The Most Evil Number (Belphegor's Prime) - Numberphile
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Beastly Primes: oeis.org/A131645
Belphegor Primes: oeis.org/A232448
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Hey, I've got a question... Do centrist primes where both sides are prime exist?
*Facepalm*
That's one hell of a number.
777 like wtf
It's prime, so be thankful it isn't 666!
Exactly.
The most demonic number is GEOMETRY DASH
What kind of talk is that?!
Now I understand why Brady says that mathematicians love finding ways to be useless.
Yes
usefulness is waaay overrated anyway
When did he say that?
I once heard rumors of one mathematican (don't recall his name) who was so proud of his theorem having no practical application at all, that when the US air force (or the NASA, don't remember exactly) eventually found an application for it he instantly retired from mathematics and went to exile.
@@lonestarr1490 Wasn't the Inventor of knot mathematics trying to find something purposely useless?
for me the most evil number is my account balance :/
dang you have 1000000000000066600000000000001 dollars?
@@Marcsine you forgot the -
$ -1
??.
"The famous prime number hunter" I love these guys.
i laughed so hard!
"Makes you wonder who hell's ambassador to England is..' "....nigel farrage, isn't it?....."
Mamon, close enough I guess :D
Another fun number is the following base-36 prime: 10000000000halloween00000000001. I was able to find only two more primes of this kind: 10000000000000halloween00000000000001 10000000000000000halloween00000000000000001 Are there more? In the same spirit, a nice base-32 Numberphile prime: 1000000000000numberphile0000000000001.
Woahh
I appreciate the effort ^_^
Is that for real?
@@aleksapetrovic7088 Yes. If you convert the prime number 48873677980689263911084361359049059985440899073 to base-36, you'll get 10000000000halloween00000000001. :)
Truly delectable
The most evil number is -1/12
infinity dang
Ramanujan spanks himself...
Ramanujan approves this.
Looks like viewers will never forget and forgive this whole -1/12 misunderstanding )))
That's some eldritch lovecraftian stuff there!
best numbers for spooktober
much spoopy
Love your picture!
*goosebumps theme*
0:38 one simple "1" and one fancy "1" is the real reason this number is evil
IKR
I000000000000066600000000000001
false.
Thank you Brady, this video made me happy for some unknown reason.
You’re welcome.
100000000000066600000000000001 Number of 1's = 2 Number of 000's(on one side) = 13 Number of 6's = 3 The number of digits of the same number are all prime! So spooky Brady!
Professor Padilla, your enthusiasm made this extra awesome. Fun bit of research!
I love the difference in his tone when he says "right" to denote position and when he just says "right" as a scouce verbal tick.
I show this to my New Testament class every year when we study Revelation, and it is one of their favorite videos. Thank you for all your amazing content!
What I find even more amazing is that there are OEIS entries for each of these sequences.
Love all your videos numberphile!! You bring a contagious enthusiasm to learning about numbers that I didn’t know was possible :)
Belphegor is the ambassador to France. That's it, that is all you need to know why this number is evil.
I had no idea something like this existed. Only evil numbers are numbers that you shout out loud, miss out on lunch and dinner, takes hours to complete saying
Thanks for the Halloween costume idea! I'm going to dress up as the Belphegor's Prime! Numberphile always has the best costume ideas!
I love when Dr.Padilla shows up in a Numberphile video!
How about a parker prime? Basically any number proven not to be a prime number
Well, there's the Grothendieck prime, 57, which Grothendieck once gave as an example of a prime number
Well there's 2^(2^5)+1
@@samarnadra Those are called Pseudoprimes
Carmichael numbers?
false.
I adore his calling the numbers "guys"
But bel-figure means beautiful number!
underrated post
Dean and Sam are on their way to hunt this
Nigel Farage? LOL!!!!!!
So spooky 👻
Boo!
the sad thing is that there are quite a lot religious people who take that seriously and really believe that numbers can be evil. :-(
@@peterp-a-n4743 that's why you should always start meth with 786 ;)
@@numberphile Now I know, Numberphile replies to girls with a science degree only!
@@peterp-a-n4743 Believing in numerology is a sin in Christianity.
I wonder if a naughty prime has a safe word to use when its being spanked by a dominatrix.
