I can confirm that the Lemon name has not died out.
@Murgablodazor695 жыл бұрын
If you bleed do you bleed lemonade? Im sorry
@ceruchi20845 жыл бұрын
LOL
@chadd9905 жыл бұрын
* insert lemonparty joke here *
@skrounst5 жыл бұрын
If the world gives you Lemons, I hope they are sons.
@Glendragon5 жыл бұрын
yet
@KubeSquared5 жыл бұрын
As an only son of an only son this video triggered my existential dread.
@agfd56595 жыл бұрын
You better have at least 10 kids
@magichands1355 жыл бұрын
Time to get to it
@paulgoogol26525 жыл бұрын
time to step up that baby game
@teddycouch93065 жыл бұрын
@Joshua Grahm I mean.... it is irrational
@SharayaYT5 жыл бұрын
Well i am the only daughter so my name will die with me in my branch lol
@jibran84105 жыл бұрын
How about we add a " -1 " which kills the brother next to you. That ought to spice things up.
@oz_jones5 жыл бұрын
Jibran they are royality, afrer all
@LaGuerre195 жыл бұрын
I didn't think there was anything out there that could "spice up" a Lemon Party, but you found it! Hurrah!
@z-beeblebrox5 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the Cain variable
@Wild4lon5 жыл бұрын
@@LaGuerre19 'hurrah' xD
@hpekristiansen5 жыл бұрын
In my family the second son always kills an uncle.
@ayush.kumar.139075 жыл бұрын
"13 sons, all boys." What a Genius, I would have never guessed!
@KL_Stereo5 жыл бұрын
DID YOU JUST ASSUME etc
@ILOVEBIGCHUNGUS5 жыл бұрын
It's emphasis not explanation
@matteo-ciaramitaro5 жыл бұрын
@Carey Hunt You mean 2 of the sons were boys too
@ayush.kumar.139075 жыл бұрын
@@matteo-ciaramitaro you didn't get the sarcasm there
@matteo-ciaramitaro5 жыл бұрын
@@ayush.kumar.13907 i was going a level deeper. You missed the second level.
@warhawk39725 жыл бұрын
2 James Grime videos in one day? I'm in heaven.
@James-zs3vm5 жыл бұрын
3
@General12th5 жыл бұрын
@@James-zs3vm Double Heaven.
@wobblysauce5 жыл бұрын
Seems like a scam.
@pudicio48955 жыл бұрын
We are unworthy
@andrewlouie25 жыл бұрын
3 if you check out standupmaths
@qwertyuoip12345 жыл бұрын
“17’s a number” Indeed.
@ceruchi20845 жыл бұрын
Doesn't he say "the number" as in, "the number of kids"?
@wilwumn3925 жыл бұрын
Lol this has 17 likes. No offence but I’m not changing that.
@titwarbler5 жыл бұрын
* rolls a zero for the first generation. game ends *
@leftylizard90854 жыл бұрын
I've played the game myself. Even in just the first incarnation of the game wherein there are 3 0's, a 1, a 2, and a 3, I still either end up losing the very first round or end up with too many circles and not enough pieces of paper to avoid taking out an entire rainforest.
@themobiusfunction2 жыл бұрын
No zeros: *game never ends*
@Triantalex Жыл бұрын
??.
@courtney-ray5 жыл бұрын
The entire video I was thinking about the scenario he called the one exception. So I’m glad he said it!
@roy26155 жыл бұрын
I thought about it a minute or so before he said it LOL
@dijek55115 жыл бұрын
The proof wouldn't help with that case either since x = G(x) would just be x = x which provides the restriction on x
@mallardbro74875 жыл бұрын
I read your comment before the video, forgot about your comment, and then went through the majority of the video thinking about the exception. I'm also glad he spoke about the exception.
@MeneerBobRoos5 жыл бұрын
@@dijek5511 The proof still works out. You take x=G(x), which is true for all x=>0, you take the smallest x (as before) so the probability is 0.
@MrDannyDetail5 жыл бұрын
@@MeneerBobRoos On the line x=x wouldn't the smallest place it touched be negative infinity? Then again a negative probability might not have much meaning.
