asteroid an numberphile and stand up maths, noice

[@PopeLando]

James Grime recently referred to himself humourously as "ITMA - It's That Man Again" ... and that was the catchphrase and the name of the radio show of none other than 2718 Tommy Handley.

[@ryancummings1778]

What an amazing honor, congratulations!

[@celadon2048]

I'm pumped for you, bro. 🎉

[@MrOreo76]

This is great congratulations to Matt

[@vacuumtubesinc4828]

I think you missed the word play on 2718... It is Handl - E

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

Well done.

[@RFC3514]

12:15 - Well, *314159 is both pi-like **_and_** a prime* (did you really not notice that, or just forgot to mention it?). After that, you'd have to wait for asteroid no. 314151926535897932384626433832795028841.

[@rickseiden1]

I saw the thumbnail for Matt's video in my feed before this video. The whole time I'm watching this, right up to 7:40, I'm thinking that this whole thing is a scripted routine building up to Mattparker. 🤣 I also just realized how funny it would have been if they had named 314159 after Steve Mould instead. Name the pi minor planet after the man how loves tau.

[@catherinebaldwin6580]

11111 Repunit. That made me smile.

[@mathmaximum1647]

12:16 luckily 314159 is also prime

[@evanbasnaw]

Asteroid 1729 had better be named Ramanujan

[@glarynth]

Missed opportunity, but it's named for Beryl Potter, who helped to discover some of the earlier ones.

[@JGreenDragon]

The absolute best lede-burying I’ve ever encountered

[@MCLegoboy]

Of course now this means we need to find asteroids for all the other Numberphile alumni as well as the other Brady educational video universe, too.

[@JimMcTavish]

This is amazing! Well done sir : )

[@NarwhalRoger]

Can’t wait for this asteroid to be added to the Numberphile museum

[@nejnovejsi]

Oh my god! This is so wholesome. Congrats :)

[@CatzHoek]

That's seriously cool

[@gabrielleyba2842]

lovable egomaniac - well deserved :D

[@tserrofz9]

2 questions - Did brady know before hand? 2) did any other mathemeticians actually have math interesting asteroids?

[@abdurz3016]

So well deserved!

[@numeritos1799]

Omg!! It's Matt!!

[@christopherwotta6632]

If 314159 is Mattparker, then surely 986960 ought to be Parkersquare(d)

[@red.aries1444]

So "MattParker" now does not only travel on earth to make videos about mathemathics, he literally travels through space... Is there any chance that this "MattParker" will bump into another object like himself in the near future? How about Brady? He could be honored for his achievements in making science popular on the internet. Using a numer in Australian date format would be easy to remember... and the astoroid number 180676 is still unnamed. 🙂

[@empmachine]

Watch the asteroid....somehow... ALSO look just like π .. i dunno, some kinda lucky hit from a denser something or other.. Congrats Matt Parker!!

[@g22l87]

now you're the 2nd youtuber with a asteroid named after you that I know

[@briandeschene8424]

Scott Manley, correct?

[@arbodox]

You should add Carykh (10003) and Dr. Becky (35419) in that list too ;)

[@morismateljan6458]

and Sabine Hossenfelder. (16648)

[@g22l87]

(31453) Arnaudthiry, named after a french astronomy youtuber.

[@pompeymonkey3271]

Delightful!

[@jakethomas6123]

Sending a self-replicating probe to the asteroid belt might be the best bet for getting Matt Parker investigated.

[@GroovingPict]

Makes perfect sense to me: what science/educational youtuber has had more to do with Pi than Matt?

[@iseriver3982]

'it has to be named after a person' The very next named asteroid they find is named after a plant 😂

[@Hambonillo]

I can't wait for the next digit

[@HappyMathDad]

One day, most of humanity may crease to exist. Thanks to Matt Parker!!!!

[@allanolley4874]

I was thinking more minor planets have been discovered since 2000 than were discovered in the 200 years of discovering asteroids before that. Looking at those numbers (the number gives roughly the order in which it is discovered, 1 is the first asteroid discovered 314159 is the 314159th discovered etc. ) there were clearly like 10 times more asteroids discovered between 2000-2005 then all those discovered by 2000. I imagine since 2005 we've probably overshot those numbers though maybe not by as much (I mean maybe we've now discovered 10 000 more in the time (so like 3 billion) who knows, but I feel like the exponential growth in discovery slowed).

[@oberonpanopticon]

No way I’ve been working on a worldbuilding project for about a year centred around a planet named Pi!

[@marianaldenhoevel7240]

"..with a mathematically interesting number". Famously they all are. Proof by contradiction: If boring natural numbers exist, there must be a smallest boring number n. That property would make n interesting. Thus the set of boring numbers is empty.

[@kidmohair8151]

09:54 reminiscent of Holly… hey, wait a sec….how about…nah. they’d never go for it.

[@BenFromOhio]

Can Mattparker provide any benefit to life on earth? Will an extensive probe of Mattparker's grey matter reveal anything of use? Is it worth it to delve into that place of darkness to exploit Mattparker's resources? Time will tell.

[@pamdrayer5648]

12:17 314159 is prime. That's nice.

[@ixwix]

Beautiful

[@elliottgussow9555]

If Mattparker turns out to be a valuable source of minerals, it could potentially be mined to oblivion!

[@thebrookshome]

14:45 I think you mean, "the odds of the Earth being mattparkered are pretty slim," now that "mattparkering" is the word for when an asteroid slams into the Earth and destroys all life. So there's a t-shirt

[@panwasap7]

Does it have a comically large pyramid, perchance?

[@FrankenSteinsGate]

Now I want Matt to get another minor planet named after him that's a square number, so we can have Minor Planet Parkersquare.

[@PegasusEpsilon]

314,159 is also prime. For the record. What about the properly rounded five digit pi, 31,416? Or the properly rounded four digit, 3,142? Second channel content, maybe.

[@heaslyben]

Do you think at any point the nominating folks considered an off-by-one like 314158 or 314160?

[@FathomGoat]

Much better than keeping rocks in your head, although now I think about it...

[@myersred8]

That is great! You deserve it.

[@CorwynGC]

Would love a video of that clock.

[@marcelvanderheijden8042]

They gave Fibonacci a number of the fibonacci sequence ;)

[@DanielHarveyDyer]

I was wondering that so thanks for looking it up for me.