The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve - Collatz Conjecture

[@ghostphalanx]

Whoever created all those graph animations is an absolute master in after effects expressions

[@pratanakangsadal2567]

Amen.

[@gn4sty731]

BR?

[@GamingWithTimmy0]

The thumbnail equals 1 cause 3x_ is 3x nothing so if I did that it would be 0 and if I plus the 1 it = 1

[@GamingWithTimmy0]

Math

[@cirque1783]

BY "NO ONE" : He meant about Americans cause he himself is a american who dont knows anything about the outside world .

[@cosmicnomad8575]

I absolutely love how mathematicians always find the most random things to debate over!

[@soumyadityachakraborty2457]

ridiculous too

[@oreziopancrazio3685]

I totally agree. What a waste of time

[@christloen4077]

Not a waste of time. If you can find this solution, probably there is something you can achieve and get.

[@oreziopancrazio3685]

@@christloen4077 No way

[@christloen4077]

In your mind

[@marcokapusta3843]

This math problem is actually like my trading portfolio, I can start with any number but end at $ 1

[@JeffMTX]

you too? :)

[@luca6819]

I tried to remove the eyelash on the display 🤭

[@davidbesant]

There's that damn eyelash on my screen again!

[@RetroFuel]

@@luca6819 .same lol

[@Hoshino_Channel]

@@luca6819 You're using youtube in lightmode? ;o

[@jacobhill948]

I noticed that if you take the negative modified version of the sequence it follows a specific pattern. It always returns to one of 3 options: -1, -5/-7 loop or the -17 loop. This pattern holds up to at least -10 million from my tests so far.

[@Myself_The_Cap_Guy]

Yea same here

[@rodrigocandido4772]

Same with me

[@AnVissW]

Did bro solve it? (For first 10 million)

[@diardpars1496]

@AnVissWno as it says positive interger

[@k.pacificnw02134]

Everyone here: "...but just a maaaaybe I'll be the one to solve it."

[@TheGreekGodOfWallStreet]

"I could write a computer program to try and solve it". Because I'm sure nobody has tried that before 😪

[@evilkillerwhale7078]

You can actually instantly solve for half of all numbers. If all numbers up to an odd N works, (n+1)/2

[@jrbros2371]

I too thought i could solve it :D

[@systim30]

What is there to solve? There is nothing to solve

[@jrbros2371]

@@rabiebabies7812 0 is not positive but it forms a loop. Its also not negative but no number ends up at zero so it is independent loop of itself

[@jokes.on.u]

Teacher: Why did you not answer the questions on your test. Me: Because the Math is not ripe enough for me to answer these questions

[@anyaburke6636]

facts

[@lordsiomai]

Imma use this

[@scottmurphy248]

@@lordsiomai be honest, no you won't

[@compszn]

@@anyaburke6636 its 6

[@krisha8430]

@Human Kind its already a 1000 We can make it 2000??

[@leebydeeby]

My calculus professor just introduced this conjecture to us last week, and ever since then I've been shamelessly addicted to just bringing up a random number generator for a starting point and wasting away the hours.

[@astronautboynr2018]

nerd

[@livinglogically8180]

Atleast find better ways of procrastination

[@r-a-kralphandkoto2413]

@Hence Forgot bricks bit to though to bite on man ill rather have alloyed steel

[@Mr.Human69]

Ez Answer Is 9 I was Doing my math Homework Bruh

[@sera_makyuri]

You have a great teacher if they motivated you to spend hours on this!

[@AlexandreDuarteWashington]

That's why Number Theory is so fascinating: the proposition is simple, the proof (if any) is very hard...

[@jipeshquessou9450]

It's easy if you remember the maths of the past and don't focus on using computers

[@Linuscraft2022]

KZbin gave me the chance to rate your comment

[@Yihtc]

“Pick a number” Me:Fou- “Seven? Good choice” Me:but I-

[@rachelx04]

I said 4, I usually say 3 but I said 4 😂

[@palindromia130]

He said seven because seven is more likely to be chosen lmao

[@ArcFenixDelacroix]

I think Im the only one who chose 7

[@vor0g]

Only reason I'm not liking is bc tbe lile count is at 69

[@samirh2758]

I didn't choose a number at all because no one can make me do math.

[@MrScientific]

Nice work Soviets. You got me.

[@thishandleisnotavaliable]

Hitler be like :

[@akshatvikramsingh8293]

@@thishandleisnotavaliable I was watching this video without signing in, but signed in just to like your comment buddy.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

The Cold War won't truly be won until the Collatz Conjecture is resolved.

[@thishandleisnotavaliable]

@@akshatvikramsingh8293 thanks mate.

[@ultramb6206]

Ngl i hate your facebook page lol

[@dabolife1]

Math problem no one can solve: Exists Me: Finally I'm not the only one who is bad at math.

[@risav202]

Not able to do a math problem, doesn't make you bad at math.

[@therealitygab6074]

@@risav202 please explain. i dont agree

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@risav202 Nah.

[@mjzudba5268]

I literally just saw you on Nas Daily...

[@TheDarkDresser]

@@risav202 I assume that you're not referring to math in general, just a specific math problem. Those of us with dyscalculia find even basic math challenging, to say the least.

[@rhydean693]

I'm 30 years from high school, and numbers and math still fascinate me. I don't always understand everything in these videos, but I still love watching them.

[@parkiel54]

Oh my god, this poor animator. That is a serious amount of dedication. Looks fantastic!

[@quitee_misty]

i was just gonna say that! Amazing work by the editor.

[@remenyo]

It seems like it is made by the same software that 3b1b uses.

[@user-xf6ox6zx4w]

Amajing

[@danielrasheedi]

@@remenyo what is it??

[@MehtabSinghEdhan]

i generated these graphs with python matplotlib, and then save the changing graphs for value of x, in an image sequence, then played them in premiere pro, voila..no animation needed for graphs and bar graphs 😁you can generate graphs with python

[@agentkp4574]

Mathematicians: Dont waste your time on this problem 20.7 million people: YES

[@davidmedina7721]

Just cuz you said that I'm going to code a program that runs through all posible combinations on scratch

[@apbe2q35]

3 years year old me : what is maltiplikaton?

[@Seeker-dx1gj]

Ok

[@BoEatsApples]

13 Million*

[@Penguins459]

more

[@walkastray007]

A couple of days ago he had a poll on what colour would evens and odds would be if they had a colour. The poll decided blue as even and red as odd. In this video, he has the evens as blues and the odds as reds. I love how much he cares about his community and the little details.

[@veg411]

Good pickup!

[@valval4145]

Wow I did the poll a few seconds before scrolling to the video and this comment, I was wondering what the poll was for

[@NandR]

Good catch. I like the social experiment that is in itself. That is such an arbitrary question that it should be close to 50/50. But it seems something is tilting us one way. Is it nature or society?

[@valval4145]

@@NandR I was also thinking the same. Maybe people who prefer the color blue also prefer even numbers, or people who prefer the color red also prefer odds? Just a thought

[@JS-jh4cy]

What about color blind people, there choices may be just a valid, pick any of the two, for maybe they are different shades of the same color??

