The Epic Simpsons Maths Joke (That Broke The Internet)

[@Sirenhound]

There was another one in the Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer was in th 3rd Dimension. 1782¹² + 1841¹² = 1922¹²

[@abirneji]

@ what?

abirneji search it up.

[@witchBoi_Connor]

abirneji tentacle porn

[@Alexander-vm2ox]

@ what is it, ill look it up if that rule is the one that anything can be porn

[@hellsingscult6929]

@ when in Rome, It don't matter if it got hair on them as long as the titties are humongous and the tentacles extra rapie 👾👾👾👾

[@Lindsek]

“For those with an interest in mathematics...” Well, no, not at all, but I’ll stick around for that Full Fat goodness anyway :)

[@sonicmaths8285]

What the hell could be better than maths? And no, the answer is not everything, because everything is maths so this answer doesn’t count and would mean that maths would automatically be better than everything which wouldn’t make sense, because maths is everything, thus leading to the only logical conclusion that maths is the best thing. Quad erat demonstrandum.

[@tim..indeed]

4:43 "The Simpsons is filled with complex gags" - shows one of the oldest and simplest jokes, someone stepping on a rake, in the background.

[@Reubenn]

I need some feedback on my new song on my channel

[@shareemibitsfala5534]

Lil Fresh I haven’t looked but I’m sure it’s fucking shit. How is working at MacDonald’s

[@befer]

@@Reubenn get the fuck out

[@dylanellis4320]

I've literally always hated this bit even if it's ironic it still makes me cringe so hard everytime I see it there's an episode (I think where Bob works with his brother Cecil on a Dam) where there's a solid thirty seconds of it and every cell in my body cringed

[@andrewkos5560]

My favorite part of that gag is that they literally just threw it in because they had a spare 20-ish seconds that needed filling. Cape Feare is literally the moment where the og writing staff just did whatever the hell they wanted since it was their last episode.

[@taflo1981]

I like the joke in the last line even more: If you bite off a large enough chunk of a ring-shaped doughnut, it becomes ball-shaped. A topology joke about torus and sphere.

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

This reminds me that I have math homework to do. Thanks.

[@Nnnnnnnnnn670]

SHIT ... shit shit shit shit shit Shit SHIT ITS 12

[@Nnnnnnnnnn670]

I'll do it tomorrow eh

[@samuelhaley6114]

@@Nnnnnnnnnn670 how are you doing now?

[@Nnnnnnnnnn670]

Just left school I finished the assignment though but in general I'm having my annual existential crisis

[@Nnnnnnnnnn670]

Just left school I finished the assignment though but in general I'm having my annual existential crisis

[@ryanratchford2530]

The futurama body swap episode created a new proof that the scientific community gave an award to

[@92brunod]

I think you mean theorem and not proof

[@Abigailk59]

What was the theorem it created/proved?

[@Boomer22G]

@@Abigailk59 it created the futurama theorem which only exists for the episode it came from and states that no matter how many body swaps happen, everyone can be put back in their original bodies with two extra people

[@Abigailk59]

@@Boomer22G thanks. It's really cool that an animated TV show did something like this.

[@Maccaroney]

@@Abigailk59 an animated show where one of the writers has a PHD in applied mathematics... Lol

[@h4m1cx94]

I'm pretty certain Fermat deceased short after noting that he indeed had proof but yet before he actually showed said proof.

[@iosefka7774]

He died thirty years after making the conjecture. As far as we know, he simply realised, in time, that he didn't actually have a proof.

[@johnr797]

​@@iosefka7774trusteth me, brethren.

[@4litrespoolyboi206]

Homer: “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.” Stall guy: That’s a right triangle ya idiot. Homer: Doh!

[@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1024]

"And here's a little lesson in trickery"

[@Etropicalbunny0210]

Arbiter and Chara Dreemurr ikr this is going down in history

[@Cappichow]

The Simpsons is so god tier

[@Homarr]

Shlomo PilpulStein is***

[@semnejlepsi8983]

@@Homarr was**

[@Homarr]

Vojtěch Doubrava is***

[@LeagueofStickmansHD]

@@Homarr was**

[@oz_jones]

C-tier South Park is good, yeah

[@SjorsHoukes]

Was looking forward to the “broken internet” part, but I guess you either forgot it or neglected to write it down?

[@ohhgeez865]

That's just a phrase which means 'made nerds online really excited'

[@SjorsHoukes]

@@ohhgeez865 I know, but there's no sign of that.

