Aaron Numbers - Numberphile

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[RealClassixX]

Writes joke article, which lets him meet both the most famous mathematician of the century AND the athlete the article was about.
Wow.

[beliasphyre]

"That's perverse, but let's do it."

Exactly what I like to hear from a mathematician!

[Klostream]

What a fantastic story - loved the twist at the honorary degree ceremony!

[darnellyiadom]

Who else thought this video was going to be about the factorial of 715 based on the thumbnail?

[duryeal]

This video tells an amazing story. I love it.

[tropezando]

4:38 "That's perverse, but let's do it."

This is the raunchy numberphile content that I subscribed to see.

[cody]

If you're just a baseball fan, 715! isn't all that misleading. It was the NY Daily newspaper headline, and probably the most famous of them.

[shawnweddle]

This was probably one of the cooler stories I've ever heard

[ianmoore]

The fact that Erdos and Aaron were in the same ceremony
what an absolutely crazy moment

[paillote]

This story is just too good, come on tell me Brady made it up! Every minute the story and the mathematical properties got more and more interesting.

[AgentM]

I thought it was going to be, judging by the title:

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... and I see no interesting properties (yet)

[niklashalonen]

Amazed by how unpredictable this story is

[gamespotlive]

My grandmother heard the name Hank Aaron from the video and asked me about it. And the moment I paused the video was accidentally 7:14

[culwin]

I found another interesting property.
If you subtract one from the other, you get 1.

[themadtexan]

3:49 That might be the most 1974-looking guy I've ever seen.

[ArnimSommer]

So - you got an Erdös-Number of 1 out of a joke? Fantastic!

[tomfieselmann]

One of the reasons I admire Numberphile videos started from a wonderful article about Paul Erdos in The Atlantic magazine sometimes during the 1990's. I love baseball and softball, so this was a really great video. Thanks - so much!

[retepsemaj]

There seems to be a rogue factorial in the video thumbnail.

[Ubersicht]

"That's perverse, but let's do it!"
Sounds like a herald of discovery ^^

[joshalexander]

"just looks like a new baseball". Heart breaks