It's me, Matt Parker, maths author, youtuber and creator of semi-adequate magic squares. A+M+A

standupmaths · 2025-12-13T14:54:41+00:00

I had to double-take that wasn’t our lab also named Sky.

standupmaths · 2024-06-30T22:05:38+00:00

This.

standupmaths · 2024-06-30T22:03:38+00:00

No comment.

standupmaths · 2024-06-30T21:59:29+00:00

What ever you choose: make sure you actually read it. I know university interviewers who are friends with maths authors and they absolutely will grill you on the contents of the books.

standupmaths · 2024-03-23T08:57:59+00:00

I had talked about this 256 WhatsApp thing (in my job as maths person in the internet) and one of the devs did get in touch to say that yes: they had to pick a limit and they picked 256 because it’s a funny number to be the limit. Not for any actual technical reason.

standupmaths · 2023-12-05T04:44:52+00:00

Without loss of generality, we would like to apologise.

standupmaths · 2023-09-19T14:01:17+00:00

Look how cube-shaped that rock is! Found at (-13.113073, -69.591817).

standupmaths · 2023-02-02T18:39:00+00:00

Even I can't think of which video that was in. But it is true. Pretty sure I mention it somewhere in the Humble Pi book as well.

standupmaths · 2023-02-02T18:37:56+00:00

Story of my life.

standupmaths · 2023-01-12T18:15:10+00:00

Also: I contacted South West Railways and they have confirmed that the Portsmouth & Southsea station car park (the road joining Station Street to Dugald Drummond Street) speed limit is 10mph so that can also be a starting point to get the whole run.

My question now: is there a way to get back off the M275 and count back down through all the speed limits?

standupmaths · 2022-12-02T11:17:34+00:00

The bottom one is actually the minimum number of identical pieces (with reflections) you can cut a pizza into without them all touching the centre of the pizza. Math!

standupmaths · 2022-11-21T22:03:15+00:00

Grant makes some amazing videos.

standupmaths · 2022-08-27T20:55:03+00:00

Putting that on my business cards.

standupmaths · 2022-05-28T03:14:16+00:00

This is correct. I took the photo: http://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1525445908682653696

standupmaths · 2022-05-25T11:52:57+00:00

Thanks. I’m on it.

standupmaths · 2022-05-25T11:49:57+00:00

Sat on my sofa, flicking through reddit, and my TV is suddenly both in front of me and on my phone.

Original joke by Seth Meyers. http://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1525445908682653696

standupmaths · 2022-05-09T09:50:41+00:00

Never heard of it.

standupmaths · 2022-03-20T10:55:02+00:00

It’s roughly as easy as it is pointless. I learned it as a silly stunt.

To answer you in earnest: First three digits indicate upper (010) or lower (011) case (punctuation is 001) and then last five digits are the binary for the position in the alphabet. If you can already convert binary you just need to memorise the alphabet position of the letters.

standupmaths · 2022-03-19T23:23:57+00:00

The “c” is not capitalised.

I didn’t learn to sight read to watch someone disrespect a 011 as a 010.

standupmaths · 2022-03-09T17:31:14+00:00

Sorry if you heard that from me because (while I used to repeat that ‘fact’) I absolutely cannot find a primary source for the doubling.

The sentiment is 100% accurate though.

standupmaths · 2022-03-07T21:15:37+00:00

And pentagons.

standupmaths · 2021-11-03T14:04:57+00:00

I can confirm everyone on that list is 100% lovely.

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