[@svavarkjarrval8757]

Maybe the reference would've been too narrow for this video to contain.

[@tatshmorningstar8811]

@@svavarkjarrval8757 HAHAJSHAHHAHA that was a Nice joke

[@matthewryan4844]

If you casually look at it to check, it would have two odd numbers adding to an even which checks out. A bit further, thinking just about the units digit (i.e. mod 10) it still checks out (powers of 7 cycle between 7, 9, 3 and 1 so 7^12 = 1, every power of 5 ends in 5 and on the right hand side because powers of 2 cycle between 2, 4, 8 and 6, then 2^12 = 6 so we see 1+5=6). However the disproof is found using mod 3: Both numbers on the left are multiples of 3 but the one on the right is not, which in numbers working mod 3 means 0 + 0 = 1 which is clearly wrong.

[@Dirvinator]

This broke the internet?

[@JG-rp8pr]

Yes

[@JogVodka]

A big disappointment

[@fenhen]

J G Buuuuull

[@Pood369]

Don't worry, they turned it off and on again.

[@AlehandroSosa]

@@Pood369 is it working now?

[@Thedarkknight2244]

Well it looks like “30 Rock” calling the writers of The Simpson’s geeks was no joke

[@LMC_Jarred]

I think one of the best parts of this is that you find out how minute the margin of error is and then think "I wonder how far apart the two sides of the equation are," but if my scientific calculator is correct, the difference is more than 10^33, or 1 followed by 33 zeroes.

[@chervilious]

you mean 10^(-33) ?

[@LMC_Jarred]

@@chervilious No, it's actually a _massive_ difference.

[@albertbatfinder5240]

Thanks for that, LM. It’s exactly what I was wondering. How close is really close when you consider the magnitude of numbers we are working with? I thought for a minute how fabulous it would be if it differed by and absolute 2 or 4 or something. Could there be near-misses out there?

[@ishantagarwal7745]

@@albertbatfinder5240 a really close one is 9³ + 10³ = 1729 729 + 1000 = 1729 This is really close to 12³ which is 1728, a mere difference of 1!

[@barbara-annemcgregor1769]

It’s pretty much impossible to explain this easily😂

[@FairyNuffMuffin2]

*cracks fingers* It was proved that for any power greater than 2, it should be impossible, however the Simpson provided a false example of a disproof that was close enough to fool at first look.

[@johnvarley4561]

Hardly.

[@w.5273]

This was easy explained.

[@ericdaniel323]

Mathematicians are pretty sure they know what Fermat's proposed proof involved. If you take an undergraduate course in Abstract Algebra you may learn about it, including an explanation of what's wrong with it. Understanding Andrew Wiles actual proof basically requires PhD level knowledge.

[@makotoplush9776]

Yeah, this is big brain time

[@kenroyadams2762]

As a Mathematics major, and a Simpsons fan, I enjoyed this video

[@unholydiver1095]

I have a degree in computer engineering but I am wishing I majored in mathematics. How's it going so far?

[@frazzlesreviews5379]

When I saw your image that you posted on the community page I actually thought of the moment where Homer wears glasses he finds in the toilet and says something similar.

[@swiftlymurmurs]

Matholeger has a great video on that called "Homer's Theorem"

[@carlosalexandreFAT]

