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Hey!
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How nice!
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How lovely.
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Good evening.
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And welcome to QI,
for a show all about numbers.
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Tonight, we will cross the divide
and go forth and multiply,
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and in addition, we will subtract
lots of points from Alan.
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So...
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Let's meet our four fine figures.
The rational Colin Lane...
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Thank you.
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The complex Sarah Millican...
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the imaginary Noel Fielding...
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and the extremely random
Alan Davies.
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So, if they would like to grab
my attention,
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they can count on their buzzers
and Colin goes...
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♪ One, two, three, four, five. ♪-
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Sarah goes...
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♪ Five, four, three, two, one. ♪
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That's pretty good.
Ah, that's very good. Noel goes...
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♪ Two, four, six, eight. ♪
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And Alan goes...
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♪ ABC, ABC.♪
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So, here is question one.
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Which is the loneliest number?
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♪ Three, four, five. ♪-
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Yes?
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No.
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It's the obvious one,
but it's not that one.
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So, maybe two
is the loneliest number,
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because it's next to the one
that gets talked about the most.
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And do you know what?
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I would make that
entirely a correct answer
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if it wasn't so horribly wrong. No.
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Three is the magic number.
Three is the magic number.
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Well, I've never tried,
but so they say.
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Is it 13,
cos it's quite unlucky,
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so the other numbers
don't want to go near it?
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OK, so it is
an unpopular number. Nought.
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No, it's quite a high number.
So, there's a mathematician... 100.
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- You're going in the right direction.
- And 14. - 200.
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No, we're not going to play
this higher or lower. 101.
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79.102,103,104... 110.
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Yes! 110? It's 110.
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110. Alan gets the point.
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So, now...
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Now, I don't speak now for
the rest of the evening.
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Yep, that's it.
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So, there's a mathematician
called Alex Bellos
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and he wanted to find
the world's favourite number.
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So, he asked a lot of people
and 30,023 people responded.
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And the lowest whole number
that nobody chose was 110.
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- It was everybody's least favourite number.
- Aw.
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So, QI has adopted it
as our favourite number.
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Yay! Yes.
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That was a very, very lukewarm
round of applause.
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You prefer number seven, don't you?
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OK, well, why might
you prefer number seven?
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That's a really interesting thing.
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It's the world's
favourite number. Oh.
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That is the one that Alex Bellos
discovered most people preferred.
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And, in fact, there was
a National Lottery draw
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which rather bore this out.
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The 23rd of March 2016,
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five of the six numbers
were multiples of seven, OK?
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So, there was 7, 14, 21, 35, and 42,
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and the other one was 41
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and so many people chose them,
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you got more money
from matching four numbers
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than you did from matching five.
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So, four numbers you got £51
and five right you got £15.
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When you were talking
about a threesome,
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I was trying to work out
if I've had a sevensome.
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A sevensome?
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I think I have.
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I haven't.
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I have.
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If you can count your pets
then I probably have.
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Doesn't count if they're sleeping on
the bed at the time,
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that doesn't count.
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Anyway, moving on. Now, have a look
at these different numbers.
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So, number one,
anybody know what that one is
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- right there in the middle?
- Er...
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The hieroglyph.
I'm not good on hieroglyphics.
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Pass.
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So, what were you saying, Colin?
You were making a noise.
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You were just making the noise?
I was just making a noise.
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What was the noise?
Err. Yeah. So, that's...
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Weirdly, it's quite close
to the correct answer. Is it? Yes.
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It's a man holding his hands up,
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and he's most likely
called either Huh, or Huuh,
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or huh-huh-huh-huuuh.
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The thing is, there
are no vowels in hieroglyphs
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and we don't know
how it's pronounced,
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but it's going to be
some kind of vowely-H sound,
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and he represents
a million for the Egyptians.
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Oh. I think he's just going like,
"I've no idea how many."
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I think he's lost his keys.
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Someone went, "Do you
know where your keys are?"
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And he went, "I don't know."
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They're on your elbows, mate.
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He basically represents infinity
because to the Egyptians
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a million is a very large,
undefined number.
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A bit like the way we use myriad so
myriad actually means 10,000
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but that isn't how we use it.
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We use it as a symbol
for something huge.
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The Egyptians also had a symbol
for 10,000 but it's just that.
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A bent finger is 10 000 in...
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So, if I ever go to you,
"You owe me..."
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So, if you say something
in parentheses... Oh.
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Then you also owe me 40 000.
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Yes. Yes. Or you're doing shadow
rabbits. Yes!
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Either way, it's a
fun evening ahead. Yeah.
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Let's have a look
at the other ones that we've got,
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other than our Egyptian.
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So, the eye, anybody know what
the eye is, another pictogram?
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Well, because I'm from Australia,
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is it 'rust a weird kind of
Sydney Harbour Bridge, perhaps?
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Oh, I like that.
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Yes. I'll go for five.
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No, it's four, three.
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-1. Hmm, hmm, hmm.
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Two. Zero. Yeah! Zero'? Zero!
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Zero, very good.
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It looks like I'm working you today.
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It's the Mayan number zero.
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Why didn't they just write zero,
the Mayans?
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Oh, because they were very busy
doing a lot of clever things
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for us to find later. Oh.
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They had the concept
of zero by about 30 BC,
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at which time the Romans and
the Greeks didn't bother with it.
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Couldn't be arsed. They didn't have
a number zero. Why's it eye shaped?
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It looks like the eye's
got prison bars over it.
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Like they've outlawed looking.
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No, the Greeks didn't bother with it,
cos maths was more geometry for them,
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so the zero didn't make any sense.
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In fact, we don't get the zero in
Europe until about the 13th century.
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Before that, couldn't be arsed.
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Let's have another look.
OK, number three there.
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Two to the power
of 74,207,281 minus one.
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Is it going to be the highest
prime number or something?
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It is. The largest prime number.
You are on fire tonight.
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It's a Mersenne prime.
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It is the largest one
they've ever discovered
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and it was discovered,
obviously, by a computer.
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Dr Curtis Cooper at the
University of Central Missouri
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set the computer off and then there
was a glitch and an e-mail saying,
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"We found it! We found it!"
went unnoticed for months
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until they discovered it
by accident. It went into spam?