[@BiaSilva-ri3tx]

I have an INSANE coincidence related to this. I discovered this in 2022, and became obsessed, learned a lot about it just because I love math (I'm not even from the exact sciences, I was studying for the ""SAT"" from my country to study psychology). Then, this extremely specialized subject, something a student from high school would have NO business knowing about, ACTUALLY SHOWED UP IN MY "SAT"!!! It was insane, they explained a bit about it and it was kind of just the context for the question they wanted to ask, but everyone I've talked to about it said the question was extremely hard because they had to spend time figuring out what the heck this was. I did it with ease because I was so familiarized with it. Anyway, it was completely crazy and I have this channel to thank because it was what started my interest in the collatz conjecture

[@rishikeshwagh]

Dont get stuck in a loop now!

[@Drux.i]

I have never been someone who liked math during school, but for some reason I find it so completely interesting to learn about on my own time.

[@ultraslanmc]

cause you don’t have an exam and your future on it while watching this video, but at school, yes

[@Drux.i]

@@ultraslanmc That's a very good point! No stress to learn it 😂

[@thelocalnecromancer1224]

Same. Things are so much more interesting when you learn them on your own than when you learn them at school.

[@Serpentis666]

The yearn for understanding really seems to increase with age…

[@artificialintelligenceplus1321]

Found the mathematical phenomenon A very interesting channel - " Artificial Intelligence plus Lottery"..

[@Hanyamanusiabiasa]

Me : "That's interesting puzzle, maybe I can solve it" Me 22 minutes later : "oh."

[@Dizzy00001]

Lol

[@theultimatetime8029]

Same I was like I'm gonnna guess a random number and try to do it..but 2⁶⁰ is really a big numbers they tried

[@mjzudba5268]

@@theultimatetime8029 well, Derek (the narrator in the video) did say that 2 to the 60 is nothing compared to the other numbers tried in Polya's conjecture. The counterexample which disproved Polya's conjecture was 1.845 × 10^361, an immense number. Still, 2 to the 60 is BIG.

[@theultimatetime8029]

@@mjzudba5268 yes ofcourse

[@khuetranxuan8218]

@@theultimatetime8029 try 70!,it's bigger or even 2^70!

[@harryc5951]

This was one of the first programming test I ever made - two players could enter a number and the winner was the one who reached the highest number of steps over 10 rounds.

[@harshancl5360]

Good idea, might practice by doing that...

[@AlmaMorrell-x8f]

I appreciate how you simplify even the hardest topics.

[@DrTrefor]

This is a delightful exploration of the Collatz Conjecture, thank you! I particularly liked just how pretty the visualizations become when you play with adding rotations for evens and odds.

[@___vv___6474]

You're videos are great sir I am glad to meet you But just for your kind information sir Almighty the chosen one can solve this problem but he don't have time we have to convince him

[@DoiInthanon1897]

As did I. Shedding light on a difficult topic is no easy feat.

[@cemgecgel4284]

What about rules like 1x+1 or 2x+1 or 4x+1 etc. Do they form loops?

[@jorgepeterbarton]

Its like somewhere in maths is every organic shape we thought made life somehow special, yet of course, life is biochemistry, its ruled by maths....yet maths is not so regular, so the often made philosophical presumption is that maths produces mechanistic outcomes, when it doesn't. Contingent complexity is one thing though, and hard problems like consciousness are another, but at least philosophically there is some descriptor of aesthetic natural beauty in a way. A way where we can look at the whole like we can a histogram but not make a rule of its parts, like an equation. Such as, those who also presume to quantify art, or say it is relativistic- even from a mathematical pure materialistic sense it has to be neither, but changing quality depending on which level is observed.

[@___vv___6474]

@@cemgecgel4284 actually not worthy I tried all of them but 3x+1 do best job And 3x-1 if you take negative numbers

[@kugelblitz7946]

i wrote this comment to appreciate that those graphs were not just random. There were exact and to the scale.

[@itismethatguy]

Ikr

[@Sintinium]

Ikr I wonder how many days or months it took to build all of those. Unless he wrote a program for it then maybe a day or two

[@EpicVideos2]

@@Sintinium of course he wrote a program for it but I expect the developer probably spent at least 2 weeks on making it.

[@AxxLAfriku]

You dislike the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload? Are you just a h8er boi? I say see you l8er boi. Don't watch the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload anymore. Your dislikes are damaging my good good GOOD reputation. I am a superstar, dear kd

[@kugelblitz7946]

@@Sintinium I think he paid some small company to do that, a single person is unlikely to do that

[@bleethan6809]

"One of the worlds greatest mathematicians..." (shows a picture of himself) "...Terry Tao" (Extends photo.) Edit: How is my best comment on a Math video xD

[@AYAyayayaya987]

I was laughing a lot xD

[@uwuowo4856]

Funny

[@SJ-cl4wq]

Politician in the making. Australians be ready 🤣

[@ShouvikMukherjee0-_-0]

bait level 2^69

[@floramiller1133]

You just wrote down what everyone saw.. lol comments be hella typical these days

[@rhacer4]

In order to get a mirror image of 3x+1 with negative numbers, you need 3x-1. 3x+1 with negative numbers should be the mirror image of 3x-1 with positive numbers. After all, you're after a scalar of 3 and an offset of 1 away from 0.

[@javiersolis2993]

The animation is everything here.

[@milkshake7180]

@DON'T stfu

[@reallemming1dago..888]

@DON'T stfu bi-

[@WillCrewMusic]

You both just fell for his trap lmfao

[@milkshake7180]

@@WillCrewMusic i didnt even read the pfp the text is too small to see LMAO

[@everywhereman9003]

@DON'T IM GONNA SAY THE N WORD

[@grimaffiliations3671]

Me: Where should we eat? Girlfriend: Mathematics is not yet ripe enough for such question

[@aashsyed1277]

Noo

[@segmentsAndCurves]

I love your girlfriend. Wait, no, it's not what you think it is!!!

[@srijanpanicker5395]

LMAO🤣🤣🤣

[@rana8440]

😝

[@Pikachu-Gaming1764]

Lol

[@mikaylawilliams1651]

Me: math is my worst subject. There’s just too many weird rules for me to follow. Also me: uh, wow, that makes sense. Edit; thank you for all the likes. It makes me happy to see ppl relate to my comment’

[@l1lsxtry]

Hehe same

[@mikaylawilliams1651]

@Dylan Brokaw ???

[@ayo4182]

@@mikaylawilliams1651 ???

[@justanothersofia2125]

Samr

[@Ilovedogs2017]

@Krishkrash14 ???

[@demensclay6419]

A big shoutout ot the graphics department for making this 100% more understandable!

[@gniewko123456]

a big shout down to yoy that you were'nt able to get such a simple equal...

[@josiahjray]

I really hope this is satire 🤣🤣

[@gniewko123456]

@@josiahjray baited :D

[@josiahjray]

@@gniewko123456 Hope so lol

[@anndyarguedo4453]

Ah yes, 999 likes

[@isaacpalmer1195]

Mathway: “Am i a joke to you?” Photomath: “Answer the question.”