@nymalous34285 жыл бұрын
I did something kind of like this once not too long ago when I was doing some personal research for a campaign of a roleplaying game that I was running. I wanted to have details of all of the families in some of the towns I had created for the game. I had a couple dozen family names for each town, and I worked up some rules for intermarrying and having kids (resolved by rolling dice). I noticed that eventually most of the family names went "extinct." It was not because they did not have any children, but none of their children were male (and in these fictional towns only males carried on the family name). So it didn't matter that every couple had children, what mattered was whether the children were male or female. I didn't even have to go through that many generations to have a large percentage of the names wiped out, maybe four or five. (And, no, I never did use the research or the fictional towns, the campaign fell through, people were too busy. I continued to do the math for a few weeks anyway, just because it was interesting, but eventually I had to give it up... the record keeping of thousands of individuals and their offspring was too tedious.)
@kailomonkey5 жыл бұрын
The maths and spreadsheets/notes are always way more interesting than life :)
@sarahchicago5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps that's why arranged marriages were and are so common in some societies. Much easier to ensure continuation of a family name with planning than with dice rolls.
@nymalous34285 жыл бұрын
SarahChicago Arranging a marriage is only a part of the process. The rest is up to nature, such as whether any given child will be male or female, or even whether the married couple have any children at all. The biggest problem I ran into during my little "experiment" were couples that only had female children; since the family name was carried by the male children, this occasionally resulted in a family name not being passed on. But I can see how arranging a marriage could at least help.
@pussinboots99834 жыл бұрын
This is interesting, especially in world building. I knew I should consider the family names.
@josephlombardo12465 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised the Dr. Grime didn't fully explain the intuition behind his equation. That is the essence of the problem, and much more interesting than the graphical solution to the problem. He should start with x is the probability that a line goes extinct starting with one individual. There is a 1/6 chance it ends right away, 1/3 chance there is one son and that son's line will go extinct with the same probability x, 1/3 chance there are two sons each with probability x of their line going extinct so probability of both going extinct is x^2, and 1/6 chance of 3 sons, each with probability x of their line going extinct so probability of all three going extinct is x^3. Therefore x=1/6+x/3+x^2/3+x^3/6. The equation seemed to come out of nowhere here.
@Maazin55 жыл бұрын
Joseph Lombardo thanks for clarifying. I had a hard time understanding that. Still don’t get why P(extinct by gen n) = G(P(extinct by gen n-1))
@Stigvandr5 жыл бұрын
@@Maazin5 Yeah, I didn't get that either.
@Joseduarte48675 жыл бұрын
I agree i believe the critical part of this problem was that equation. Thanks for clarifying.
@darrenr37125 жыл бұрын
Also is x^2 and x^3 because the probabilities are assumed to be independent of each other.
@adamsitabkhan54795 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@anonanon96345 жыл бұрын
Vsauce: will we run out of names? Numberphilie: will your name be extinct? I feel lost. What should I do
@Rekko825 жыл бұрын
Start a new game! :)
@CosmiaNebula5 жыл бұрын
Do the math! And that clears your mind.
@Ragnarok5405 жыл бұрын
Just accept it.
@dschledermann5 жыл бұрын
Have a lot of children..
@aurelia8028 Жыл бұрын
steal extinct names for yourself. Then we'll never run out
@joedeshon5 жыл бұрын
Dr. Grimes explains complicated stuff more elegantly than just about anybody. Double his salary!
@NikozBG5 жыл бұрын
Have you ever heard of a channel named 2blue1brown?
@bobus_mogus5 жыл бұрын
@@NikozBG *3
@thebrahmnicboy5 жыл бұрын
@@NikozBG I am pretty sure it is called 3.415Blue2.718Brown
@x3ICEx5 жыл бұрын
0*2=0
@wishiwasabear5 жыл бұрын
RIP Sir Lemon and his noble family. His family name will be remembered.
@Triantalex Жыл бұрын
false.
@elsvanwin68165 жыл бұрын
2 videos with James! Love it.
@adamcrowe83725 жыл бұрын
The family of 13 boys is from my hometown. That’s pretty cool. They did a write up on the family around 2004. All of the brothers served in the military, several in WW2. Never expected to hear Sullivan, Illinois in a Numberphile video!