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It went into spam, yes!
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It contains
228,388,618 digits in total.
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It's basically
2x2x2 74 million times...
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minus one.
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That's my lucky number.
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But it's impossible to believe
these things, isn't it,
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that it's not divisible
by anything at all?
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That's...
That's absolutely mind-blowing.
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Mind-blowing, isn't it,
that that's a prime number? Yeah.
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So, the next one, number four
there, eight billion and 85.
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Any thoughts what that might be?
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That's a huge number, isn't it?
Bacteria on your person?
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Oh, gross me out.
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Bacteria within your person?
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Bacteria trying to get
out of your person.
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I've honestly never felt so filthy.
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So, if you were to write out all
the numbers from one to ten billion
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in words and organise them
into alphabetical order,
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this is the very first one
that would be an odd number.
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And that is because eight is the
very first number alphabetically.
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It begins with E.
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Also, all the numbers
beginning with eight
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have to come before the next
number, which would be 11.
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So, it goes eight, eight billion,
eight billion and eight,
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eight billion and 18, eight billion
and 80, eight billion and 88,
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eight billion and 85,
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so, it's the very first
one that is an odd number.
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OK, would it be a problem if
you just explained that again?
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Did you wish to take the news
with you to Australia?
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Look what I brought
back from England,
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this amazing piece of information,
that I still don't understand.
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I'm trying to work out a face
that I can do that would be
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as if I did understand that.
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Were you good at maths at school,
Noel?
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No, terrible.
Why do you think that is?
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Cos I wasn't good at it either.
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It didn't make sense to me.
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You know that whole thing,
a minus and a minus is a plus,
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you know this is a thing?
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So I used to say,
"I don't have four sheep"
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"and you DON'T give me four sheep,"
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"how is it I've got eight sheep
suddenly running around?"
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How have you got eight sheep
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and who on earth put them
into alphabetical order? Yes!
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What about you, Colin?
Did you do well at school?
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Well, I was bullied at school.
Oh! Yes. Everybody.
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A kid stole my lunch
and gave me a wedgie
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and then I decided
to give up teaching, so...
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I like that.
My very last school report,
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you're supposed to
get a nice one at the end
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to send you off into the world
and it just said,
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"Sandra has a tendency
to overdramatise."
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Let's have a look back at the ones
we have left in our number cloud.
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142,857.
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If I tell you it's a cyclic number,
does that mean anything to you?
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No, is it to do with bicycles?
Oh, I like that.
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"How many bicycles in Paris?"
that kind of thing.
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No. So, if you take this number
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and you multiply it by any number
between one and six,
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the answer will always be an
anagram of the original number.
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So, it will
just keep all those numbers.
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Look there, times two,
times three, times four.
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Good noise! Yeah. "Ooh."
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"We don't understand,
but we're going to make a noise."
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This is the beginnings
of subjugation.
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This number is an anagram
of the other numbers.
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"Ooh, numbers."
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When you get to
the magic number seven,
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you can see it doesn't work any
more. It only works from one to six.
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Extraordinary.
Let's have a look at the number 43.
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Anybody know about the number 43?
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What I say my age is.
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Just joking.
Are you older or younger?
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I'm older, yes. See, I was being
polite. Yes, thank you.
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Boys don't mind about their age,
do they?
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Do boys mind about their age?
They pretend that they...
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I don't mind about my age.
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I don't mind about mine.
I'm 38 and proud.
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Nothing wrong with that.
I'd no idea. A year older than me.
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The 43 goes to Friern Barnet.
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Does it? Yep. It's a bus? It's a
bus. To you it's a bus number.
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It's a Frobenius number.
I'm not helping, am I?
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No. They didn't even
give you an "Ooh".
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I'm going to explain it in
terms of McDonald's, OK?
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So, this is a mathematical
problem posed by a German
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called Ferdinand Frobenius
in the early 20th century.
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Let's say it's Chicken McNuggets.
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They are only sold in
multiples of six, nine and 20.
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And 43 is the largest number of
McNuggets it's impossible to buy.
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You could get 41, because you could
have 20 and nine and six and six.
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You could have 42 because you could
have four lots of nine and a six.
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You could have 44, because you could
have four lots of six and a 20.
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You cannot buy 43 McNuggets.
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You'd have to throw some away.
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Not even if you know
Ronald McDonald?
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No.
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Now for question number two
which is aptly about number twos.
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What can we do about
the international poo shortage?
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♪ Three, two, one. ♪
Yes, Sarah.
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Oh.
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I hadn't even thought of that.
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That man in the picture's
very pleased with his. Yeah.
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He's going to need some cream on
after that, I reckon.
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Too much or too little poo?
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Too little.
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Is it animal as opposed to human,
though? Yes, it is.
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So, why might that be a problem?
Fertilisation. Farmers.
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It is fertilisation, it is.
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It isn't so much farmers
but it is fertilisation. Right.
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So, the death of lots
of the Earth's large animals,
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it's had a knock-on effect
on the smaller species
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due to a worldwide lack of excrement
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and it is really extraordinary
because the natural fertilisation
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which you would find
on land with animal faeces,
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it is dropped to 8% of what it was
at the end of the last ice age.
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They're just not... COLIN: So,
it's just animal number twos?
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Yeah. So we can't do our bit? We...
Well, I don't...
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No.
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It's kind of you to offer
but I don't know about Australia
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but they have laws here and...
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And I thought you were going
to be different.
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Oh, I am different but you haven't
looked closely enough.
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So, we need animal poo
and in the oceans it's even worse.
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So, faecal nutrients in the ocean
are estimated at only 5%
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of what they were historically.
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If you think there's been a decline
in the number of whales
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and it was always thought that
would cause the number of krill
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to increase because, of course,
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that krill is the very thing
that they eat,
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that hasn't materialised
because the poo from the whales
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that fertilises the plants
that the krill eats
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is no longer there in
the quantities that it was.
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And it's called trophic cascade,
it's the process by which
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a top predator helps
the rest of the ecosystem.
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92% less poo than there was
at the end of the ice age?
284
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Yeah, on the land.