[@cryptedmage9739]

Lol wassup homie

[@dino_tokic8884]

Lmaoo

[@WestExplainsBest]

Ugh those programs are virtual math teachers worst nightmare.

[@Martdogg3000]

I like the amount of people who didn't watch the video for even a moment, and are just here talking about how easy it is to solve 3x+1.

[@ItsMe-gw4kb]

I watched it up to 20:57, and had a couple of thoughts along the way. First off, I hit the loop quickly because my chosen number is 4. My thoughts were that this could be considered an exercise in looking at every possible angle of a situation, which both has practical applications, and seems likely to sharpen the analytical way of thinking -- or likely to be frustrating because there is no clear answer other than the loop, without finding an alternate path. A good brain exercise, no question. Second, while looking at the visual ways to consider this, since I'm an occasional artist, I thought mapping it would be a great way to create some drawings or paintings and either add to them, based on what I saw, or call them finished. Either way, it's great for stimulating the mind. And if anyone chose to read all this, it's also fun to think about.

[@Beauxman13]

12

[@hasselbecksucks]

The video is 20 minutes. LoL. Of course they not going to watch it.

[@GnarlsMSMREAL]

It's 4

[@joanheartless9817]

There is actually two ways to solve that and I put money u would lose if u tried to guess the other way

[@PatrickTaylor-s1i]

This is my favorite channel for learning new things!

[@nimamaster6128]

The fact that this is the basis to making an organic shaped coral mesmerized me.

[@ShatteredCelestial]

wait really? lmao

[@shibe6181]

Wow 4th

[@cristianrivas4606]

Can we not use decimals?

[@Arthurgoldlizard]

it grows, makes an unpredictable, chaotic but somewhat beautiful image, and then inevitably falls back down to 1. like life and death cycle.

[@artificialintelligenceplus1321]

Found the Mathematical Phenomenon A very interesting channel - " Artificial Intelligence plus lottery"

[@dylanlafreniere3479]

I love the thought of numerical values plotted out in a visible graph could create images, passing information by nothing more than numbers and understanding of how to multiply and plot them out.

[@IzzyIsIsi]

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not😂

[@richardm4617]

Have you never seen a mathematical equation expressed in a graph before? If not, I assume you are either very young or new to math because it’s common and can be an extremely useful tool.

[@eevee486]

Uh yes yes very nice

[@Vorceyt]

@@IzzyIsIsi its not they are just saying how super basic things can create super cool images

[@shiteshchourasia]

The transition at 12.33 "World's greatest living mathematician ..." was so hilarious. Well played sir.. well played.

[@karlmarx828]

12:33

[@blu_zushi]

Yeah It Got Me Laughing

[@adityakrishnamalhotra1]

@@karlmarx828 i love you 😩😩 My favourite capitalist

[@dhruvalvyas3924]

He said “ONE OF THE world’s greatest living Mathematician".

[@HolyZahard]

It seriously doesn't take effort to write 12:33 But seeing your pfp it makes sense since its shikamaru

[@PranavPandey]

Your way of Explaining through Graphics is beautiful sir.

[@thatoneguylol7342]

@@icantlivewithoutnesquik2032 109 likes :/ Now its 321 likes lmao, You thought you could Make a good point there but you couldn't LOL

[@knuckle12356]

These types of graphics are the way I always visualized mathematics when in school. Being born in the early 80s, this kind of stuff wasn't available until near the end of my compulsory track. But I always saw the action taking place that the numbers described. Loved loved loved the advent of visual graphics integrated into mathematical teachings. Really shows how dynamic this stuff is.

[@kyzee.2]

@@icantlivewithoutnesquik2032 the lowest number is 1 meanwhile me learning more complex math that have negative numbers be like: bruhhhh

[@ole86]

3blue1brown: "Pff...."

[@OnideusMadHatter]

I'm 7 minutes in, why is the pacing in this video so terrible? This is just a simplified form of: momentum - gravity It's the most basic example of an equation that takes itself into consideration, because gravity continues to decrease the momentum over time. You could think of it as a temporal equation.

[@Christopher-of-Columbus]

I'm not a mathematician but found this fascinating enough to watch the entire video.

[@jplaguee88]

Same

[@YXNTE]

Fr bro also me

[@laurenpowers2100]

Sam3

[@crustyaf1s]

everyone is a mathematician whether they know it or not ew wtf just happened

[@user-xw4mu6nz4t]

Yep, so did 99.9% of viewers that watched

[@fredmertz2539]

12:34 "one of the world's greatest living mathematicians..." the editing really got me laughing. Nicely done.

[@abirhossainshanto4900]

lol😂🤣🤣

[@EBGamez1]

369th like :)

[@michgroy1427]

Same lol I was looking for the comment

[@funkythumper]

Got me too, 😂

[@veona599]

@@michgroy1427 Lol ! Me too

[@GitaKamath]

@SanjayKamath 2:40 Refer to my earlier post PS : The path, if traversed from X= 1 to 5 remains a scalar transformation, where only magnitudes change.. When you emerge from this zone, scalar and vector transformations are involved.. This is a key 🗝️ indicator, and it's physics equivalent is the 4 D tesseract

[@Loomchar]

Pretty much every subject in school is really interesting if I’m not forced to learn it

[@EnriqueLaberintico]

History of the entire world, I guess convinces me.

[@octaviovilchez3096]

Pretty much every subject in university is really interesting if I"m not forced to learn it

[@alexmangorove]

School in a form of forced education kills interests and produces stupider people. Coersion always makes things worse.

[@seanallen8828]

English, grammar

[@benfulford3943]

Sorry to hear that you did not have good teachers. I was fortunate to go to a great school that had many good teachers that were able to teach stuff like this in interesting and engaging way. It was the teachers that failed you not the environment where you are 'forced to learn'.

[@Yextiny]

"This math is weird because of math. We can't do enough math to solve the math - there's just too much math!"

[@holdontoyourwig]

You could start by calling it MATHS

[@user-lg9cf4sw4x]

my dumbass brain is quaking

[@AAAEA010]

Pretty much lol

[@babydriver8134]

Weapons of Math Instruction?

[@bujharvard9313]

@@holdontoyourwig Unless he's British, why should he?

[@darthenx2585]

The amount of graphic work that had to be done for this video is insane.

[@chronical]

Exactly what i was thinking, i was like man props to whoever worked on this video

[@peterh222]

Try a Captain Disillusion video ... And he does those all himself

[@markjohnson7508]

Really.. wow. Entropy maybe

[@josefwakeling7103]

@@peterh222 *disillusion

[@birchthebirch4593]

Listen ...don't look

[@mauricioiturrieta2497]

I cant even imagine the amount of work put into the visuals of this video, and of course the research and everything. Thank you so much for this!