@chuuuu11315 жыл бұрын
This applies to every name except Nguyen, the last name that will never die.
@ErikB6055 жыл бұрын
@@Peter-q1p7t Because in the beginning there was exactly 1 last name per person -_-
@chuuuu11315 жыл бұрын
@@jshlst Mohamed is a first name
@sam43305 жыл бұрын
@@Peter-q1p7t Yeah, 40% of Vietnamese people are close relatives, that must be the only logical explanation to them having the same surname.
@lobstertexas5 жыл бұрын
Because they keep Nguyinnig. Eyy-o!
@o4_5 жыл бұрын
Omg, there are like 12 people at my school which have that last name, including a teacher.
@noidea25685 жыл бұрын
Wow, I just finished watching the unlisted version and you uploaded it now.
@ProfRonanMC5 жыл бұрын
"A family of thirteen sons, all boys" - well, there's a coincidence!
@douggjoseph5 жыл бұрын
Actually it's not. "All boys" was a needful statement to pre-answer the question of how many girls they had.
@Triantalex Жыл бұрын
??.
@MittGGG5 жыл бұрын
Another video with James? I'm digging it!
@jh-ec7si Жыл бұрын
I was thinking on the first one how lucky he was that he didn't have to awkwardly draw the lines because of how close he made the dots, then the second set lost all hope.
@KillianDefaoite4 жыл бұрын
This video does a nice job of briefly explaining some very deep mathematics. Awesome!
@EebstertheGreat5 жыл бұрын
You aren't guaranteed to go extinct, but the probability of extinction approaches 100% (and equals 100% after infinitely many generations). But even if its probability is 0%, it is still possible to have more kids every generation. That still exists in the sample space, unless every number on the die is 0.
@Shit_I_Missed.5 жыл бұрын
It's not possible to have more kids if a zero is rolled, and if the birthrate doesn't over compensate for the 0s rolled, it's going extinct
@anticorncob65 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing. He probably just said “guaranteed” because for practical purposes, there’s no point considering those possibilities. It’s literally less probable than any positive real number.
@WarwickAllison5 жыл бұрын
Exactly - if the probably of extinction only "reaches" 100% "at" infinity then it's misleading to say "guaranteed". His all-1 die isn't really an exception either, it's just the limit case of something more interesting: the 0-0-0-1-2-3 die reaches 50% at n=1 (since the first roll has a 50% chance of hitting 0), but a 0-1-1-1-1-2 die takes longer to reach 50%. You could for example have a 1000 sided die with 1 on every side except for one side with 0 and one side with 2. Same total probability (1), but clearly it now takes a *lot* longer to get close to 100%. We can keep adding sides making it less and less likely, approaching the all-1 die as the number of sides approaches infinity.
@EebstertheGreat5 жыл бұрын
@@WarwickAllison I think that die is still exceptional in the sense that for every other die with mean 1, the asymptotic probability of extinction is 1, but for this specific die with mean 1, the asymptotic probability of extinction is 0.
@kailomonkey5 жыл бұрын
@@EebstertheGreat This may conjecture that given infinite generations the
@crankstonshnord65915 жыл бұрын
"Sir-Lee Temple" hahahahahaha nice
@johnhooyer31015 жыл бұрын
I only noticed once I saw this comment emphasizing it. Thanks.
@alexandermcclure618510 ай бұрын
Had to read it out in my mind *facepalms*
@sabriath5 жыл бұрын
I had a dream about a variant solution to this problem, and came to the conclusion that you have 100% chance of your name going extinct as long as there is a "0" outcome available on the roll. There is always the probability that you will have all zeroes, but never the probability that a new name is created, so the list is deteriorating. It's similar to the wondering ant on a rubber band being stretched.
@JustOneAsbesto5 жыл бұрын
I've heard the Lemons' family reunions are quite the party.