285
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And 95% in the ocean. Wow.
286
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Now, here's a really crap link.
287
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I'm making some of this up
as I go along.
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What do these things have in common?
289
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So, we've got some die. Die.
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Clearly an English church
291
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cos there's something half-timbered
about it.
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A lava lamp, some neon and...
..Eminem.
293
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So, what have they got in common?
294
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It's the odd one out.
It is an odd one out round?
295
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It's quite a random thing.
296
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Is it anything to do with where they
originated or something like that?
297
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No, they use...
Did you say the word random?
298
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Is it to do with random.
Is it because they're random?
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They're all ways of
generating random numbers.
300
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So the easiest one is
the tossing of the dice,
301
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that's probably one of the oldest
ways of creating random numbers.
302
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People have been doing it forever.
303
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Assuming the dice is not loaded
in any way
304
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then you will get a random number.
305
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Computers can't actually
generate random numbers,
306
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they do everything by a pattern.
It's sort of a pseudorandom thing.
307
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Say you used a computer
to pick lottery numbers,
308
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if you knew the pattern,
you'd be able to cheat.
309
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They don't actually do it.
310
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But you need tables of
random numbers,
311
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they're very useful in statistics
312
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but you can't roll
tens of thousands of dice,
313
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that would be ridiculous.
314
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The very first table which was
in 1927 was created by taking
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the middle digits from
the area measurements
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of 41,600 English churches.
317
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Then there was a company
called Lavarand in 1996
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and they took pictures of lava lamps
319
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and they extracted the data
from those photos
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and they used that to
generate random numbers.
321
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So all the things that
we were looking at
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were to do with the generation
of random numbers.
323
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And the rapper, there was a guy
at Florida State University,
324
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George Marsaglia,
325
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and he created a list of 4.8 billion
randomly produced noughts and ones
326
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by taking a number of rap songs and
turning them into digital files.
327
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So, these are all... I know.
I mean, that he's got the time.
328
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Yes.
329
00:16:14,258 --> 00:16:16,385
Why isn't the dice
just enough for these people?
330
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Presumably because you
need millions of numbers
331
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rather than just, "Ooh, it's a six."
332
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It's not all about board games,
I've just realised. No.
333
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In the past, they used
to use the random selection
334
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as a way of making political
appointments.
335
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They used to use something called
sortition and what it is,
336
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it's random selection,
which I quite like.
337
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People have just suggested it for
the House of Lords in this country.
338
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It might be you or it might be
a member of the audience
339
00:16:39,209 --> 00:16:41,874
or it might be you. That's the
old Plato thing, isn't it? Yeah.
340
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Chosen against his will
because he was the best candidate.
341
00:16:45,873 --> 00:16:47,958
Yeah. The philosopher king.
342
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Here it would be probably
David Beckham or someone.
343
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I suppose we use it a bit, we use it
for jury service, don't we?
344
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And the Venetians,
for years and years and years,
345
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they used drawing of lots
to select the Doge.
346
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There were nine stages
of drawing lots,
347
00:17:01,347 --> 00:17:06,059
fantastically complicated system
but carried on for about 500 years
348
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and it was semi-random but the idea
was that it helped people through
349
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who are not just the
people with money
350
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or people who were good at
demagoguery or that kind of thing.
351
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So, anyway, let's go forth and
multiply with our fourth question.
352
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How did the Danish government
convince its citizens to multiply?
353
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This is one of my Randy Scandies.
354
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You mean...
355
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Actually? I do mean that.
356
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Was it financial incentives?
357
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There were incentives. We all
need incentives anyway, don't we?
358
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What, to procreate?
359
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Just, you know,
the bit before that, as well.
360
00:17:37,510 --> 00:17:39,510
Right. I'm fine, but OK.
361
00:17:41,512 --> 00:17:43,597
Incentivise me.
362
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I can narrow it down. It's
actually a place called Thisted,
363
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which is in Jutland, so the mainland,
the bit that sticks out from Germany.
364
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What happened? 2015, the local
authorities were going to close down
365
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the local school and everybody
366
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was very upset in the local area so
they struck a deal that the people
367
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would procreate as much as
possible if they kept the school
368
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and the leisure facilities open.
369
00:18:05,661 --> 00:18:09,006
Nothing says "I'm bringing
sexy back" like a council memo.
370
00:18:11,125 --> 00:18:13,293
Did they all do it?
Did they all have to have kids?
371
00:18:13,294 --> 00:18:15,672
Well, as many as possible.
They were encouraged to have kids.
372
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I have to say,
it's a lovely place, Thisted.
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Not a lot to do. Number three on
their own website of things to do
374
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in the area
is visit the candle shop.
375
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Sexy candles for around the bath.
376
00:18:29,852 --> 00:18:33,355
There's been lots of times before,
Britain has had its own panics
377
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about falling populations because of
the war and contraception and so on.
378
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So, in 1921, the Daily Express
379
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ran a competition to find
Britain's largest family.
380
00:18:42,573 --> 00:18:46,409
The News of the World
offered a free tea tray
381
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to any mother who gave
birth to her tenth child.
382
00:18:50,248 --> 00:18:53,252
Don't want your bloody tea tray,
I'll take your head off with it.
383
00:18:55,336 --> 00:18:57,757
And the French still give medals
for having large families.
384
00:18:57,758 --> 00:19:01,009
That's still a thing. The Medaille
de la Famille Francaise.
385
00:19:01,010 --> 00:19:03,056
How many kids for bronze?
What do you reckon?
386
00:19:03,057 --> 00:19:05,887
Six. Four to five.
Silver, six to seven.
387
00:19:05,888 --> 00:19:08,139
Gold, eight plus.
388
00:19:08,140 --> 00:19:11,518
I thought you said 45,
for a second there.
389
00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:15,194
There is so much wrong
with that picture, I can't begin.
390
00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:19,317
Go on.
391
00:19:19,318 --> 00:19:22,070
That is worrying.
392
00:19:22,071 --> 00:19:27,033
Maybe they're ventriloquists and
that's how they hold their toy.
393
00:19:27,034 --> 00:19:30,038
Just used to holding
people like that.
