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Landmark Numbers: early release and bonus footage (Patreon)

Published:
2020-08-25 10:53:51
Imported:
2026-06

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This is a two for one. ONE: The main video will be released publicly in about three hours from now. But I thought you might like an advanced look.

And if you do want to buy the book: I have a favour to ask. We are testing a new system where Maths Gear pushes pre-orders to Warehouse. We think it is all working but it would be great to give it a 'real-world soft test' so if you do fancy ordering Tim's new book, can you do it in the next three hours and let me know how it went? I'll be sat here the whole time, staring at my backend.https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/how-to-make-the-world-add-up-signed-hardback

TWO: We recorded some bonus landmark numbers just for Patreons. https://youtu.be/14K7dhf2w9M

Or rather: we filmed too many so we would definitely have some left over. I'll be honest, they are the more unusual, nerdy ones, including:

- Matt's mega-metres.- Total budget of the NHS.- Beds are 2m long.- How much is 1 m^3 of water.

Thanks for your support which made this crazy video possible. I hope you like the new animations! We are yet to name the orca or the dinosaur. Suggestions welcome.

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Landmark Numbers and Bad Number Analogies

You can pre-order Tim's book How to Make the World Add Up now! https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/how-to-make-the-world-add-up-signed-hardback Watch Tim Harford talk about the Stork-Baby correlation on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-d1ApBTFw Here is the current Landmark Number recommended toolkit (yours may differ). - population of the country you live in - 'people days' per year in your countries of choice - GDP or total government budget - heigh of some buildings you have seen - a human lifetime is around 30,000 days - million/billion/trillion seconds More about Tim Harford: http://timharford.com/ Huge thanks to The Vintage Red Bus Company for lending us one of their fantastic buses. https://thevintageredbuscompany.co.uk/ "Asteroid the size of a bus hurtles past Earth" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroid-the-size-of-a-bus-hurtles-past-earth-9323762.html CORRECTIONS: - We were in front of a long version of the original Routemaster bus which I believe was technically 29.91 feet, but we were told 30 feet and that is an easier unit of measurement. - Let me know if you spot any mistakes! Thanks to my Patreons who mean I can hire a bus and then pay someone to animate a dinosaur walking behind it. Here is a random subset of those fine Patreon People: Ben White Jacob Hartmann Nikola Studer Morgan Butt Alan H. Kragar John Lewis Glenn Watson James Hall Philippe von Bergen https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths As always: thanks to Jane Street who support my channel. They're amazing. https://www.janestreet.com/ Filming and editing by Trunkman Productions https://trunkman.co.uk/ Additional camerawork by Ben Westaway Animations by William Marler https://www.wmad.co.uk/ Music by Howard Carter Audio by Peter Doggart Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback

Comments

Adam Keyte

Looks like you two are standing approx. 1/6th the length of an Olympic Swimming Pool apart.

Matt Parker

I did spend quite a while trying to find an OSP we could film at as well. The idea was that half way through Tim would say “you know I still don’t feel safe, I think we should be further apart” and then we cut to us at either end of the pool. But there were none nearby where we could safely film.

Adam Keyte

I guess the next question is how many OSPs there were in an area the size of Wales (or Belgium)?

Matt Parker

I think first we need to know lunch boxes per bus.

Simon Pain

A question not related to maths by why 2 microphones each? Is it just backup or something fancy?

xje4

I've preordered the book but I haven't received a confirmation email.

Matt Parker

Purely back-up. We filming this a week and a bit ago when there were unpredictable thunderstorms predicted (I know). Which means that we might need to move all of the cameras and kit around at short notice. And some of the cameras were not staffed. To avoid the risk of one of the audio receivers moving too far away, or being turned off, we both had a spare microphone on which was recording locally. Thankfully we didn't need those recordings after all.

LifeSizeTeddyBear

The bowl of petunias go with a sperm whale, not an orca! Hopefully the YouTube commenters are not too bothered by that. 🙂

Matt Parker

Surely YouTube commenters would not take issue with a niche aspect of nerd culture‽ (And besides: this is merely a second data point for which sea-creatures bowls of petunias appear with; we can't say anything about those they do not appear with.)

Matt Parker

Cheers. My database dev is looking into it as we speak.