[@Blind_Ghostling]

I tried solving the 3x+1 in algebra, and.... yeah I wasted a lot of time. I have learned my lesson. Listen to mathematicians 😔

[@Blind_Ghostling]

I WASTED 3 HOURS AND 49 MINUTES ON SOLVING A PROBLEM, THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE.

[@blueshell_dev]

@@Blind_Ghostling I wrote code that loops through every number possible, the largest number I got "Which was how much numbers were in the loop" was approximately 6300+ but other than that like no luck.

[@epsteinsghost7247]

@@Blind_Ghostling But what is it that they are trying to solve for? That all numbers come back down to 1? Or what?

[@Blind_Ghostling]

@@epsteinsghost7247 i've got no idea 😂

[@kotokrabs]

13:55 - my face when started watching this video 18:05 - my face in process of watching

[@nubraofficial2345]

Ooh 16 likes. I bet it will be 2K before 24 hours.

[@Ssss-ve6ym]

😂🤣 I don't know why I clicked on this video but im glad I did because I saw this comment

[@makelelemakelele]

I can't stop laughing at this =D

[@jolteoff]

here before this blows up lol

[@Ssss-ve6ym]

@@jolteoff same

[@Ali-Mhsn]

I laughed when he said "one of the greatest mathematicians" and showed his his grinning into the camera

[@VERSACE.1X]

?

[@John-el5sv]

@@VERSACE.1X 12:36

[@VERSACE.1X]

@@John-el5sv i see. thought he meant the guy frm the beginning.

[@PureMagma]

Humble-bragging or else it's a better way to subvert expectations before revealing truth! Terry Tao looks like someone who would appreciate the joke. 😅

[@utkarshsaini5650]

"Why 3x+1 is famous" "May be its not famous but infamous" Lmao

[@DTN001.]

I think we must approach differently as changing the inputs of the problem. If we do O>5n+1, E>n/2 we find a loop at 13. If we do O>5n+3, E>n/2 we find a loop at 3. But what if we do O>(n^3)+1, E>??? We cannot give a number but 2 to input of even numbers, if we want to divide by. This is their property, indeed this is their definition. For odd numbers, it must not be a quickly-ascelating formula like factorial, but clearly it must not convert the number to odd number neither. Maybe if we can find a connection, we can step further.

[@TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn]

Mad respect to the animators here. That must've been a lot of work.

[@michagiedrojc5513]

And how much work on calculator.

[@isidorregenfu9632]

Looks like 3blue1brown's framework manim at work

[@someidiot6067]

i agree, but there are other people that have animators do even more like haminations (he's a story time animator)

[@quyento9108]

Someone's back is hurtt

[@cissedeclercq5567]

we do or best.

[@CrimsonRegalia]

"What do you do for a living?" Mathematician: "I am studying 3x+1."

[@anunknownperson4018]

havent watch the whole video but 3x+1 is impossible to solve bc it has infinite solutions??

[@vector1213]

Big maffs

[@fanaticjay3825]

no one not even no one me: 3x+1 equals 1 because 3x nothing is 0 amd + 1 is 1

[@Floorlicker2000]

When I saw that picture I was like it’s obviously 4x I disagree

[@HaaKaaf]

@@fanaticjay3825 bruh what

[@haxexd2830]

"Pick a number" "- Seven?" "Seven? Good choise!" "- Looks Back Carefully"

[@LaniPlayzRoblox]

*choice

[@keenjoaquin847]

@@LaniPlayzRoblox *choise

[@mrcrunch4635]

@@keenjoaquin847 *chuse

[@Uranium_chewer]

@@LaniPlayzRoblox choes

[@sigmatime69]

@@mrcrunch4635 *cheese

[@jeanmenieur]

"The simplest math problem no one can solve" My math professor: oh, looks perfect for the exam!

[@rohangupta3363]

🤗 congrats on 300 likes

[@Phantom-el6oe]

It can be solved. Edit: So apparently this is an algorithm, so in this case: f(x)={1;2;3;4} or f(x)=[4;1] (those are random numbers, not a solution). This is the correct way to solve problem like this, which is what you learn in algebra classes There is always a solution in math, except you need to write it differently than x=7. Also, if there isn't any possible solution (like delta of an angle being less than zero), then you simply write "no answer" and close the case

[@destros6576]

@@Phantom-el6oe ?

[@organizedmicrowave4414]

@@Phantom-el6oe He's not doing an exam, are u dumb?

[@salimkibria6955]

@@Phantom-el6oe but u cant actually do that

[@HSamee]

I salute those who genuinely understand this. You have my respect and admiration. I've tried once and I'll try again but I'm just not good at math. But still it's so fundamentally fascinating that I cannot just leave it be. The way in which mathematics describes the very universe is just mind blowingly scary.

[@thisismyalias]

Just stay curious and I promise you things will get clearer the more you dig into it.

[@kfj6709]

Not scary, enigmatic. And the enigma is beautiful and haunting whether or not you understand it or not.

[@austinwalker6307]

8x8*2

[@corvusmoneduloides7420]

Whoever did those mind-blowingly intricate and utterly beautiful graphics deserves the highest accolade.

[@Christian2002_]

I have a question and is like why are we trying to solve a math problem without solution? Instead we have to try to learn more about the space for example. I mean is a problem that have no solution everytime you go n *3 +1 /2 you are going to get a number that you already did so you get to the same conclusion. Even if there is a number this math problem solves nothing, just the problem itselfs. Very good video by the way and is such a cool math problem.

[@Yemsky]

I’d love to know what visualisation tools were used in the production.

[@jackbrax7808]

@@Christian2002_ By “solving the problem” what we mean is to find a proof for the question. That being, if you have a function where 3x+1 is applied when odd and x/2 when even, where x is an element of the natural numbers, then all x will be reduced to the repetition of 4,2,1. Is this true or false? The goal is to find a proof for this theorem. That is the goal. The idea behind putting values of x in is to see if we cans find patterns that might lead to an answer. This is very common especially in the case where we see circular patterns as it could hint that Pi is involved. Edit: The other goal is to prove that this is false. The overall goal is to prove or deny the theorem. Edit 2: It was pointed out to me that the question you posed was more of questioning the questions worth and less what the questions is. The answer is why not? A better answer is one from 2 perspectives. One is from the idea that we should try and iron out as many holes in mathematics as humanly possible. We want math to be as consistent and explained as we can make it as it strengthens math overall. Solving specific problems like this is part of how we strengthen math as a science. The other more important reason is that a discovery of a proof for this question might open new doors in mathematics. Maybe someone finds a clever solution that inspires someone else. Maybe we create an entire new mathematical concept to aid in the solving of the problem that then opens the doors for an entire new branch of math. Newton created calculus in his attempts to solve certain specific questions for example. Solutions to specific problems like this can aid in the solving and overall understanding of mathematics as a whole.

[@Feisty123]

@@jackbrax7808 i think OCs question was more like "why do the great mathematecians waste time on this?" Instead of using their talents for other causes

[@jackbrax7808]

@@Feisty123 Ah I see. I will make an edit for correction thank you.