394
00:19:31,664 --> 00:19:36,135
Now, how many great nights out can
you have in a single week in Wales?
395
00:19:38,379 --> 00:19:40,839
Seven. Seven. It's not seven.
396
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,173
Eight.
397
00:19:42,174 --> 00:19:44,139
Eight. The Welsh word
for a week "wythnos"
398
00:19:44,140 --> 00:19:45,886
translates as eight nights.
399
00:19:45,887 --> 00:19:47,804
If you start counting a week
on a Sunday night
400
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and you finish on a Sunday night,
which is how they used to do it,
401
00:19:50,184 --> 00:19:54,019
that's eight nights.
402
00:19:54,020 --> 00:19:56,441
Did nobody put them straight?
It's wrong to us now.
403
00:19:56,442 --> 00:19:57,984
I mean, lots of things have changed.
404
00:19:57,985 --> 00:20:00,110
So, in old English, the day
used to begin at sunset
405
00:20:00,111 --> 00:20:02,362
so what was Wednesday night
to an Anglo-Saxon
406
00:20:02,363 --> 00:20:05,363
would be Tuesday night to us now,
so that's changed.
407
00:20:05,364 --> 00:20:07,037
And in some Muslim countries,
for example,
408
00:20:07,038 --> 00:20:10,124
where Friday is the holy day,
you have a Friday, Saturday weekend,
409
00:20:10,125 --> 00:20:12,459
the working week
then starts on a Sunday.
410
00:20:12,460 --> 00:20:16,085
Where can you get your hair done on
a Sunday three in the afternoon?
411
00:20:18,210 --> 00:20:19,553
That's a very good point.
412
00:20:21,047 --> 00:20:23,006
And whose diary is that?
413
00:20:23,007 --> 00:20:25,055
Because I'm having lunch with them.
414
00:20:27,094 --> 00:20:29,054
They can drive, that's nice. I know.
415
00:20:29,055 --> 00:20:30,602
Well, I think if they
had any manners,
416
00:20:30,603 --> 00:20:34,059
they'd get their hair done before
they had lunch with you. Yes.
417
00:20:34,060 --> 00:20:36,028
Or it means that two days
after lunch with Sandi,
418
00:20:36,029 --> 00:20:37,693
you better get your hair done.
419
00:20:43,819 --> 00:20:47,238
Anybody know what
half of a fortnight is?
420
00:20:47,239 --> 00:20:49,616
Imagine Jane Austen, for example.
Jane Austen?
421
00:20:49,617 --> 00:20:51,119
I'm not familiar with Jane Austen.
422
00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:52,327
It's a sennight.
423
00:20:52,328 --> 00:20:54,374
There's a lovely bit
in Pride And Prejudice
424
00:20:54,375 --> 00:20:56,795
where Mr Collins says he will
trespass on your hospitality
425
00:20:56,796 --> 00:21:01,419
from Monday, November 18th to
the Saturday sennight following.
426
00:21:01,420 --> 00:21:02,671
Do people still talk like that?
427
00:21:02,672 --> 00:21:04,718
We should bring those things back,
don't you think?
428
00:21:04,719 --> 00:21:06,591
Mind you, wouldn't your heart
fill with horror
429
00:21:06,592 --> 00:21:09,186
if somebody's coming to stay
for a sennight?
430
00:21:10,304 --> 00:21:12,931
How long is that again?
Seven nights.
431
00:21:12,932 --> 00:21:14,434
How long are you staying for'?
432
00:21:17,019 --> 00:21:19,771
I'm staying four nights
which, traditionally,
433
00:21:19,772 --> 00:21:23,026
it should only be three nights,
something about fish or something?
434
00:21:23,027 --> 00:21:25,026
You shouldn't stay...
It's Dickens, I think.
435
00:21:25,027 --> 00:21:27,492
He said that fish and overnight
guests are exactly the same,
436
00:21:27,493 --> 00:21:29,698
they both go off after three days.
Yes.
437
00:21:29,699 --> 00:21:31,872
Originally he was referring
to Hans Christian Andersen,
438
00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:33,456
who apparently was staying with him
439
00:21:33,457 --> 00:21:35,580
and was a truly
terrible house guest.
440
00:21:35,581 --> 00:21:37,580
What if you put
your guest in the fridge?
441
00:21:37,581 --> 00:21:39,040
Oh!
442
00:21:39,041 --> 00:21:41,668
Or freezer, even. Yes, that's...
Could last three months, then,
443
00:21:41,669 --> 00:21:43,842
or, you know, ten years,
like we all do.
444
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Eight nights on the town in Wales
makes for a long, long week.
445
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,802
Now, here's something nice.
446
00:21:50,803 --> 00:21:54,889
Cake. You've each got a cake
and a knife.
447
00:21:54,890 --> 00:21:56,933
And here is the challenge.
448
00:21:56,934 --> 00:22:01,354
I want you to cut two pieces
of exactly equal size.
449
00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:04,527
Now, you can use three cuts
to do it, but in such a way
450
00:22:04,528 --> 00:22:07,697
that the cake is still moist for
you to have some more tomorrow.
451
00:22:07,698 --> 00:22:09,991
What would be
the best way of cutting it?
452
00:22:09,992 --> 00:22:12,367
Could the cake stay
moist in my tummy?
453
00:22:12,368 --> 00:22:15,201
Then you could just half it. No.
454
00:22:15,202 --> 00:22:17,373
So, the idea is that there
is cake for tomorrow.
455
00:22:17,374 --> 00:22:19,873
So, we're going to start
with Alan and Colin first.
456
00:22:19,874 --> 00:22:25,170
What is your...? Well, my theory
is that we cut through the middle.
457
00:22:25,171 --> 00:22:28,596
OK. This is going to be difficult,
but we're going to do it.
458
00:22:28,597 --> 00:22:31,885
Right. And then, we
take the top off.
459
00:22:31,886 --> 00:22:33,970
OK.
460
00:22:33,971 --> 00:22:37,140
And we eat the bottom bit.
461
00:22:37,141 --> 00:22:39,356
You're going to eat the
whole of the bottom bit?
462
00:22:39,357 --> 00:22:42,025
But that's quite a large
piece of cake, isn't it?