Fuat Baran

How high is "super-high" shipping to the US? Can you compare it to something? Don't want to fill out an order of magnitude form and enter an address just to find out. it should be the same price to anywhere in the US, no?

Matt Parker

Yes, it’ll be about £20 (around $26) for shipping which is the same cost as the book itself.

Lyam

Using the link on mobile wouldn't allow any text to be added, laptop worked fine though

Peggy Youell

I'm outside of your time window, but my order went through with no problems.

AuntieSash Hazlewood

Things went smoothly until I saw the US shipping. Will this be released to our market later?

Matt Parker

Yes, it will be out in the US in February 2021 (under the title The Data Detective). Hopefully once coronavirus subsides the cost of shipping across the Atlantic will fall as well.

Matt Parker

Ok, we found what was going wrong and fixed it up. There will be a batch lot of confirmation emails going out later.

Arnim Sommer

In Germany, the next bigger areal comparison item after a football field is the Saarland. What is used in other countries?

Lyam

Motorola G7 Power, opened in Chrome

Nicholas Sturm

Volumes and weights: 1L water = 1 kg To Us Imperial: 1gal ~ 3.75 L 1 kg ~ 2.2 lb 3.75 * 2.2 = 8.25 -> 1 Gal water ~ 8.25 lb Many drinking liquids are similar density to water, so 2l Soda ~ 2kg ~ 4.5 lb, Gal milk 8.25 lb 12 pack soda (US 12oz) = 144oz / 128oz ~ 1.2 gal ~ 10lb 2 Cups (8 oz) = Pint = 16oz (US) 2 Pints in a Quart, 4 Quarts in a Gal, 8 pints in a Gal, 4 Pints in a Growler (US beer vessel) More Beer Math: Half Barrel = 15.5 gal 1/6th Barrel = 5.16 gal ~ 5 Gal ~ 20L ~ 26 kg (6kg keg) ~ 60 lb 1/6th barrel ~ 40 half L pours .5L ~16.9 oz ~ Pint

William C.B.

Peter Piper picked 2 gallons of peppers. A team of two oxen can turn a furlong in a day, which is 10 acres, thus can plow a mile in 8 days. Corruption level: The US promises 30000 people per district but provides 700000 per distict. Canada promises 18000 people per level but provides 125000 per district. Oliver Cromwell promised 26000, The Queen of Scots promised 8000, and Parliament began with 3000 free persons(not in jail); and now provides 100000 per. Corruption values double due to universal suffrage. Setting up: how many letters can a single person read in a day, how many letters will a district write to a representative in wartime or crisis? When does accountability cease and fan mail begin. Doomsday clock. We burn 93 million barrels of crude oil per day, we have a global reserve of 1.4 trillion. With corrupt government making it impossible to install a solution. Less than 50 years to replace every internal combustion engine on the planet...

William C.B.

Corruption value The US began with 65 seats for 2.1 million people. 1793: the first census provided 105 seats for 3.5 million every 10 years they took a new count and reset the house. 1802: 142 seats 1812: 182 seats 1822: 214 seats, Connecticut had 9, Delaware had 2. 1832: 242 seats. 1912: counted 91 million but instead of 3030 they provided 435. 1913 the income tax amendment invalidated representation. 435 represents 14 million. 2012: counted 314 million, this should return 10276 seats(as 30000 divides into the population of each State). US corruption value = 435/(10276×2). It is different in Canada and the commonwealth. Minister's are tasked with taking the census personally. Ontario started with 1.5 million people and 82 Seats. Toronto now has 2.6 million and 25 seats. The BNA act has a process which relates the growth back to Quebec's own, as 65 bears a ratio to the rest Canada. So today Quebec should have 18000 people per distict, while Ontario would have 22600. 223 Ministers to British Columbia 193 Ministers to Alberta 51 Ministers to Saskatchewan 644 Ministers to Ontario 471 Ministers to Quebec 6 Ministers to P.E.I. 42(137) Ministers to Nova Scotia 22 Ministers to Newfoundland 34(108) Ministers to New Brunswick 2 Ministers to the Yukon 2 Ministers to the North West Territories 2 Ministers to Nunavut Canada's corruption value= 338/(1692×2) U.K. corruption value depends upon what era you wish to compare but against Cromwell it is better than Canada's. I have never done the mathematics for Australia.

tiruman

1 yr ≈ π *10^7 sec