Darts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

Grant Sanderson from 3Blue1Brown joins us to discuss an intriguing puzzle with a shrinking bullseye.
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Videos by Brady Haran
Grant did the animations for this one!

Special thanks to our friend Jeff for the accommodation and filming space.

[bluebrown]

Thanks for having me on, this was a blast!

[cupass]

my parents:
"are you ever gonna get a girlfriend?"
me:
"it's possible, it's just probability zero."

[thekingoffailure]

Grant : Has unnecessarily expensive and fancy compass

Also Grant: Uses random piece of cardboard as a "straight" edge

[DeepFriedOreoOffline]

"Consistency is only a virtue if you're not a screw up."

Grant Sanderson - 2019

[gz]

One benefit of inviting 3blue1brown is that he does the animations himself.

[arvasukulkarni]

Consistency is only a virtue if you’re not a screw up.

-Grant Sanderson, 2019

[Thomas-vncr]

Everybody gangster till the animated personified pi shows up.

[roberte.o.speedwagon]

Lightning never strikes the same place twice


3B1B: *Nay, but my darts shall!*

[zachstar]

One day I’m gonna prove Grant wrong and find the real number line out in nature.

[parv_verma]

"I'm gonna try to make this a worse shot"


*hits the middle*


3Blue1Brown Suffering from Success

[michaelheimburger]

This is probably the best demonstration of a useful application of higher dimensional math that I've ever seen. Compressing a series of 2D coordinates into a single nD coordinate to get the probability of the whole set. Awesome!

[mrbangkockney]

I’ve had an unhealthy relationship with e since the late 80s.

[PregmaSogma]

I felt so weird watching this video, because 3blue1brown is talking but, with his face

[francescoghizzo]

So, now the most calm and relaxing voice on youtube has also a face

[killermelga]

Using a compass on a glass table with no protection below it. That mad lad

[rpyrat]

"I'm gonna try to make this a worse shot"


*proceeds to shoot exactly the same spot Merida style

[arthurdequeiroz]

"Infinity War was the biggest crossover in history"

Brady Haran: Hold my Brown paper

[DarkWolfseternalfire]

I am not a mathematician, most of the stuff on numberphile goes over my head but it is just SO satisfying to watch.

For example, I have no idea what e is, I didn't understand anything past explaining what the game is, but it is so damn satisfying to watch, it's like wizardry

[utopes]

I wasn’t sure whether I should make a pun about the vertical position of the very first dart thrown. Heck it, y-naught

[joshbone]

I feel like we enter Grant's brain every time his animation appears