@cyboticIndustries5 жыл бұрын
nah - i went to one, it was rather a bitter affair
@SJrad5 жыл бұрын
cyboticIndustries I had a sour experience
@LordBhorak5 жыл бұрын
At least in that party, they REALLY take care of the elderly men... maybe because they're the ones that have made the name live on. :P
@agfd56595 жыл бұрын
Ive been to a lemon party too. It's... different than what I expected
@umchoyka5 жыл бұрын
They party like it's 1699
@SightFilms5 жыл бұрын
i've just studied Applied Statistics at college recently, and it was really nice seeing something i learned in this video (the expectancy of a variable according to the probabilities of the outcomes it can be). This is a random comment but it was just nice seeing something i learned actually used in real life haha
@booksquid8565 жыл бұрын
In Puerto Rico (and I believe in many Latin countries) kids receive two last names-mom’s first last name and dad’s first last name, hyphen in between. My kids have a name from me AND from hubby. Kind of changes the game.
@wanderingrandomer5 жыл бұрын
Imagine my surprise at seeing this video fresh in my feed having watched it 2 hours ago.
@LuizBHMG5 жыл бұрын
12:26 such a lovely noise!
@Lizardfiz124 жыл бұрын
was not expecting that expression at 7:09 😂😂 made my night
@ShaunCockerill5 жыл бұрын
The dice with all sides of one gives the average roll of 1, but it also gives the formula g(x) = x^2. It crosses the x=y line at both 0,0 and 1,1.
@ashtondemarse4 жыл бұрын
This video is simplified calculus of infinite series. Just took my exam and didn’t expect to think of this again.
@alex_evstyugov5 жыл бұрын
Oh well. From the title I thought this was actually going to be about your *name*. Which you might well share with a hundred thousand people rather than just your immediate family, and yet even so it might, and indeed likely will, go extinct. Unless it's Smith, Li, or Nguyen. I believe the fancy name for that is "the Galton-Watson process". Wasn't there a Numberphile video on that a couple years ago? I can't seem to be able to find it.
@kimfriedrich97705 жыл бұрын
James's smile of certain extinction made my day.
@TheRumpletiltskin5 жыл бұрын
"a family of 13 sons, all boys" really? All the sons are boys... man, i was confused before you pointed that out.
@menjolno5 жыл бұрын
If you never grow in average, and you always have chances to lose, you will eventually lose all.
@ceruchi20845 жыл бұрын
Thank you! They should have made this explicit in the video. Now I understand.
@WFDConnor3 жыл бұрын
you can go even further and say that if you have chances to lose all, aka each son in a generation has zero sons, you'll eventually lose all.
@trdi5 жыл бұрын
This is great. Interesting topic and very elegant solution.
@coreyburton85 жыл бұрын
Another video with James- this is better than Endgame!
@singularity37242 жыл бұрын
For those interested, you can find out more by searching for “Galton-Watson Branching Processes”.
@MrMineHeads.5 жыл бұрын
Waiting for the Numberphile podcast with James Grime
@EverettWilson5 жыл бұрын
Ohhh, I just realized -- this is the gambler's ruin!
@abj1365 жыл бұрын
It's not only last names that die out. There's an amazing video out there charting and graphing the decline and fall of 'Bob's in competitive sports. In this case it's more a memetic decline than direct children.
@ThisUserHasBeenCanceled5 жыл бұрын
This was very unclear to me. Why multiply the probability by x^1, x^2 etc.? What does that mean?
@Bdoserror5 жыл бұрын
He covers that in the extra bits video
@VivekKumar-nh2dc4 жыл бұрын
3:42 that time lapse's audio is really scary
@TemplerOO75 жыл бұрын
Was about to write a smart comment about the dice with only ones on it and how it will never go extinct but he saw that one coming
@PC_Simo6 ай бұрын
Whenever I read / hear just the word: ”Name”, by itself; I always think of: ”First Name”, by default (this time, included); so, I’m kind of puzzled, why the title of this video didn’t have the word: ”Surname”, or the words: ”Family Name”, or something, like that 😮🤔😅.
@LuisTorres-sq3xj Жыл бұрын
A beaitoful lesson, everything in life is ruled by the mathematics ❤️.
@johnplesia51545 жыл бұрын
Reminescent of a Leslie's Model and Leslie Matrix. I imediately remembered that it depends on one special value (this case average) for the Matrix that either drives the population to extincion or lets it survive.
