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Neil and Chuck for 2024
It’s really cool to see Chuck feeling the wonder of learning.
Always funny when Neil puts Chuck on the spot with maths - rather him than me 😅 👍
I love when Neil records from this room. It's my favorite of his rooms 😂
Chuck’s aptitude for quickly catching on to complex topic is next level.
Neil and Chuck are an entertainment and knowledge gold mine. I'm so happy that I stumbled upon this channel. 😂
“How often do you count things and end ar exactly one hundred?” “When there’s one hundred things to count” LOOOL
This is also known as Benford's law. Wikipedia has a good entry about it. It's used in detecting accounting fraud. You should also look at the entry about Zipf's law, which is even weirder.
As an engineer I’ve worn out two calculators and the #1 key always goes first. A physical manifestation of Benford’s law?
That sentence cleared it up for me: Since we are always counting from one, there is a bias towards the lower numbers. And you can even see that bias if you go further: 2 is the second-likeliest initial digit. 3 the third-likeliest and so on.
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Top Comments (10)
Neil and Chuck for 2024
It’s really cool to see Chuck feeling the wonder of learning.
Always funny when Neil puts Chuck on the spot with maths - rather him than me 😅 👍
I love when Neil records from this room. It's my favorite of his rooms 😂
Chuck’s aptitude for quickly catching on to complex topic is next level.
Neil and Chuck are an entertainment and knowledge gold mine. I'm so happy that I stumbled upon this channel. 😂
“How often do you count things and end ar exactly one hundred?” “When there’s one hundred things to count” LOOOL
This is also known as Benford's law. Wikipedia has a good entry about it. It's used in detecting accounting fraud. You should also look at the entry about Zipf's law, which is even weirder.
As an engineer I’ve worn out two calculators and the #1 key always goes first. A physical manifestation of Benford’s law?
That sentence cleared it up for me: Since we are always counting from one, there is a bias towards the lower numbers. And you can even see that bias if you go further: 2 is the second-likeliest initial digit. 3 the third-likeliest and so on.