The association of the main numbers in the field of mathematics with each other, reflects numerical sequences that correspond to the dimensions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun in the unit of measurement in meters, which is: 1' (second) / 299792458 m/s (speed of light in a vacuum). Perfect Number: 8,128 is the fourth of the numbers considered perfect. Earth's equatorial diameter 12,756 km. 8,128 / 12,756 x (10^4) = 6,371.90 Earth's average radius: 6,371 km. Golden Angle: 137.5 Perfect Number: 8.128 Pi: 3.14 (137.5 ^ 3.14) / 8.128 x 10 - 1 = 6,371.16 Earth's average radius: 6,371 km. Ramanujan number: 1,729 Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km. Golden number: 1.61803... • (1,729 x 6,378 x (10^-3)) ^1.61803 x (10^-3) = 3,474.18 Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. Ramanujan number: 1,729 Speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s Earth's Equatorial Diameter: 12,756 km. Earth's Equatorial Radius: 6,378 km. • (1,729 x 299,792,458) / 12,756 / 6,378) = 6,371 Earth's average radius: 6,371 km. The Cubit The cubit = Pi - phi^2 = 0.5236 Lunar distance: 384,400 km. (0.5236 x (10^6) - 384,400) x 10 = 1,392,000 Sun´s diameter: 1,392,000 km. Higgs Boson: 125.35 (GeV) Phi: 1.61803... (125.35 x (10^-1) - 1.61803) x (10^3) = 10,916.97 Circumference of the Moon: 10,916 km. Golden number: 1.618 Golden Angle: 137.5 Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 Universal Gravitation G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. (((1.618 ^137.5) / 6,378) / 6.67) x (10^-20) = 12,756.62 Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km. The Euler Number is approximately: 2.71828... Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. Golden number: 1.618ɸ (2.71828 ^ 6.67) x 1.618 x 10 = 12,756.23 Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km. Planck’s constant: 6.63 × 10-34 m2 kg. Circumference of the Moon: 10,916. Gold equation: 1,618 ɸ (((6.63 ^ (10,916 x 10^-4 )) x 1.618 x (10^3)= 12,756.82 Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12,756 km. Planck's temperature: 1.41679 x 10^32 Kelvin. Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. Speed of Sound: 340.29 m/s (1.41679 ^ 6.67) x 340.29 - 1 = 3,474.81 Moon's diameter:: 3,474 km. Cosmic microwave background radiation 2.725 kelvins ,160.4 GHz, Pi: 3.14 Earth's polar radius: 6,357 km. ((2,725 x 160.4) / 3.14 x (10^4) - (6,357 x 10^-3) = 1,392,000 The diameter of the Sun: 1,392,000 km. Numbers 3, 6 & 9 - Nikola Tesla One Parsec = 206265 AU = 3.26 light-years = 3.086 × 10^13 km. The Numbers: 3, 6 and 9 ((3^6) x 9) - (3.086 x (10^3)) -1 = 3,474 The Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. Now we will use the diameter of the Moon. Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. (3.474 + 369 + 1) x (10^2) = 384,400 The term L.D (Lunar Distance) refers to the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, which is 384,400 km. Moon's diameter: 3,474 km. ((3+6+9) x 3 x 6 x 9) - 9 - 3 + 3,474 = 6,378 Earth's equatorial radius: 6,378 km. Book: Orion. The Connection between Heaven and Earth eBook

[@umachan9286]

It's not the first time "The Simpsons" or "Futurama" did stuff like this as a throwaway gag that only a small portion of the population would see. Those shows had some very good writers. And yes, I used the past tense because current versions of "The Simpsons" are a pale ghost of what a great show it used to be.

[@theduke7539]

Homer also joked that the universe was actually shaped like a donut and Steven Hawking voiced by the actual steven hawking joking said hed steal it, and now, it is actually a competing hypothesis to the actual shape of the universe, which if proven true, would state that you could, while following a line of latitude on the universal plane would allow you to only travel in one direct and still arrive at the place your journey began.

[@harleyjohnson2913]

I hate to be That Guy, but David Cohen changed his middle initial for the production of Futurama, as a member of the Writer's Guild was already registered with his name. The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace was released the previous year.

[@greiver179]

I wanted to know how it broke the internet and the resulting discussion after this episode aired

[@thecurrentmoment]

Maybe the god particle scientists got it from the Simpsons

[@fuzzyalba5419]

The video explains that lots of people would’ve thought that the writers had found a solution to a problem that was previously considered impossible. People would’ve gone crazy over it

[@shadowmage5830]

There's actually a lot of maths jokes/references in the Simpsons - there's a book about it!

[@mikolajwojnicki2169]

I tried it on my calculator and on my phone and both show that it's not equal. Maybe in those days the calculators were so bad

[@jeromefuerte5670]

This has haunted me for 15 years...

[@tregard]

Simon Singh wrote a fantastic book on this among other Simpsons maths jokes :)

[@mishazubarev8969]

Let’s be honest, no one searched for this

[@louisacuddihy9502]

I did

[@tanner5809]

You should do a video on Matt groening and how he’s a time traveler 😂

[@ihateunicorns867]

The one thing that people never seem to acknowledge with those posts is how much of an influential cultural catalyst the Simpsons could be. I wonder how much was prediction and how much was actually life imitating art. For example, I'm sure Donald Trump would have watched an episode of the Simpsons if he was depicted in it. Maybe it planted a seed in his mind.

[@alanmckenna5608]

@@ihateunicorns867 Donald Trump was talking about running for President since 1988. That's why the Simpsons referenced it. He already had the idea well before the episode.