[@DiamondV311]

When it comes to 3x+1, I think that it is 100% true, because of a bit of logic that I have only seen a couple of people think of. A great mathematician can be the smartest person in the world, but they cannot solve a problem if they focus on only the math part instead of breaking it down to what it is actually doing and looking at the logic behind that. What I have seen everyone doing is brute forcing, trying everything they can think of rather than coming up with the logic and thinking with the data that is realistically achievable and thinking of what it is building off of. In the 3x+1 problem, the logic that is happening is that 3x+1 always makes it even and then when it is divided by 2, it goes down until it is odd. When it makes it even, there is always a percentage chance that it becomes a power of 2 and shoots back down to the 4 2 1 pattern. The reason the formula 3x+1 always makes it even has already been established, the problem with why it doesn't go to infinity, is because we are doing basic math operations to finite integers with finite integers. If you keep adding 1 + 1, it is adding 1 to a finite number, so there is always another number that is higher than it, therefore it will never go to infinity. same with 2 * 2, despite it getting exponentially bigger, there is always a bigger number because if we are taking the expanded form of the number, multiply all of them by 2 which is easy, and add them up, we will never reach infinity. Tying back to 3x+1 again, we are doing 3x, and unless x is infinity, 3x+1 will never reach close to even the smallest infinity. inevitably, it will always reach the chance to be a multiple of 2 and shoot back down to 4 2 1, because there is a 0% chance that it goes to infinity, but the probability of hitting a multiple of 2 is still there. And with any chance and rolling for it infinite times, it doesn't matter if it gets exponentially smaller because it will eventually hit it. These are unedited thoughts, please don't blame me if it doesn't make sense

[@bestbearyt]

Yes same thoughts! That's why I believe the conjecture is true! To reach the 4-2-1 cycle, we just need to hit a power of two. An even number that is not a power of two (like 6, 10, 12, 14 for example) will always reach an odd number when halved. At an odd number, we do 3x+1 to get another even number which will then be halved. This process is bruteforcing in order to get a number that is a power of two. The set of numbers that are a power of two is countably infinite. So we will eventually reach a number that is a power of two, leading into the 4-2-1 loop. It's just the number of steps needed to reach a number that is a power of two, which can be large but would not be infinity.

[@GitaKamath]

@SanjayKamath To find: 3x + 1 X= 0 answer= 1 X= 1 answer= 4 X= 2 answer= 7 X= 3 answer= 10 X=4 answer= 13 X=5 answer = 16 (even) Last 5 terms are 16 8 4 2 1 Leading to 3 2 1 0 dimensions satisfying both Quantum degeneracy (Unraveling of 3 2 1 0 dimensions) and Classical (Einsteinian) Space time Integration with physics The 4 dimensions can mapped to a 4 D tesseract (3 space + 1 time) ie 16^ 0.25 order 3. 2^y=2^exp(4-1) y = 3 😊 PS : Since Even terms start from X>=2 answer> 1 It means that a cube is the best fit for space time that meets the needs of Quantum degeneracy [3 2 1 0] and solves QM and Classical Einsteinian Relativity @ the same time 😮 It also means that the string theory is redundant 😊 3D observers can not make sense of 3+ dimensions. 13:25 PS : The path, if traversed from X= 1 to 5 remains a scalar transformation, where only magnitudes change.. When you emerge from this zone, scalar and vector transformations are involved.. This is a key 🗝️ indicator, and it's physics equivalent is the 4 D tesseract 4:21

[@GitaKamath]

Michio Kaku Sir please take a Holiday ❤😂❤

[@GitaKamath]

In India philosophy merges with Physics and Religion ☯️ as encapsulated by Sikhism, for example that gives an alias for the Big Bang as "Ek Onkar" = (+1+i0).[Real is Positive].

[@GitaKamath]

In Arabia 1+i0 is represented by Al Awaal, the Planck Time 0+, representing both God and the Universe as interchangeable paradigms

[@AdityaAgarwal712]

"Worlds Greatest living Mathematician" I see what you did there.

[@chriswebster24]

*there

[@AdityaAgarwal712]

@@chriswebster24 thanks.. Noted!

[@mistersunny3636]

Ahaha! That sequence took me a second. Nice one! (12:33)

[@emilpysenisoncrack420]

Could I get some clarification?

[@emilpysenisoncrack420]

@Chinmaye Last name Well now it's obvious. Thanks

[@shadaabansari6654]

The urge to solve this problem is directly proportional to the amount of work already in hand.

[@segmentsAndCurves]

exponential*

[@joriskylie6857]

What exactly is the problem?

[@felosrg1266]

The classic "To big to fail" problem

[@patricknez7258]

Nice!

[@qwerty11111122]

sunk cost fallacy

[@ielmosTTR]

"One of the world's greatest living mathematitians" with your photo that is then uncovered is genius

[@DesTr069]

Yeah, that part was hilarious

[@eekee6034]

Yeah, it cracked me up! :D

[@yungmfjames]

i’m an english teacher and you didn’t pass the test

[@jarrett754]

@ttrouble’s animations I can appreciate the thinking, it’s an interesting path to explore

[@ielmosTTR]

@ttrouble’s animations why should 1.0 be classified as even? I can't understand your thinking honestly.

[@RSLT]

Look forward to seeing a Riemann Hypothesis video by you. I believe it will be fantastic. Your insights on such a profound and challenging topic would be incredibly valuable. I've always admired your ability to explain complex mathematical concepts clearly and engagingly. A video on the Riemann Hypothesis would be an excellent addition to your content, and I'm sure many others would benefit from and enjoy it as well. Please do it!

[@shadyceddy6509]

Fun fact: We are not mathematicians but we got interested by this.

[@amirpakravan4389]

People that know math are are mathematicians and also if thay do math they are mathematicians

[@justinerek779]

ikr

[@rayanhaq8552]

I am

[@motherkhapudang3938]

Hmmm

[@fnxrz7513]

@@amirpakravan4389 shut up u ruin the vibe

[@colebrew]

"Pick a number" -"Uh seven?" "Seven? Good choise!" -"WHAT THE-"

[@JosephAR513]

BRO😂😂

[@fixqo]

Everyone chooses 7 cause 7 wins everytime lol

[@Byokie1]

SAME

[@DaisyCoreXD]

Lol same

[@sunset_anything1875]

I think it’s 3

[@erayx8726]

Hahaha the part 12:34 where he shows himself while saying "One of the worlds greatest living mathematicians..." and then showing Terry Tao, was a funny little touch :D Appreciated.

[@NosePaker]

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

[@happysoul941]

@Ragnar Odinsson With due respect, that's not math. That's a combination of intuition, practice. Intuition part is a rough guess. Practice part is again two parts. The first part is making up for the judgement of error by using the physical organs do the needed adjustment, and the second part is fine tuning the guess made in part one by incorporating the learning from part two. It's not only cats that do that "math" anyway. All living organisms do!

[@happysoul941]

@Ragnar Odinsson Nothing specific to cats. May be you love cats way too much. A human does more calculations when intercepting a pass from his team mate 100 meter away. Running full speed, accounting for opponent players tackles, evading them, timing the jump perfectly, with just the adequate force, moving his body perfectly just in time, with just the right force into the right direction to pass it to another. That's not math. That's intuition. Be it a human or a cat.