Possibly "Re(s) = 1/2"
Donimatrix
Numberphile already covered "sexy primes " on another video
Love the naming convention mathematicians have used
Cool video Brady! I've been thinking about a maths problem... Say you have a Venn diagram with 2 groups to start with. How can you make all areas represent the size of the corresponding subgroup? For example: A ∩ B' has 1 element, A ∩ B has 2 elements, A' ∩ B has 3 elements. In this example A and B contain 3 and 5 elements respectively, so B should be 5/3 as big VISUALLY. But how close to each other should the centres of A and B be such that the area of the intersection represents 2 elements? I.e. what is the function relating the relative sizes and overlap to how close the centres should be? (...and then 3 groups...) It would be really cool if you could do a video on that! Thanks!
I thought it would be 0, the bringer of death to all numbers, and the foundation of calculus. Brrrrggghhb
Well, I guess, but they don't make numbers into what they are, unless you do a handful of equations
@Sergio Díaz Nila as well as division
All the noughts!
This is harassing the number zero.
false.
Most evil number Number I scored in exam : *that's cute*
He said n*ughty! Really fun video with Tony.
I was so shocked they didn't beep that word D:
How did you comment 10hrs ago when the video is 55 mins old
@@busimagen listen to Hello Internet podcast if you want to know more. :)
@@yogitshankar6348 comment* you forgot the question mark
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YES! Tony is the bees knees, please do more stuff with him!
Okay
"He's an amateur number theorist." Music to my ears.
I actually knew about this number. But now I know even more about it. Thanks Numberphile.
I've heard people say math is evil, but I think they might be on to something now...
no way! he said n*ughty!!
shhh, Tim.
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4:09 I might have known someone would've entered this sequence into OEIS!
Literally watched the Elementary Episode with this Number yesterday
Tony Padilla is AWESOME
0:25 this joke has aged well 😂
Some very deep stuff. N the presentation just wow
I've never been this mathematically spooked!
Don't forget the 1s on the end being like devil horns. And 4, my favorite number, means "death" in Chinese and Japanese. And my favorite number in terms of it being evil is 51904. You're going to have to try to hex it back to know why.
They found a tablet saying 616 is the devil's number
And it's actually the numerological value of the name Nero. It has nothing to do with the devil.
They've talked about that in their video about 666 :)
Is it an iPad?
@@ExarchusDivision stone tablet
does it have flappy bird on it.
"1000000000000066600000000000001 is the number of the beast" - Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (pre-release) 1982
Finally, it’s about a specific number again!
I don't know how you would verify this, but I am now extremely curious to know which prime belongs to more prime "groups" than any other.
upvoted for that farage joke
B O T C H E D B R E X I T
Unsubbed for the same
Sad because there are no happy bell figure numbers
From a mathematical pov u sound like that mom against monster drinks but from a casual pov u definitely make sense
Looks like I’ve got my Halloween costume sorted.
A tenuous relation, but not so much more than the numerology: The Call of Cthulhu was first published in 1928.
>found video >13 hours ago Nice
Spookiest part: The idea that the decimal representation is the Real True Form of an integer.
And I thought the most evil numbers are 13 and 666
Numerologyphile more like it.
While this is a Halloween video, a lot of interesting mathematics can fall out of just playing with numbers and looking at patterns.
Or just numberphile for short. It isnt called mathsfile after all.
From someone who loves studying ancient history and people’s past beliefs, to be fair - 666 wasn’t originally known to be the devil’s number. 6 in numerology is known to be a number that brings balance after the “destruction” of 5 as an odd number that topples the more “4”. Pretty fun to read mythological texts in this light because there’s a lot of numerology symbolism in there, and even today, some literary authors may still use that symbolism. It was Christianity in the Middle Ages that made it all “evil” and like that, when numerology, even if the idea of your birth date matching a number personality is false, is still useful for being able to see different themes of symbolism to understand the story of your life.
In this episode of Numberphile: numerology and base-10-ism.
Happy Halloween!
You have two ways to write a one: either a vertical stroke or a vertical stroke with top stroke and bottom serif. I only write it with the top stroke. I guess a vertical stroke with only a bottom serif (inverted T) would be the most evil way to write a one.
"Naughty" Prime.... That pun is going to haunt me, lol.