[@maugdw]

@@alanmckenna5608 what about the eerily similar election map? That's time travel right there

[@ohhgeez865]

In one of the futurama commentaries Cohen said he made his middle initial 'X' because there was already a David S Cohen in some screenwriters guild or something and they wouldnt allow two people with the same initial.

[@jayfredrickson8632]

It's pronounced fair-mah not fer-matt!

[@mrbonky1098]

Shhhhh.

[@milanstevic8424]

FUR-MAT the best theorems came from it img.ltwebstatic.com/images2_pi/2018/11/23/15429442042396707103_thumbnail_600x799.webp

[@akumaking1]

Bring these hidden gems back!

[@CreatureOfGoddess]

Mathematicians are gonna fuck around and summon Cthulhu

[@ihateunicorns867]

That's amazing. (by the way, it's pronounced Matt _GRAY-ning_ I think)

[@GleeAllmighty]

I hate unicorns “OE” is German Ö and the sound in English is closest to “a” as in “a thing”, but prolonged. However when switched to english pronounciation, google translate interprets it as “oi” as in “groin”. So Matt Groining. :) Cheers!

[@ihateunicorns867]

GleeAllmighty Interesting. But Matt Groening pronounces it ‘Grayning’.

[@NYsummertimeCHI]

And Fer-mah!

[@MgtowRubicon]

Fermat's version was a proof by induction involving binomial coefficients.

[@Inazarab]

Will you start doing Doctor Who review videos again?

[@Milo1267]

He was scrolling through a book in the third century 😂

[@ussling]

I can program my VCR so it displays the time and not sit there flashing 12.00. Oh, wait. That was last century.

[@DangerousPython]

Stop giving me high school flashbacks

[@JustTheJames]

Do you have a Spyfall video in the works? After I finished watching the episode, I instantly thought it would be perfect for this channel to do a breakdown of

[@skeeter2420]

They discuss it on their new podcast!

[@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human]

I can just imagine Neil Degrasse Tyson watching the show, noticing that equation, checking it on his iPhone's calculator, and having an absolute freak out until he double checked it on a scientific calculator. This is funnier as a joke than if Cohen had actually managed to solve the equation, but imagine how embarressing it would have been for the scientific community if 400 years of mathematicians couldn't solve this and then a Simpsons writer did. It would have been gloriously funny.

[@coachgoltzbizpro23]

Simpsons pre Series 11 was the best. Could make arguments that Homer vs. New York/Principal and the Pauper were the start of the decline though.

[@ilikelegos4247]

how is there a decimal? exponenents dont make decimals unless there was already a decimal

[@tomfarrance3868]

Used this as ASMR Maths puts me right the fuck to sleep

[@nicksardelli890]

Cool vid and the same gif playing over and over is driving me crazy

[@DankHD1080p]

It broke my internet now I cant do anything how do I fix my internet

[@FullFatVideos]

The only way to fix it is to like, share and subscribe!

[@samjudge1240]

Best stop the video or my mind will explode in confusion. Well made observation.

[@garywright4106]

I have a really funny comment to go here. But I ran out of space.

[@eliyasne9695]

You can easily disprove it by examining divisibility by 3.

[@danielthorne8801]

There’s a great book by Simon Singh all about this and other Simpson’s math moments people should check out

[@thegiantpumpkin5903]

It’s pronounced GRAYNING

[@garcipat]

How can a calculation with whole numbers and only addition and multiplication result in after comma digits?

[@fuzzyalba5419]

It’s this thing called “standard form” which is used to denote really big numbers. For example, instead of writing “60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000” you would write “6 * 10^25”, which means the same thing but is more concise & easier to write. This gets a bit more complicated when the written number doesn’t mainly consist of 0s, e.g. “83,674,944,566,436,053 = 8.3674944566436053 * 10^16”, which is why there are decimals in the equation.

[@rosie6381]

and I cant even pass my math exams:(

[@whilde5417]

The simpson , always the best

[@jordanforster5543]

No one: this guy bringing back a episode from over a decade ago

[@chachaanderson1004]

Bro ,people that know calculus don’t watch simpsons

[@hayreddinbarbarossa661]

And boomers told me cartoons would rot my brain, eat that boomers.

[@RoganClipVaultYT]

Excuse me, what?

[@zoadragon3521]

If you enter that equation into any calculator that is not a high end scientific calculator, it would look like a mathematically ground breaking discovery. But if you enter it into a high end calculator, you would discover it isn't.