463
00:22:42,026 --> 00:22:43,813
Yeah, yeah.
464
00:22:43,814 --> 00:22:46,237
We're two men in our 305,
we love cake.
465
00:22:48,903 --> 00:22:52,453
Take the top of. Colin will
remove the bottom of the cake.
466
00:22:54,366 --> 00:22:56,493
Then put the top back down again.
467
00:22:56,494 --> 00:23:00,544
That's moist for tomorrow and then
we cut this... place that there,
468
00:23:00,545 --> 00:23:03,500
we cut completely
in half, like that.
469
00:23:03,501 --> 00:23:06,380
Two equal pieces.
Wow, that's very good.
470
00:23:13,052 --> 00:23:16,898
Do you think anybody who likes the filling
is going to be mildly disappointed?
471
00:23:18,974 --> 00:23:20,394
So, let's go over to...
472
00:23:20,395 --> 00:23:22,857
I've got an idea.
No, do it with the cake!
473
00:23:22,858 --> 00:23:25,068
I'm just going to draw it first.
Oh, fine. Is that OK?
474
00:23:25,069 --> 00:23:27,237
Yes, darling, you do
what you like. Yeah.
475
00:23:28,734 --> 00:23:34,030
What if we cut it like, in a way
that we could... back together?
476
00:23:34,031 --> 00:23:36,830
We cut like a bit out of here
and a bit out of here
477
00:23:36,831 --> 00:23:38,451
and then just smush...
478
00:23:38,452 --> 00:23:40,453
Yeah, just...
479
00:23:40,454 --> 00:23:41,955
That would be better, wouldn't it?
480
00:23:41,956 --> 00:23:44,709
Do you want to do it? That was
a shambles, what they did.
481
00:23:46,418 --> 00:23:49,546
The smushing doesn't sound good.
482
00:23:49,547 --> 00:23:51,800
- Do you think? Yeah, go on.
- That's good.
483
00:23:52,967 --> 00:23:54,931
Shush now. Shush, shush, shush now.
484
00:23:54,932 --> 00:23:57,180
The audience are trying
to be helpful, but are not.
485
00:23:57,181 --> 00:23:59,806
OK. Go for it, Sarah.
486
00:23:59,807 --> 00:24:02,225
OK. So...
487
00:24:02,226 --> 00:24:05,605
Oh, it's tough. Delicious
is what you're looking for.
488
00:24:06,939 --> 00:24:08,940
And then, that.
You've just drawn Pac-Man.
489
00:24:08,941 --> 00:24:10,534
That doesn't make any sense.
490
00:24:10,535 --> 00:24:12,610
So, take out your pieces.
491
00:24:12,611 --> 00:24:15,034
These are our pieces.
492
00:24:18,534 --> 00:24:20,707
Noel, were you
calling US a shambles?
493
00:24:20,708 --> 00:24:24,378
Is that what you were saying?
There you go.
494
00:24:31,505 --> 00:24:33,970
So, there is
a mathematical way of doing it.
495
00:24:33,971 --> 00:24:36,888
There was a man called Francis
Galton. An extraordinary fellow.
496
00:24:36,889 --> 00:24:40,015
He was an explorer and he was the very
first person to come up with the idea
497
00:24:40,016 --> 00:24:42,811
of a weather map and he was also
slightly obsessed with the idea
498
00:24:42,812 --> 00:24:45,937
of sharing a Christmas cake
with his wife in an even manner.
499
00:24:45,938 --> 00:24:49,189
So, what he did was he wrote
a long treaties on the subject,
500
00:24:49,190 --> 00:24:51,191
which he sent to Nature magazine.
501
00:24:51,192 --> 00:24:53,445
You were absolutely heading
in the right direction.
502
00:24:53,446 --> 00:24:55,947
What you do is you cut it
right down the middle like this
503
00:24:55,948 --> 00:24:58,411
and then you pull out
the entire centre piece.
504
00:24:58,412 --> 00:25:00,954
Ah, that was it!
That's only two cuts though.
505
00:25:00,955 --> 00:25:03,998
Wait, I haven't finished. You
pull out the whole thing like this
506
00:25:03,999 --> 00:25:08,044
and then you cut that one in half,
so then you have two pieces.
507
00:25:08,045 --> 00:25:10,295
We were nearly there.
You were very nearly there.
508
00:25:10,296 --> 00:25:13,173
You have two pieces of cake like
that and then you simply push
509
00:25:13,174 --> 00:25:14,970
the cake back together.
510
00:25:16,342 --> 00:25:18,436
Looks very similar to ours.
511
00:25:22,473 --> 00:25:25,101
Are you writing that down now, Noel?
Yeah, I am. Yeah.
512
00:25:25,102 --> 00:25:28,022
So, only if there's two people
though. I mean, what if...?
513
00:25:28,023 --> 00:25:30,990
There's usually 19. Then usually
the whole cake gets eaten, I think.
514
00:25:30,991 --> 00:25:32,857
It's not really a problem.
515
00:25:32,858 --> 00:25:36,236
The same with two with me,
to be honest.
516
00:25:36,237 --> 00:25:39,159
There's actually a branch of
mathematics called fair cake-cutting
517
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,285
which is about optimising
the division of resources.
518
00:25:42,286 --> 00:25:44,624
In Chinese economics,
they talk about cake theory
519
00:25:44,625 --> 00:25:47,167
and it's slightly different
because the debate is whether
520
00:25:47,168 --> 00:25:49,916
it's more important
to divide the cake fairly
521
00:25:49,917 --> 00:25:51,760
or to bake a bigger cake.
522
00:25:54,797 --> 00:25:57,846
So, that's how you can
halve your cake and eat it.
523
00:25:57,847 --> 00:26:00,885
But now to a question
about wrong numbers.
524
00:26:00,886 --> 00:26:05,141
Where's the worst place in
the world for nuisance calls?
525
00:26:07,851 --> 00:26:09,852
That is a great picture.
526
00:26:09,853 --> 00:26:12,193
Do you not think you thought
more carefully about making
527
00:26:12,194 --> 00:26:14,736
a phone call when you had
to dial it one number at a time?