Help! Could someone help me find this youtube video? It was about a Math mystery.... someone in the past had mapped all the known concepts of Math to a grid, I think like basic +/-* and complex numbers, and things like them. On this large grid there were compliments of one side of the grid that appeared on the other side - and this person discovered that there was an "area" of Math not yet discovered due to one or more missing panels on the grid - that did not have their own compliment! It was very interesting and I wanted to give the link to someone, but now I can't find it anymore.
I'll try
I wonder if all there is some kind of overall "Constraint Conjecture" for the primes such that given an additional set of constraints on the primes- e.g numbers with symmetric digits- it will spit out how N many primes satisfying it there are 1) 0: None 2) 1: exactly 1 will (even primes emit this since only one is 2) 3) Finite M 4) Infinity I mean, you've got everything from Mersenne primes to these 'political' ones, etc. It'd be interesting to know if there is, in principle, an algorithm that when given a definition for a subset of the primes will determine if that subset is finite or not.
I think Tool's and Dream theaters time signatures and time signature changes are pretty evil if you ever want to learn to play their music
That under the breath farage was hilarious
I Need That Scary Music Because I Just Want To Play That Music Next Halloween
Scariest video I've seen for Halloween so far
I don't know why, but by only reading the title i assumed that the topic was about a prime number
Me too, odd isn't it?
0:24 Hutgin and Belial (or Turkey and Italy) are swapped ;)
42 is not the meaning of life. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, universe and everything.
The second best trick the devil ever pulled was making people believe 666 is unlucky instead of 999.
What baffles me, is, why the ”Belphegor’s Prime) is not just called straight-up: ”Lucifer’s Prime”/”Satan’s Prime” 🤯.
I'm legitimately crapping my pants right now
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. :D
Seeing how he is depicted historically, his depiction in Persona 5 makes sense haha
The guy who does the demon designs for Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, Kazuma Kaneko, is extremely loyal to mythology.
We all know the scariest number is Fortnite stealing your favorite chereters from movies
That's not a number.
Also, the following is known: The sum of reciprocals of all natural numbers that don't contain the string 666 is finite. It follows (because the sum of harmonic series diverges): The sum of reciprocals of all natural numbers that do contain the string 666 is infinite. (Of course, there's nothing special about the string 666; the same is true for any finite string of digits, and any base. For example, the sum of 1/n over all numbers whose base-10 representation does not contain the the string 1234567890, or whose base-13 representation does not contain the string 42, is finite.)
woah, we DON'T know there are an infinite number of palindromic primes?
The spookiest bit of this video was when Tony said "Nigel Farage"
He didn't mention that 31 is also a prime and so is 13. I'm assuming this was uploaded for Halloween.
"The Vatican wants to know your location..."
Why would not knowing if there are an infinite number of palindromic primes necessarily mean we don't know if there are an infinite number of Belphegor primes? Belphegor primes are a subset of palidromic primes, and the number of candidates that could be Belphegor primes grows at log(n), whereas the number of candidate palindromes grows at sqrt(n).
I think he meant if we knew there were infinite BPs we would obviously have been given infinite PPs as a bonus. But as infinite PPs is still in the “unresolved” column, that’s a clue that no-one has cracked BPs of course.
Brady you've gone off the deep end of the math ocean.
That happened years ago.
With Covid-19 spreading around the world, could you explain the "R-number" or R-Nought?
It sounds like there's a lot of different categories of primes. Is there a prime(s) that is part of the most categories?
Notice that Belphegor's Prime has 666 in the middle
They really tried to make it more "evil" by saying the number "six, six, six" instead of "triple six" or "six hundred and sixty-six" to be less more "evil".
brown paper has more math than my math teacher
Didn't they already talk about this a few years ago
You can see patterns in lots of things if you look hard enough
He is no longer in his old office. He has since moved. huh
In secondary school I got the nickname IFA which you could take as 0x1FA. In decimal it's 506, so my name is basically an evil number.
B(506) is a prime
Dude looks like if Ivan Perisic became a mathematician instead of a footballer
Prime ministers try to find primes.
can you do a video on BIG FOOT?
It always seems to be unknown if various types of primes have a finite quantity. Can you tell us about types of primes that definitely are known to have a finite quantity?
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Is Mammon the ambassador to just England or the entire United Kingdom? And who is Hell's ambassador to Canada?
What about the most evil mathematical object/concept? the Jacobson radical seems kind of sinister to me...
perfect for Halloween!