[@lukasvozak7698]

Exactly same xD... Wholesome

[@Jigustar-9]

3x + 1 = 1 because 3x is equal to 3 numbers added to each other and the 3 x's remain a mystery, it could be any number but So far, it is known that all numbers less than 20, eventually reach 11

[@titancox]

0:01 We did this in my differential equations lab as an example of chaos, and here it is in my recommended 3 years after publishing.

[@Liur.]

Mathematicians: *_cries in proofs_* Scientists: *_laughs in null hypotheses_*

[@Liur.]

@@Sinaloabricks hypotheses is the plural 🙄

[@er00ic]

@@Sinaloabricks Who says that we have only the one hypothesis?

[@andrewcramer9200]

Statistician: *does both in bipolarity*

[@paxhumana2015]

Is not mathematics merely just a part of science anyway?

[@paxhumana2015]

@@andrewcramer9200 Bipolar Person: "Finally, someone DOES understand me"!

[@franzpattison]

Can I just take a moment to applaud the animations created for the visual representation of the concepts?

[@markshiman5690]

3blue1brown animations

[@putrycydes]

Thought exactly the same while watching

[@sincicalpvp9252]

yes you can.

[@artificialintelligenceplus1321]

Found the Mathematical phenomenon A very interesting channel - " Artificial Intelligence plus lottery".

[@dimethebloodwolf3034]

“Pick a number, any number.” Me: “seven.” Him: “seven? Good choice.” Me: *quaking* Edit: I made this post yesterday what the hell

[@cofftea]

Same I was shocked

[@TylerMcVicar]

me too LMAOOO

[@minskghoul]

7 is the most common choice of 'random' number by human when asked to chose from 1 to 10.

[@Kirkdi]

But i pick 4

[@salvatoregetlostii334]

Same

[@AidanMmusic96]

The fact that the first 4-2-1 loop was presented as a 4-2-1 pitch class set was beautiful. Great Easter egg!

[@Wissle]

I don't care about math whatsoever but this was incredibly interesting. Amazingly presented, dude!

[@Haxior5506]

Hello Sunset Shimmer! What's up in Canterlot High School? :D

[@Wissle]

​@@Haxior5506 The usual, ehe ;) Maybe we should tell Sci-Twi about it, she might crack this case!

[@Aerma]

If you found this incredibly interesting, I think you do care about math, just not in the way one might normally define "math" in everyday life

[@keshoasubuhi]

Enjoyed being the 200th person to like this comment!!

[@bazsnell3178]

@@Aerma maths NOT math

[@systemMalfunction]

This is kind of video I need to watch first thing in morning to get started with some brain food! You rock veritasium ! Love your channel

[@Pikachu-Gaming1764]

Lol for real first vid i watched at 8:30am 😱 after my tea lol

[@ClassicMiddleton]

Well I'm about to watch this last thing before going to sleep, so I'll be the test subject for ending the day with brain food... Update: it's now 1am. Feeling extra tired after trying to understand that. Oof.

[@videshraj_7NeXT]

Veratasium - Real food for thought . Thanks Ve Team

[@tomrhodes1629]

Here's some more "brain food" for you: There's a much simpler math problem that no one can solve. No one can compute the exact circumference of a circle from a given diameter. Not even the world's most powerful supercomputer can do this. Because, "pi" is an "irrational" number. But as my book explains, "pi" is not irrational; OUR LIMITED 3-DIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE IS IRRATIONAL. Math will never be "mature" enough to overcome this irrational world of limitation. But YOU will be. Some day, in some lifetime to come. God's prophet has spoken.

[@lovepuma6625]

".....that not even the world's best mathematicians have been able to solve. " Me : "Alright, tell what it is, maybe i can solve it. "

[@captaincool9636]

I think it's just 10

[@MP-ut6eb]

@@captaincool9636 42. The answer is 42.

[@NamidaCho]

@@MP-ut6eb no not at all

[@gbsantana9679]

@@MP-ut6eb no, you don't know the answer if the best mathematicians don't know it. You're not that guy buddy

[@MP-ut6eb]

@@gbsantana9679 its meme my friend. Its a meme.

[@ChristofApolinario]

I have an idea for a directed graph at the timestamp [9:02] and here's how it works: It seems that if we try to check every number, calculate that and put in our tree seems like an _overkill._ Instead of using these formulas, what if we invert them? Here I inverted 3n+1 into (n-1)/3; and n/2 into 2n Now let's start with 1 (since it's the lowest number), and let's apply 2n while we're going down. 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 ... Then, in each number in this line, we'll apply (n-1)/3 for each number. If the quotient is an integer, we'll create a branch (i.e. write the quotient to the right of the number). Otherwise, we'll skip it an continue. 1 -> (1-1)/3 = 0 2 4 -> (4-1)/3 = 1 8 16 -> (16-1)/3 = 5 32 64 -> (64-1)/3 = 21 128 ... Now, with those branches, we'll apply 2n as well: 1 -> 0 2 0 4 ----0-> 1 8 ... 2 16 ----------> 5 32 4 --10-> 1 64 --------8---20---...---> 128 ... 40 ... ... And so on infinitely! (Yeah, I know it looks complicated...) But I'm not sure if all numbers belong to this tree, so I'll leave this for anyone wants to find some patterns or somehing who could generalize with it. Oh yeah, I haven't given it a name, I'll call it an "Inverted Graph" instead. There you go!

[@DasSkelett]

Your "one of the world's greatest living mathematicians" joke totally killed me.

[@lukelively8380]

I was looking for this comment lol

[@HungryTacoBoy]

Same here. I thought it was very clever.

[@JamesAccountStuff]

* You're , btw I am better than you

[@MightyHashBrown]

@@JamesAccountStuff not you’re but ok

[@Sleepy_Joe]

I immediately knew this would be in the comments as well lol.

[@danielwitham1791]

"use Benford's law for tax evasion" Got it

[@ujjwal2473]

next they'll invent another law for you to follow

[@jackrobinson9403]

Ffs even when you break the law you gotta follow other laws, huh? ):

[@von...]

@Soul Seeker appropriate name for someone who works at the IRS or on some other auditing team lmao

[@von...]

@@jackrobinson9403 I guess "only break one law at a time" spans between the laws of our society & the laws of mathematics lmao don't try to divide by 0 while smoking weed kids

[@shamsandharia123]

Most tax verification algorithms are having the same function in the root file patch 🤞

[@thoughtsandtariffs]

him: "pick a number, any number." me: "eight.." him: "seven? good choice!"

[@sarahsanchez150]

5... 😭😭

[@KratonWolf]

Me: 0. Him: ok, if it's odd, × 3 + 1, if even, ÷ 2 Me: I think you just broke your calculator.

[@savathunthewitchqueen8299]

@@KratonWolf yeah. 0 really isn’t even or odd, so your just stuck

[@adcgdsin9320]

@@savathunthewitchqueen8299 and even if you do plug in zero to 3n+1, you go back to one.