528
00:26:14,737 --> 00:26:17,737
If you had to dial someone who had
lots of eights and nines in it,
529
00:26:17,738 --> 00:26:20,658
sometimes you wouldn't bother.
You just couldn't be arsed.
530
00:26:20,659 --> 00:26:22,784
I actually did that,
I bought a retro phone
531
00:26:22,785 --> 00:26:25,285
Yeah.
532
00:26:25,286 --> 00:26:27,914
I went, "Oh, this is killing me."
Yeah.
533
00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:29,836
It's so boring.
534
00:26:31,166 --> 00:26:34,007
When I was a child, we had a holiday
home in the country in Denmark
535
00:26:34,008 --> 00:26:35,721
and there were so few... Ooh! Yes.
536
00:26:37,631 --> 00:26:40,258
There were so few telephones
that our number was seven.
537
00:26:40,259 --> 00:26:41,385
Really?
538
00:26:44,763 --> 00:26:47,061
A woman used to put the calls
through and then listen in
539
00:26:47,062 --> 00:26:48,808
and you knew that.
540
00:26:48,809 --> 00:26:51,227
You could hear her breathing.
541
00:26:51,228 --> 00:26:53,900
So did you ever get people
ringing up and then just go,
542
00:26:53,901 --> 00:26:55,737
"I think you've got
the wrong number"?
543
00:26:55,738 --> 00:26:58,953
Yes. "You want number nine."
"I wanted six." Yes. "I wanted six."
544
00:26:58,954 --> 00:27:00,194
Easily done.
545
00:27:00,195 --> 00:27:01,993
Worst place in the world
for nuisance calls.
546
00:27:01,994 --> 00:27:04,242
What do you reckon?
I know what that call is,
547
00:27:04,243 --> 00:27:06,117
someone's saying there's
a poo shortage,
548
00:27:06,118 --> 00:27:10,121
you haven't got anything
in your nappy, have you?
549
00:27:10,122 --> 00:27:12,290
I can help out.
Constantly.
550
00:27:12,291 --> 00:27:13,543
Just working on it now.
551
00:27:13,544 --> 00:27:15,632
Wouldn't it be the country
with the most people in?
552
00:27:15,633 --> 00:27:19,302
No, ironically, the place with the
fewest telephones for a short while.
553
00:27:19,303 --> 00:27:22,508
So, it's the Pacific island of Niue.
554
00:27:22,509 --> 00:27:24,344
It looks fab, doesn't it?
555
00:27:24,345 --> 00:27:27,642
Niue. So, in the early '90s,
people were constantly woken up
556
00:27:27,643 --> 00:27:31,644
by heavy breathers because the
country was the home of an extremely
557
00:27:31,645 --> 00:27:35,521
lucrative sex line business
and people often used
558
00:27:35,522 --> 00:27:36,944
to dial the wrong number.
559
00:27:36,945 --> 00:27:41,652
There were only 387 telephones on
the island and the phone numbers
560
00:27:41,653 --> 00:27:44,075
only had four digits so
people were often misdialling.
561
00:27:44,076 --> 00:27:47,703
So, this is people ringing the wrong
number and expecting a sex line?
562
00:27:47,704 --> 00:27:51,746
Yes.
563
00:27:51,747 --> 00:27:53,044
I didn't know this.
564
00:27:54,416 --> 00:27:58,091
Maybe it was just a helpline
for asthma, people with asthma.
565
00:28:00,714 --> 00:28:04,344
Nothing sexual. That guy's trying to
ring nine people at the same time.
566
00:28:04,345 --> 00:28:06,135
That's not going to work.
567
00:28:06,136 --> 00:28:08,182
I once picked up the phone
and somebody said,
568
00:28:08,183 --> 00:28:09,682
"You're supposed to be a fax!"
569
00:28:09,683 --> 00:28:13,726
And you think, "I have no idea
what to say back to them."
570
00:28:13,727 --> 00:28:14,728
Beep.
571
00:28:16,355 --> 00:28:19,402
So they had a terrible time because
people were constantly getting wrong
572
00:28:19,403 --> 00:28:22,115
numbers and Belgium was another
country that ran sex lines
573
00:28:22,116 --> 00:28:24,282
for quite a while.
When they were banned,
574
00:28:24,283 --> 00:28:26,869
this is the most brilliant
thing, they started a new thing,
575
00:28:26,870 --> 00:28:29,367
which was cookery lines
with recipes read
576
00:28:29,368 --> 00:28:31,245
in the most sexual way possible.
577
00:28:32,788 --> 00:28:36,254
They had to read out sexy recipes.
What's a sexy recipe?
578
00:28:36,255 --> 00:28:37,877
Toad in the hole. Toad...
579
00:28:39,128 --> 00:28:41,921
Toad in the hole.
580
00:28:41,922 --> 00:28:44,516
I can't think of anything
more exciting, I think.
581
00:28:44,517 --> 00:28:47,352
I quite fancy a toad in the hole.
582
00:28:48,470 --> 00:28:50,564
Last time I had that, I had
a football under my arm
583
00:28:50,565 --> 00:28:53,182
and a catapult in my pocket.
584
00:28:53,183 --> 00:28:54,309
Two weeks ago.
585
00:28:56,812 --> 00:28:59,611
You used to be able to get toad in
the hole followed by spotted dick.
586
00:28:59,612 --> 00:29:00,982
Yeah.
587
00:29:00,983 --> 00:29:03,279
There's a recipe you could read out.
Yeah.
588
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,322
So, here's the thing.
589
00:29:04,323 --> 00:29:06,742
We're going to make our own
nuisance call this evening.
590
00:29:06,743 --> 00:29:10,658
There is a number that
anybody can ring in Sweden
591
00:29:10,659 --> 00:29:14,457
and it's a scheme set up by
the country's tourism authority
592
00:29:14,458 --> 00:29:17,333
to celebrate 250 years
of free speech in Sweden
593
00:29:17,334 --> 00:29:19,710
and it's called Ring a Random Swede,
OK?
594
00:29:21,879 --> 00:29:23,597
It's genuinely a random thing.
595
00:29:23,598 --> 00:29:26,174
We've no idea
who we're going to get.