@MyPisceanNature5 жыл бұрын
One really has to wonder why inheritance by the female line isn't preferred among monarchs. Up until quite recently, there is no question as to who the mother of a child is, genetically speaking. So, if you want to be sure your descendants inherit your assets, leaving those assets to the female lines seems most advantageous.
@robson62855 жыл бұрын
That man can explain maths on a way that is a joy to learn maths! Só great that he makes new numberphiles again!!
@kelvinleung50655 жыл бұрын
Gotta love that galton-watson process
@Vermillionns5 жыл бұрын
What kind of maniac does not close an open parenthesis of an equation in a public video available on the internet...
@michaelsommers23565 жыл бұрын
Not a maniac, just someone whose mind is far above such trivialities.
@Vermillionns5 жыл бұрын
@@michaelsommers2356 No, I'm pretty sure he wanted to hurt people.
@ccmarcus5 жыл бұрын
I won't say, that you calculated the average. You calculated the expected value It's just my addition to this great video. :)
@Empire5265 жыл бұрын
5:36 This is bringing me back to my biology test today(di-hybrid Punnit square)...
@TheAstronomyDude5 жыл бұрын
How did the Victorians calculate the probabilities? How did they decide on the values for their dice?
@TerribleTonyShow4 жыл бұрын
I played the dice game, and trust me, it is time consuming. Thank you Numberphile, for wasting my time preciously.
@Valeriobrogni5 жыл бұрын
Sir Lemon at the top of the family tree ... I see what you did there
@deamon66815 жыл бұрын
Mind sharing your insight?
@Valeriobrogni5 жыл бұрын
@@deamon6681 What?
@MrMW2nd5 жыл бұрын
@@Valeriobrogni mind sharing your insight?
@themonsterodub5 жыл бұрын
@@Valeriobrogni we don't see what he did lol
@Valeriobrogni5 жыл бұрын
It's a lemon at the top of a tree, that's where lemons grow
@AaronSmith15 жыл бұрын
Dang it Numberphile, I'd just watched your last video and was about ready to get back to work and now this...
@Yora215 жыл бұрын
Sir Lemon? That's Earl Lemon-Grab! UNACCEPTABLE!!!!
@ExtraterrestrialIntelligence5 жыл бұрын
make a video on family trees and acyclic graphs
@ditrixgenesis7815 жыл бұрын
I thought, well certainly I could continue to roll numbers, even if the average is 1 or below. But then I remember the infinite forest episode, and think about how it's impossible to get a perfect integer by rolls, because eventually, you'll stray off of 0. So the fact that the chance
@AlexFromTheWoods5 жыл бұрын
As a mathematician, I would like to point out the following: Although the probability of extinction is one in the case of a die with an average less or equal to one, the name could still survive if there's not just zeros on the die. Because if there is at least one 1 on the die, every man could have a son in each generation. The probability for that would be 0 in the limit case, but it would still be a possible outcome. It's actually this strange thing about infinite random experiment: Outcomes may have a chance of 1, and still they are not guaranteed.
@nienke77135 жыл бұрын
The 1 only die also has a different looking graph, as it would just be G(x) = 6/6 x = x, and as such it would just be equal to the dotted line (y=x) on every point, including 0, which automatically makes it the lowest non-negative number where G(x)=x and thus the probability of extinction will be 0, and any die which doesn't have a 0 on it will have a point G(X)=x at the origin and therefore never go extinct.
@Danilego5 жыл бұрын
Two videos today and they're both related! They're also related to being related!
@CheesyBread5 жыл бұрын
While watching this whole video i was so excited that I found an exception to his rule, until the very end of the video where he said exactly what I was thinking. :(
@joshuarosen62425 жыл бұрын
1:06 "...thirteen sons, all boys." what other sort of son is there?
@MultiPenners5 жыл бұрын
A Fruit
@sk8rdman5 жыл бұрын
in the 1860s my great-great-great-great grandfather came to America from Germany with his two sons. Each of them had around 5-10 kids, and each of their kids had 5-10 kids, and each of their kids had 5-10 kids, and so on. Needless to say, the family name is now very common where I live. I don't think we have to worry about the name dying out any time soon.