[@iteratedofficial]

Ikr... I picked 4...

[@FocusLRHAP]

3:47 5 is the odd number with fewer iterations than the others. 15:09 Maybe because 0 loops to itself? Nah! There's no connection. It could be because -1 is the solution for (3x+1)/2=x, it will never reach -4 like the 1 reaches 4, resulting in 3 loops instead of 1 on the negative side.

[@emay4r]

I like how you asked us what colors would represent odd and even numbers before making this video. And according to the results for most people the odd numbers would be red and even numbers would be blue just like they are in this video.

[@babyyoda5074]

ahhhhh

[@_ikako_]

i guess the adage that the average person is an idiot is true then

[@julesgenrev6574]

The only thing I honestly understood

[@tonydai782]

@@_ikako_ I mean it doesn’t really prove anything does it? Color as experienced by us is purely qualitative, numbers don’t really have innate color, but we can also designate such a property if we are asked to, it doesn’t make us idiots.

[@_wetwillyinc]

@@_ikako_ proud even = red gang

[@kg4wwn]

We need to have every high school math teacher put this on the whiteboard for the extra credit exercise and see which previously undiscovered kid makes a breakthrough because they don't know that they aren't supposed to be able to solve it.

[@legitvone4575]

Well the first thing anyone is gonna do is look it up online and they'll find it's a well known problem. But yes it sounds like it would make for a fun problem to look at regardless.

[@Duplicitousthoughtformentity]

Can’t wait for Matt Damon to solve it!

[@technomage6736]

Solve what though? 3x + 1??

[@kg4wwn]

Oops, I just realized I conflated the stories of Carl Gauss and George Dantzig in my head. We don't need to do this in schools as extra credit, we need to leave it up on boards in college so that everyone who arrives late thinks it's homework.

[@alexokin6819]

Its on d worldwide blackboard called footube

[@jeremiahwitvoet8892]

i told this to my professor and we skipped the whole period trying to solve the problem

[@melekkelebek9219]

Lucky you

[@melekkelebek9219]

That is actually lucky for skipping a whole period

[@dipakkakotidipakkakoti4420]

Thanks for the idea I wil use it

[@AJ-ho1jv]

Ur definitely a person that I wish I have in math class

[@Smsm-ti3cc]

I should try that

[@BarkEaterJ]

I'm noticing something interesting in the video from 15:48 to 16:02. Notice the "rain" of curves flowing from right to left, and one large curve that slowly moves down. When I first saw this, it reminded me of the movement of particles on a cymatics setup as the frequency was changed. The static image at 16:02 reminds me of interference patterns in waves and ripples.

[@RiderGeats]

Imagine being a Math Teacher and you gave an entire class an activity 1. Solve Collatz Conjecture 3x+1 (10 pts.)

[@BrianHartman]

The issue isn't solving it but proving it. :)

[@brokenwingbird2552]

It's not a problem, it is a pattern. There is no solution. This is literally the formula for how all life grows, 124875 this sequence repeats infinitely, with alternating "branches" of 36363636 also repeating infinitely.

[@peregrina7701]

I once had a professor set the proof of the Boltzmann equation on a midterm. That proof exists but for a nonmathematician/nonphysicist (I was studying materials science) it was a beast. The equation is s = k * ln (m). Looks simple doesn't it? That was twenty years ago and I'm still traumatized. Mad props to mathematicians.

[@ItsSchwifty]

Smart in class: *Gets 10pts*

[@davidyansky6605]

He/She would be barred from further teaching due to academic cruelty beyond comprehension.

[@AshenElk]

What blows my mind is when this stuff is demonstrated graphically the patterns become easy to see with my eyes. I don't know why maths is so beautiful.

[@LadyMysanthrope]

Because maths are the language of the universe.

[@mickodillon1480]

@@LadyMysanthrope Facts.

[@pasaamvmaker5251]

Why did the math book look sad? Because it had too many problems! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mickodillon1480]

@@pasaamvmaker5251 LOL

[@johnjeffreys6440]

How is it a problem if there's no equation.? No = symbol.

[@sammcdonald4]

Shows a picture of himself. “One of the world’s greatest mathematicians…Terry Tao” Then includes Terry. Lol

[@GummieI]

Yeah that was so good

[@syedfaisal9544]

😂, That's was funny , He's also good scientist tooo

[@dreamer097]

12:33

[@Cube_Box]

@@dreamer097 thanks

[@rgmjr]

Haha. I came to look for this. Haha.

[@ConstanceMorosco]

Your videos are really helpful, I'm learning a lot from you Keep up the good work!

[@gleniojr]

I'm still laughing hard from the "greatest living matematician" joke. You're awesome, Derek.

[@CleverMetaphor]

I read this before it happened... It was good lol

[@plebiain]

What's the timestamp? I must have missed it while watching through ;-;

[@martyo1983]

@@plebiain @12:34

[@plebiain]

@@martyo1983 Thank you!!

[@clxxxvii.]

Thanks, Lori

[@deepakhdraws]

Greatest mathematician in the world.... You got me in the first half, not gonna lie😂😂😂

[@HideFromIt]

Every comment getting hearted :v

[@itismethatguy]

Ikr lol

[@sajayrrr]

?

[@galloubianis5471]

@@sajayrrrhe is talking about the time in te vid were he just showes a pic of himself and saying the Greatest mathematician in the world....

[@ParvezAgain]

That bald guy smiling but dying inside "Finally can express my sufferings" lmao

[@ghostoftheuchiha526]

Haha

[@heimdall4148]

You wanna know how he went bald? 3x+1

[@MarylynnGiard]

Thank you for your tutorials, I found your channel very helpful.. Great work

[@parvizsattorov2411]

Looks like a good formula for generating Mountains in a virtual environment.

[@SparinglyIsDumb]

Ye

[@kalucardable]

that's how they make roller coaster rides

[@mosab_faozi]

Perlin noise: am I a joke to you?

[@-morrow]

not really, mountains aren't created by random processes.

[@bmwheel1263]

If you use a decimal the number will go for ever as eg: 1.23 you would x3+1 =4.69 4.69x3+1 = 15.7 the decimal number will always be multiplied by 3 leavening you with a always odd decimal. If you start with an even decimal the decimal will keep getting divided by 2 until the decimal meets 1 then it’s will continue to rise. Adding a decimal is a way to bypass the number having to turn even every time you times the number by 3 and add 1. You are welcome for me solving it.

[@MonsterPianoPlayer]

I love the work you do in your Videos. Keep up the excellent work! I just wanted to officially say that I Solved the Collatz Conjecture at 3:34 AM, September 26th, 2024. I also solved it in the easiest way possible, and simple enough for kids in school to understand! It is now Solved without any doubt. I put in that extra time that I needed to figure it out, and who would of ever thought that I would of solved it with just a 1 and a 2. : ) Enjoy your Day!! ☺ MonsterPianoPlayer 😊

[@abhinandanmalhotra8519]

The Animation level of this Channel , unlike Collatz Conjecture, is going up everytime !