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

This is fantastic

[@DVDFanatic_The]

We did work on the Pythagoras theorem in our mathematics class.

[@tomryan3408]

So did literally everyone

[@DVDFanatic_The]

Whatever.

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

@@tomryan3408 in fairness, it kinda one of the most important theorems in the world, both from a historical perspective (Pythagoras had what was basically a cult. A maths cult. That really, really pissed people off) and from a modern perspective, mainly due to it's association with fermats last theorem, and without going into to much detail, the proof for that theorem was directly linked to a different conjecture, one that offered an incredible possibility for mathmaticians, the ability to bounce complexes conjectures and problems between fields, so that they could be approached using different, potentially game changing techniques.

[@tomryan3408]

@@Santisima_Trinidad fair

[@cogspace]

The T in Fermat is silent.

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Full Fat! And maths to boot! Not a bad way to start the day... 😉

[@pezwarrior4]

Protestant heaven vs catholic heaven was an episode too what was that all about?

[@Gordy-io8sb]

It's "Fer-MAH", not "Fer-MATT".

[@MCatwar]

ahh it would be so funny if they woulda made references to a simpson’s rule riemann sum

[@jameschandler127]

1:09 so it's all this guys fucking fault

[@xx3868]

Seriously, those guys should be running the US finances; i mean could they do any worse????

[@benquinneyiii7941]

You say maths

[@logundev]

Until now I always thought that this channel was called Full Flat Videos... I have know idea why.

[@kiloknight94]

I came for Homer. I stayed for Homer.

[@gurrrn1102]

Simon Singh already did it

[@tashquantum]

The t in Fermat is silent

[@matthunter8707]

Someone's read mathematics of the Simpsons by Simon Singh 👀

[@darragh666]

Broke the internet in 1998?

[@Sirenhound]

It was very delicate back then

[@mloongisy]

what's the track in the background? it's 🔥

[@petermanley7525]

Superb

[@TheGregcawthorne]

Or just subtract them like a sane person and see its not right

[@FullFatVideos]

What do you mean?

[@TheGregcawthorne]

Full Fat Videos The video divided LHS by RHS to show 1.000000...... But I feel most people would just subtract LHS by RHS. It's a) a cheaper operation computationally and b) completely avoids the rounding problems and integer^integer is an integer and also integer + integer - integer is an integer.

[@sythygaming6458]

So if you wanna "cat shit" the link is in the description below?

[@rage_2000]

1:08 I heard “criticised”

[@zanderstein1739]

Yeah sounds nice, but no one cares the greatest simpsons joke is Sneed's feed & seed (formally chuck's)

[@DarkpawTheWolf]

Back when The Simpsons was still funny. After season 12, it pretty much tanked and never recovered.

[@jarrodbragg3323]

Um how does the addition of 2 whole numbers equal a number that isn't whole?

[@FullFatVideos]

I mean as a really simple example 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 The small twos denote 'squared' so the sum is actually 9+16=25

[@JKenny44]

You get a whole number answer but when you put it to the twelvth root that's when you get the decimal answer. I was confused too.

[@heliocentric1756]

I have a truly marvelous joke for which this comment is too narrow to contain.

[@krankinkogs]

considering all the simpsons "coincidences" it makes sense they have some brainiac mathematician as a writer on a "cartoon"

[@mathieuleader8601]

Pi is exactly 3

[@noahstibs4273]

No

[@ehdave100]

Lmao. Yeah Matt you tell em. Seem to remember you calling maths lame

[@DaveButtons]

Holy shit, it just a joke...

[@loweffortgaming2593]

Matt "Groaning"?

[@MichaelM28]

Sequels > Aids > prequels

[@ChowMeinWarrior]

Genius

[@danielcarlson8898]

3:20 mafs

[@florinnatu]

i don.t understand NO FUCKIN WORD

[@metalmark9276]

Geniune question. Can you get a phd in mathmatics like the video says?

[@Resavian]

absolutely you can.

[@viborgguys1]

This makes me feel stupid, thank!

[@yuda49]

Fermat's last theorem is a fact Fermat's did not claim that there are no whole solutions to equation. Fermat's claim that are no solutions to the equation in whole numbers.

[@Gavinjim]

How the Simps tricked us

[@Cookie__XD]

You didn't tell us about how the internet broke... Dislike.

[@billburros5343]

“Maths?”

[@OnyersixForLife]

BillBurros yes, maths. That’s how it is abbreviated in UK.