596
00:29:26,175 --> 00:29:28,553
We've already pre-selected
a question from a member
597
00:29:28,554 --> 00:29:31,305
of the audience and the question
is why do you eat rotten fish?
598
00:29:32,931 --> 00:29:35,266
Does anybody speak Swedish?
599
00:29:35,267 --> 00:29:37,688
Here's the marvellous
thing about Scandinavians,
600
00:29:37,689 --> 00:29:40,439
their English
is really coming along. OK.
601
00:29:46,778 --> 00:29:50,031
So, the marvellous sound department
are going to put the call through
602
00:29:50,032 --> 00:29:54,253
now and obviously we'll have to explain
what it is we're doing to this person.
603
00:30:22,523 --> 00:30:24,742
This whole thing's making me
very anxious, I don't know why.
604
00:30:24,743 --> 00:30:26,776
Is it? Just talking
to somebody you don't know?
605
00:30:26,777 --> 00:30:29,200
Because I think if somebody rang me
randomly, I'd be so pissed off.
606
00:30:29,201 --> 00:30:31,661
I know, but people have signed up
for it. Oh, they want it.
607
00:30:31,662 --> 00:30:33,500
They've signed up
to be Random Swede.
608
00:30:33,501 --> 00:30:35,493
It's not like you just...
609
00:30:35,494 --> 00:30:39,374
Hello. Hello. Hi, my name is Sandi,
I'm ringing from London.
610
00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:40,375
Who's that?
611
00:30:42,501 --> 00:30:45,846
Robin. Hi. You're my
Random Swede that I'm ringing.
612
00:30:47,881 --> 00:30:50,555
Is it your first phone call
from an English person?
613
00:30:52,386 --> 00:30:54,095
Oh!
614
00:30:54,096 --> 00:30:57,475
Well, this is kind of exciting,
Robin, because I'm ringing you
615
00:30:57,476 --> 00:31:00,601
from a live television
studio in London.
616
00:31:00,602 --> 00:31:04,072
You're on the BBC
right now, is that OK?
617
00:31:06,817 --> 00:31:09,821
OK. I tell you what, we'll have a
round of applause from our audience.
618
00:31:09,822 --> 00:31:11,447
Maybe you can hear that.
619
00:31:18,829 --> 00:31:20,752
So, what do you do, Robin?
620
00:31:25,252 --> 00:31:26,925
Are you actually in the shop?
621
00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:30,548
OK. So, we have
a question from our audience.
622
00:31:30,549 --> 00:31:32,802
You may be buying
this now, what do I know?
623
00:31:32,803 --> 00:31:35,645
Why do Swedish people
eat rotten fish is the question
624
00:31:35,646 --> 00:31:37,230
we want to ask you.
625
00:31:48,859 --> 00:31:51,032
So, what are you going to buy,
Robin, for your dinner?
626
00:31:56,158 --> 00:31:58,411
Nice, sounds nice.
Parmesan, that sounds lovely.
627
00:31:58,412 --> 00:32:00,620
(Very good English.)
628
00:32:00,621 --> 00:32:03,044
Can you ask him how he's going
to divide the chicken?
629
00:32:03,045 --> 00:32:04,257
Yeah.
630
00:32:05,792 --> 00:32:07,886
And to keep it moist the next...
Yeah.
631
00:32:09,129 --> 00:32:10,631
So here's the thing, Robin...
632
00:32:14,384 --> 00:32:17,228
Are you all right if we put
this on the BBC?
633
00:32:17,229 --> 00:32:19,055
OK.
634
00:32:19,056 --> 00:32:21,855
On BBC Two. It's called QI,
do you know QI?
635
00:32:23,769 --> 00:32:25,728
No.
636
00:32:25,729 --> 00:32:28,444
You have your own version
in Sweden of QI.
637
00:32:28,445 --> 00:32:31,531
Intresseklubben. Could you ask
him...? Intresseklubben.
638
00:32:31,532 --> 00:32:35,950
Could you ask him what time should
he expect us for dinner? Yes, so...
639
00:32:35,951 --> 00:32:38,199
The whole audience wants to
come for dinner.
640
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,498
It was lovely to speak to you,
Robin.
641
00:32:47,376 --> 00:32:50,378
That
English, coming along, wasn't it?
642
00:32:50,379 --> 00:32:51,712
Yeah, coming along.
643
00:32:51,713 --> 00:32:54,428
You'll never meet an unfriendly
Swede, that's my view.
644
00:32:54,429 --> 00:32:56,927
No, darling, that's
because they're usually drunk.
645
00:32:58,470 --> 00:32:59,562
It's a Danish-Swedish thing.
646
00:32:59,563 --> 00:33:00,971
OK, new question.
647
00:33:00,972 --> 00:33:03,349
How does it feel to be a 9-ender?
648
00:33:03,350 --> 00:33:05,398
Anybody know?
If you've lost a finger?
649
00:33:06,687 --> 00:33:08,229
Oh! It's not that.
650
00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:09,814
It's about our ages.
651
00:33:09,815 --> 00:33:11,909
Oh, is it if you're sort
of 19, 29, 39?
652
00:33:11,910 --> 00:33:13,734
Yes, it's exactly that.
653
00:33:13,735 --> 00:33:15,155
They did a study in 2014,
654
00:33:15,156 --> 00:33:18,119
Adam Alter and Hal E Hershfield
of New York University,
655
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,743
and people who have nine at
the end of their age
656
00:33:20,744 --> 00:33:24,540
are more likely to be looking
for purpose in their lives.
657
00:33:24,541 --> 00:33:26,414
I think the idea is that
we see a new decade
658
00:33:26,415 --> 00:33:28,088
as a sort of watershed moment.
A milestone.
659
00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:29,585
A milestone, exactly right. Yes.
660
00:33:29,586 --> 00:33:31,549
So, more likely to be
registered on dating sites
661
00:33:31,550 --> 00:33:34,344
looking for extramarital affairs,
for example.
662
00:33:34,345 --> 00:33:36,382
More likely to run a marathon
663
00:33:36,383 --> 00:33:38,008
or commit suicide.
664
00:33:38,009 --> 00:33:41,475
I don't think that's an either or,
I don't think that's...