[@murilokleine]

I know right? I hope the animators get decently paid, these graphs can be a pain in the brain to animate.

[@Shinkajo]

Literally you are still alive ,scrub

[@xen32]

Infinity episode animations flashback

[@abhinandanmalhotra8519]

@@Shinkajo Thanks...Yea I am Alive and really happy to see scrub who calls others scrub !

[@Shinkajo]

@@abhinandanmalhotra8519 I'm definitely a scrub too.r Takes one to know one😜

[@gopiharwani5765]

You could see the pain in the eyes of prof. Alex. He spends 20 years on this problem. 20 YEARS.

[@MrAshtute]

There's a man in dire need of a life.....

[@AMP_7]

Yet... It would be nice to have a unchangeable objective for 20 years, something to dedicate your life on, something to challenge you daily, keep you intrigued, engaged, energized ! It's, in fact, a good thing. Painful, yes, but good thing :)

[@novatime3214]

in 20 years he realised his wife had left him, and he had wasted his life

[@MrAshtute]

@@novatime3214 it wasn't an entire waste...his wife left him 😁

[@KokeBeast23]

Obviously not all on this one problem

[@AlissaLong-i7h]

You always simplify the hardest concepts!

[@tankerct]

"Pick a number, any number." *thinks of five. "Seven? Good choice." Oh, alright then.

[@philippe2121]

4

[@Lilac_Kunzite]

Lol 5 X 3 + 1 = 16 ÷ 2 = 8 ÷ 2 = 4 ÷ 2 = 1

[@Lockhart2000]

I bet he picked seven because that's the number that would have the highest percentage of viewers start the video thinking he was a mind reader.

[@pm146]

@@Lockhart2000 7 is the most commonly picked "random" number from 1-10. Could also be described as the most seemingly random number from 1-10.

[@Lockhart2000]

@@pm146 Exactly.

[@callmeandoru2627]

10 years ago, my dad told me If I study hard enough, I can solve even the most complicated Math problems in the world. Now that was a f*cking lie

[@jongyon7192p]

Your dad was SOOO WRONG it's not even funny lol Godel did his theorem WAY before 10 years ago, and your dad must have missed the note, huh?

[@sushimshah2896]

@@jongyon7192p what was the Godel theorem (or maybe you can link the video)? I only remember that I had seen it on this channel or some other channel a while back.

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

@@sushimshah2896 Wikipedia is some of the best existing things ever, probably the best.

[@jongyon7192p]

@@sushimshah2896 Godel's incompleteness theorem 1 and 2. For any system of logic (or at least the one we use?), there will ALWAYS be a problem that is unsolvable. We will never know if the set of logic is fully self-consistent.

[@PMA65537]

Tell him you're working on choosing his nursing home.

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

Derek: "Pick a number." Me: "Four." Derek: "…He's too dangerous to be left alive."

[@keldrean]

Four is my lucky number

[@justajobro1266]

Mista: ....

[@ndjs]

@@justajobro1266 I was waiting for that

[@cenaytopaloglu2779]

He got me at 7 tho :/

[@raverecage]

I choose 0 and my computer went skrr...

[@ClavisVanitas]

As a bystander with not much mathematic skills, this looks like a personal grind for a community of nerds Im kinda into it

[@jaydaandjaymie8293]

Job interview: Employer: “Name your monthly salary, we will multiply your intended monthly salary by 3 then we will add 1 dollar. If its an even number we divide it by 2 and if it’s an odd we again do 3X + 1. Job applicant: “Sounds good to me!”

[@WaterMelonIce1010]

Tell him the salary is 27. You’ll be rich

[@gokulsharma9902]

@@WaterMelonIce1010 no no tell him that your salary is 9663 coz it rises all the way up to 27,114,424.

[@zafinger8779]

@@gokulsharma9902 but it all comes down to 1 unless the employee finds the number.

[@Swarthy.]

Inf money glitch Just kidding one day u will start getting 4 bux a month... Then 3... Then 2... Then 1... They 4...

[@assemelabd9800]

How can someone solve that question

[@cryofrostrs3856]

I love on how people immediately pointed their fingers to the Soviets for an unsolvable problem

[@toolaazy]

I go to Confucius

[@KENDRICKREVIEWZ]

@@toolaazy And Confucius says

[@anmoldeepsingh9281]

@@KENDRICKREVIEWZ I am confusion, this is kansas, why this arkansoo, america eggsplain

[@KENDRICKREVIEWZ]

@@anmoldeepsingh9281 😭😂🤣😭😂🤣

[@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559]

@@KENDRICKREVIEWZ no more numbers jumping on the graph

[@jetstreamsam9580]

The class: 3+5 The homework: 3 times the square root of 4 The exam:

[@drawingtutorials7296]

Exactly we go over short division then the exam is like (2a+1b)/10 the times by 10

[@kassimasinia3314]

For real the homework and class work are like 3 x 2 and the test is like calculate the diameter of the sun and multiply it by the amount of water molecules are in a single bottle of water.

[@Smdday._]

Homework equals 6🕺🏾

[@HorrorGirl-tb2yo]

@@Smdday._ Dang it! I was gonna say that!😂

[@krayon1034]

The answer is six

[@tristanpoole8924]

P(reach 1)=1−(0.18) n Summary of the Equation Where:𝑃(reach1)P(reach 1): Probability of reaching 1 from any starting integer. 𝐷=0.82% D=0.82: Probability of a decrease. 𝐼=0.18=0.18: Probability of increase or no change. 𝑛 n: Number of transformations.P(reach 1)=1−(0.18) Summary of the Equation Where: 𝑃(reach1)P(reach 1): Probability of reaching 1 from any starting integer. 𝐷=0.82D=0.82: Probability of a decrease. 𝐼=0.18I=0.18: Probability of increase or no change. 𝑛 n: Number of transformations.

[@f9658]

3x+1 is easily solvable when you rearrange the numbers into 3x1+ which spells out “exit”, therefore you won’t need to worry about the problem.

[@MetaDude]

Ngl I audibly giggled

[@zettelkastendev3760]

take a note of this guy over here, lmao!

[@romips9839]

You want a field medal mate?

[@artificialintelligenceplus1321]

Found the Mathematical phenomenon A very interesting channel - " Artificial Intelligence plus lottery".

[@Professional_Lozer]

I was so inspired when i first saw this video. I’d always think about it. And this year, my math teacher had each student teach their own lesson at the end of the year. I chose this conjecture because of this vid. I used this vid as a source, i watched it like 20 times, and I’m so inspired by your channel. This vid is 2 yrs old as i write this, and will probably get buried in all the comments but i still want to write this for the small chance you see this. so if you are reading this, thank you for inspiring little minds like mine. ❤️❤️❤️

[@RoastedToaste]

I’m reading this

[@-SYRIEN-]

Me too lol

[@mrpampers]

Cool

[@Draaay]

We'll be liking your comment until it reaches him.

[@RoastedToaste]

Fun fact, I was the first like :)