@Scribblersys5 жыл бұрын
On the all-ones die, the resulting polynomial is the y = x line, and the first point in x = [0, 1] where it intersects itself is (0, 0), thus 0% probability of going extinct.
@NikozBG5 жыл бұрын
Please James, next time actually roll the die, not just only drip it. My inner nerd was slowly dying during the first segment of this video.
@gabeyk95 жыл бұрын
13:45 I was thinking about that one THE WHOLE TIME
@Amythebard25 жыл бұрын
Ive finally found what probability generating functions are used for
@shruggzdastr8-facedclown5 жыл бұрын
This from the Department Of Redundancy Department (@ 1:00): "...a family of thirteen sons -- all boys"! ;^}
@bentoth95555 жыл бұрын
I saw it as clarifying that he had 13 sons but no daughters.
@shruggzdastr8-facedclown5 жыл бұрын
The audio said "thirteen sons" -- sons already implies boys and automatically eliminates daughters; so, adding "all boys" makes it redundant.
@bentoth95555 жыл бұрын
@@shruggzdastr8-facedclown Saying 13 sons says nothing on its own about the number of daughters he may have in addition. Saying "all boys" afterwards does, however.
@michaelsommers23565 жыл бұрын
@@bentoth9555 But the "all boys" qualifies the "thirteen sons"; it says nothing about any other children.
@douggjoseph5 жыл бұрын
@@shruggzdastr8-facedclown : It's not redundant in the least. I have two sons. Nothing in that statement tells you how many daughters I have. Unless I add, "All boys" or "Only boys" or "No daughters" you've no idea that the total number of sons = total number of children.
@MartyWoodcock5 жыл бұрын
My family line's surname ends with me. I have 2 sisters whom have changed surnames. I have 2 daughters and no sons. Chances are, my daughters won't keep their surname when (and if) they get hitched, leaving me as the last to bear my family name. None of my cousins have that family name. Making me, the last of my "kind".
@pussinboots99834 жыл бұрын
Or do you? Find your great grandfathers, then.
@md75565 жыл бұрын
Woah we just had this in school, so this is the first video where i actually know what he will do
@jaredcarter11655 жыл бұрын
2:57 That's actually pretty lucky for an example for the video that the Lemon family stopped at 4 generations; I experimented with this die myself and only went extinct after 34 generations.
@rlamacraft5 жыл бұрын
Jared Carter maybe they did multiple takes, throwing away any that didn’t die off pretty quickly
@Quick_Castyyy5 жыл бұрын
@@rlamacraft they cut the vid at 2:23 "to get a 0"
@HeavyboxesDIYMaster5 жыл бұрын
I used the same dice to determine how many kids to have.
@invisibledave5 жыл бұрын
I tried this but unfortunately all sides of the die had a "0" on it.
@antonfalu1235 жыл бұрын
It's not guaranteed to die out, but the probability is 1, which is different. It is not impossible that the name will die out, but the set of such sequences has zero measure. James knows this of course, but it's a fun and subtle difference!
@motivsmaras5 жыл бұрын
7:13 the best part ever, he is so happy 7:13
@digthewarmth5 жыл бұрын
13:51 The moral of the story is make sure everyone in each generation has at least 1 son. That's why royals are obsessed with having a son.
@ceruchi20845 жыл бұрын
Poor Henry VIII couldn't manage.
@mikasa34275 жыл бұрын
I would like the $4.83/£ exchange rate mentioned at 5:00.
@MaksiZockt5 жыл бұрын
the single one exception makes very much sense actually.. if the chance of no children is 0 then the Graph of G(x) touches the y = x line twice.. once at (0|0) and once at (1|1), really neat trick converting the probabilities to a polynomial
@effuah5 жыл бұрын
This not only touches twice, it touches everywhere
@davidgillies6205 жыл бұрын
Generating functions of dice are fun. Maybe Numberphile could do a video on Sicherman dice. The Wikipedia proof using cyclotomic polynomials is dear to my heart (I wrote it).
