It's always a treat to see Dr James Grime know every constant to 10+ decimal places
JPerm
Hi everyone! I'm one of the authors of the paper. First of all, special thanks to James for helping a bunch of random friends from another country publish our first paper, AND making a Numberphile video about it!
If anyone's interested in a challenge here are some things we didn't manege to prove:
-Is the constant transcendental?
-What happens to the sequence if we pick our starting constant f1 to be a rational number? Does it always get "stuck" at a certain point?
Also feel free to ask us anything, we are very glad to see people commenting about their own research and experiments on the formula!
And if you feel you made any new or interesting discovery about the formula or constant, please do post about it!
bglecer
James is always telling constants they're his favourite but he keeps dumping them for newer, hotter constants
jv
“I’ve got a new favourite constant” (with a beaming face of joy). This is the purest form of numberphile and I love it 😍
jonopriestley
Dr. James Grime still looks like the age when we used to solve puzzles on his channel
durvsh
You've seen elf on the shelf, now get ready for James Grime on primes
noahfine
"Pretty important junk"
"We need this junk"
- Haran & Grimes, 2020
GvinahGui
The sobering real-life side of research: ... "Received 16 Sep 2017, Accepted 29 May 2018, Published online: 30 Jan 2019"
pmcgee
“I used the primes to calculate the primes”
DisturbedNeo
I can't imagine being smart enough to see a maths video on YouTube and go "you know what, I can do better than that" and then find a new, seemingly very useful, constant.
jblen
For a moment I though random guys solved one of the most difficult problem of all time. Even if this is not the case, they were very smart!
MattiaConti
A disadvantage for Numberphile is that nobody will write that number in the search bar even by mistake and find this video
shreyansh
Anybody else instantly click when they see James grime?
ItachiUchiha-nsil
OMG ....It's James Grime💚💚💚💚💚....It's soo good to see him back making videos with Brady....
Numberphile you are my favourite channel 💚💚
vivekram
Me to Mill's constant after watching this video: I don't want to play with you anymore.
hewhomustnotbenamed
I found this constant to be regular-level of interesting for a Numberphile video, and then when he pointed out that it turns out to be the same as the average of that easy-to-describe sequence, my mind was blown. That's why I keep coming back to this channel!
trogdorstrngbd
Math teachers in primary school: prime numbers have no pattern.
Every mathematician ever:
You’re wrong but I have no proof
*yet*
SparkeyGames
Nobody exudes more childlike joy at maths than James Grime.
johnathancorgan
2:40 James slightly singing "601 529" made me instantly think about the new emergency number from The IT Crowd
SkyAce
Framed demonstration of Graham's number, by Graham himself, on the wall. My jealousy knows no bounds.
