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Euler's Identity (and other maths) explained in 5 minutes I made this!
/Delurk...

My fast, rambling talk containing Proper Maths™ from Ignite Bristol (held on the magnificent SS Great Britain). Sod Marcus de Sautoy, hard stuff is fun. Also contains 120 digits of pi recited in under 15 seconds.

(WrittenBittern, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:11, Share, Reply)

Fab. Love it!
More!!
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magictoast, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:36, Share, Reply)

that was..........
very good Sir!

would love to see more.
(another way for gnomes to say hooray ..is having a growl up Auntie Susie's front brush, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:43, Share, Reply)

My brain popped.
(loego, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:48, Share, Reply)

Enthusiastic and Interesting
/geek
(skintagain, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 13:14, Share, Reply)

Bravo

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SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 13:18, Share, Reply)

Fascinating... but I didn't understand any of it.
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Tusk knows where you live, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 13:36, Share, Reply)

Excellent - got lost fairly quickly but could still follow along.

I take comfort in your mathematical ability by thinking you're one of those guys who can do all that but yet can't work out how much change you'd get from a tenner if you bought a chocolate bar and a bag of crisps.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 13:46, Share, Reply)

I am one of those people :)

(Magnus, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 14:02, Share, Reply)

Numbers are my friends
Alas I'm one of those annoying people who will hand over £10.14 if the bill is £3.59 (and I don't have a 5p). Which it will be for a chocolate bar and a bag of crisps in a service station.
(WrittenBittern, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 14:04, Share, Reply)

That
was so much clearer and easier to understand that when I did this at uni! Brilliant!
(Magnus, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 14:01, Share, Reply)

BEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARD!
Just thought.... I'd mention that you have a beard... I'll shut up now. Sorry.
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 14:14, Share, Reply)

I used not to have a beard...
... but my hair grew inwards from my head and came out of my chin. bittern.org.uk/random/Oliver-hair.jpg
(WrittenBittern, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 14:20, Share, Reply)

Yay
Enthuastic mathematician

_{Edit: I'm playing a gig in Bristol tomorrow (Saturday) if you're interested, they're always good fun (linky)}
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Funtime shabba, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 14:27, Share, Reply)

excellent work!
fun and educational!
aside:
I used to be able to do pi to 150, but not that fast! :)
(MrKane 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 15:15, Share, Reply)

Even though I know it's pronounced 'Oil-er',
I still always pronounce it 'You-lar'. Top video, woo!
(Coin Operated Boy is reading the new Bravissimo catalogue on, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 21:04, Share, Reply)

was actually the first of several things i learned from that video
I've always pronounced it you-ler.
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kingofpork is the king of pork, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 1:32, Share, Reply)

logged in
just to agree with this. Seen it written down many times but always assumer it rhymed with ruler.
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miamistu snagglery, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 15:22, Share, Reply)

I didn't know Goethe was pronounced Go-ur-ter until the Al Murray in Germany programme on BBC Four.
(And I did follow the maths - I choked on Pure & App Maths A Level - woo! My brain still works 28 years later)

Similarly, a German colleague - despite living here for years - thought pomegranate was pronounced pommey-gran-ah-ta
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Tchmilfan, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 18:26, Share, Reply)

The square root of minus 1 is j I tells you... bloody pure mathematicians :-)

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z0mb13e has a bee in his botnet, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 17:40, Share, Reply)

Anybody...
got this with subtitles - or a transcript without all the panting!? It's like a math geek's porno movie!!! I was waiting for some cheesy 80's music and the mention of giving your cosine a good working... How's your radians feeling now? Heh heh...
(Da' Vane, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 18:13, Share, Reply)

coming to a cinema near you in 2011............

Seth Rogan is Rainma
(whorsepower needs an amusing sig, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 22:15, Share, Reply)

Rainman
bastard! my eagerness with the 'enter' key ruined a damn good jok
(whorsepower needs an amusing sig, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 8:57, Share, Reply)

but made ^^^^^^^^^^^ that quite witty

(whorsepower needs an amusing sig, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 8:58, Share, Reply)

Fuck me
That was amazing.

I'm brighter than most of these other fuckers and caught probably 85% of it, but I still wanted to watch it all again.
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ousgg is not seeking approval, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 0:47, Share, Reply)

Fabulous.

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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 13:36, Share, Reply)

Excellent presentation
and superlative lurkage!
(eagerly awaits part 2)
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RedHouse over yonder, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 15:19, Share, Reply)

More stuff than an entire series of Horizon
That was be-woot-iful. Godel next, please.
(NoPotPourri putting the poo into pooters since, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 17:07, Share, Reply)

Gödel is a bit easy
I was thinking of it, but then someone pointed me at Gödel in 2 minutes, so I'd have to do other things to bulk it out. I was thinking I'd move onto interesting applications of Infinity for the next one?
(WrittenBittern, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 20:15, Share, Reply)

Horizon
Oh, and the random gurglings of my 11 month daughter have more scientific content than Horizon does these days.
(WrittenBittern, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 20:45, Share, Reply)

What
did he say?
(zombiedeadbloke, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 18:12, Share, Reply)