@batfan19395 жыл бұрын
I just watched two or three minutes of the sofa moving problem because I hit the next button on this video without realizing it. I thought it was a flashback, and was wondering why it ran so long DX
@orange90895 жыл бұрын
8:07 As soon as I heard co-efficients I got flashbacks to my A levels and I could feel where this was going
@StichyWichy215 жыл бұрын
Further Statistics. Probability generating functions.
@orange90895 жыл бұрын
Stich21 Yeah boi
@stormysamreen70625 жыл бұрын
Me: *cheats on exam Me: *fails Me: 2:21
@aaronbeans334 жыл бұрын
3 surnames in my family lines died out Bell, Fletcher & Chidley.
@mrnicomedes5 жыл бұрын
OH NO. That's the probability of penultimate extinction! I really really hope he says those words in that order.
@Ragatokk5 жыл бұрын
You need to explain why there is not a probability that you roll greater than 1 on average with a die that has 1 as the average. I would have assumed since it is random you could get an infinite amount of 2's rolled in a row even on a dice with less than 1 as the average IE 0-0-0-1-2, however unlikely it seems possible. I would assume the probability would be trending towards 0, but it seems like it would never hit 0.
@innocent60835 жыл бұрын
Cant you get extremely lucky and just roll 1s Infinitly many times even though your probability of doing it is extremely low
@Joseduarte48675 жыл бұрын
You can get lucky by rolling arbitrarely large Number of 1s but not infinitly many. Thats the definition of probability
@Edgelordess5 жыл бұрын
I love math but why do I have to find all these interesting math videos right before I go to bed?
@eXCeL25235 жыл бұрын
Just learnt this from Stochastic Processes
@toadounetlovesyou5 жыл бұрын
No comments before today? Was this video unlisted by mistake?
@numberphile5 жыл бұрын
No, it was uploaded a while ago but was a secret - it'll be formally published later today, but you are seeing it early because you're a loyal viewer who clicked the links from the connected royal baby video!
@questimegaming5 жыл бұрын
@@numberphile No royal baby videos here. Just a loyal viewer :D
@stormysamreen70625 жыл бұрын
The whole video is just Simon doing family planning
@mathmachine42663 жыл бұрын
I did a calculation for this awhile back. I wanted to know, if you start out with one sapling in Minecraft, what is the probability you run out of trees at some point? I came up with 7% ish. Too bad I forgot how I came up with that. EDIT: no wait, I remember now. Assuming P(0) is the probability that someone will have no children (drop no saplings), P(1) is the probability that someone will have 1 child (drop 1 sapling), P(2) is the probability that someone will have 2 children (drop 2 saplings), etc etc. Now you just have to solve for X, given that P(0)+P(1)X+P(2)X²+P(3)X³+P(4)X⁴+...=X. It's a polynomial equation. If there's currently only one person in the family (one tree), the probability of it dying out is X. If there are 2, the probability is X². If there are 3, the probability is X³, and so on. I'm pretty sure there are loads of special cases, but the only one I was able to find was when there's a 100% probability of having exactly 1 offspring, in which case the probability is undefined. Which, I mean...if you think about it, makes a lot of sense. Either it is or it isn't extinct in that case. EDIT EDIT: I watched the rest of the video. Hooray I was right!
@StefanReich5 жыл бұрын
I don't see why you introduce the exponents in the first place. And what is x? 7:38
@mr.sweetheart75074 жыл бұрын
I have both my dad and mom's family names. Same for my brother and sister.
@SheezyBites5 жыл бұрын
I don't understand how anything can fail to be guaranteed if it has any 0s. Certainly the chances on any individual step would be small, astronomically so in most high number cases, but extending to infinity it would have to happen eventually because it will never stop iterating. The chance of rolling all 0s is never itself 0, so surely in an infinite number of attempts it must eventually happen.
@DS-xh9fd5 жыл бұрын
You should have mentioned this fun fact: if the average is exactly 1, then although it eventually dies out with 100% probability, the expected time to die out is infinite!
@walterrobinson97965 жыл бұрын
2 videos in one day?
@ckq2 жыл бұрын
5:00 I mean basically the geometric mean is always less than the arithmetic mean