665
00:33:41,476 --> 00:33:44,186
And also to do better in marathons
cos they're better motivated.
666
00:33:44,187 --> 00:33:45,521
And lots of examples,
667
00:33:45,522 --> 00:33:47,688
Buddha renounced all his
possessions when he was 29,
668
00:33:47,689 --> 00:33:49,687
Agatha Christie published
her first book at 29,
669
00:33:49,688 --> 00:33:52,523
Alexander Graham Bell transmitted
his first sentence by telephone
670
00:33:52,524 --> 00:33:54,197
at 29, so there are lots
and lots of examples.
671
00:33:54,198 --> 00:33:56,615
I started doing stand-up at 29.
Did you? Yeah, yeah.
672
00:33:56,616 --> 00:34:01,198
Peter Schmeichel won his first
Premiership winner's medal at 29
673
00:34:01,199 --> 00:34:04,326
and this year, his son Kasper
674
00:34:04,327 --> 00:34:08,414
has won his first
Premiership medal at 29.
675
00:34:08,415 --> 00:34:10,759
- Wow, that's kind of spooky.
- Ooh.
676
00:34:12,377 --> 00:34:15,096
That is kind of spooky.
And they're both goalkeepers.
677
00:34:15,097 --> 00:34:17,381
And they're both Danish.
678
00:34:17,382 --> 00:34:20,551
Yes, well, there's a Randy Scandi.
679
00:34:20,552 --> 00:34:23,220
I've come up with a Randy Scandi!
Yeah.
680
00:34:23,221 --> 00:34:25,973
Right, let's play How Many
People In The Audience...
681
00:34:25,974 --> 00:34:28,978
Each of my panellists
has got a coloured card
682
00:34:28,979 --> 00:34:31,729
and the audience
also has coloured cards
683
00:34:31,730 --> 00:34:34,779
and I'm going to get them
to stand up and I want you to
684
00:34:34,780 --> 00:34:38,235
tell me which item
on this list relates
685
00:34:38,236 --> 00:34:40,908
to the number of people
who are standing.
686
00:34:40,909 --> 00:34:43,625
We're going to start with
Colin, what colour is your card'?
687
00:34:43,626 --> 00:34:48,746
Blue. So, could all the blue
card people stand up, please?
688
00:34:48,747 --> 00:34:50,249
What do you reckon, Colin?
689
00:34:50,250 --> 00:34:53,343
How many people
do you think that is? Erm...
690
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,879
It's about 182.
691
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,008
It's 230 people.
692
00:35:01,009 --> 00:35:04,388
It took 230 people to do
one of these five things.
693
00:35:04,389 --> 00:35:07,640
Selfie fatalities in 2014.
694
00:35:07,641 --> 00:35:10,982
It is not. It is something
a little bit more substantial.
695
00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:13,981
Built the Eiffel Tower. Built the
Eiffel Tower is absolutely right.
696
00:35:13,982 --> 00:35:17,191
Built by 230 people in two years.
697
00:35:17,192 --> 00:35:20,820
Sit back down again
and we will come to Sarah.
698
00:35:20,821 --> 00:35:22,116
What colour is your card'?
699
00:35:22,117 --> 00:35:25,536
I have red. So, could I have
the red cards standing, please?
700
00:35:25,537 --> 00:35:27,332
How many do you think that might be?
701
00:35:28,537 --> 00:35:30,454
69.
702
00:35:30,455 --> 00:35:33,874
So, have a look at the list,
what do you reckon?
703
00:35:33,875 --> 00:35:35,714
I think maybe the selfie fatalities.
704
00:35:35,715 --> 00:35:38,382
You keep going for that one.
It isn't that.
705
00:35:38,383 --> 00:35:42,180
It's the world record number
of children born to a single mother.
706
00:35:42,181 --> 00:35:43,884
No way.
707
00:35:43,885 --> 00:35:46,804
All of you are now related.
708
00:35:46,805 --> 00:35:49,723
It's a woman called
Valentina Vassilyev.
709
00:35:49,724 --> 00:35:51,517
She had 16 pairs of twins,
710
00:35:51,518 --> 00:35:53,394
she had seven sets of triplets
711
00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:58,232
and four sets of quadruplets
in 40 years, between 1725 and 1765.
712
00:35:58,233 --> 00:36:00,734
In total, 27 births.
713
00:36:00,735 --> 00:36:02,778
Her husband, Feodor Vassilyev,
714
00:36:02,779 --> 00:36:06,824
went on to have a further
18 children with his second wife.
715
00:36:06,825 --> 00:36:10,035
So, he left her?!
After all of those kids!
716
00:36:10,036 --> 00:36:12,082
I think she died. I think she died.
717
00:36:12,083 --> 00:36:13,923
It's unbelievable, isn't it?
718
00:36:13,924 --> 00:36:16,333
But the way she was having children
719
00:36:16,334 --> 00:36:20,713
was someone was unscrewing her
and they were just getting out...
720
00:36:20,714 --> 00:36:22,678
But this is a wrong that
ought to be righted.
721
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:24,675
The Guinness Book of Records
describes Valentina
722
00:36:24,676 --> 00:36:27,054
as the wife of Feodor
without mentioning her own name
723
00:36:27,055 --> 00:36:29,349
and she deserves absolutely
her own name as credit.
724
00:36:29,350 --> 00:36:32,813
Oh, boo! Valentina, she was called.
Do you know how young she started?
725
00:36:32,814 --> 00:36:34,648
Well, over 40 years
she had the children...
726
00:36:34,649 --> 00:36:36,817
Oh, my God... so must've
started very young indeed.
727
00:36:36,818 --> 00:36:39,189
She was four. Yes.
728
00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:42,490
Let's have a look at yours, Noel.
What colour is your card'?
729
00:36:42,491 --> 00:36:46,030
White. Let's have all
the white cards stand.
730
00:36:46,031 --> 00:36:48,454
How many people
do you reckon that is?
731
00:36:48,455 --> 00:36:51,285
49, almost exactly right.
732
00:36:51,286 --> 00:36:54,955
What does that represent?
733
00:36:54,956 --> 00:36:58,756
Everybody's gone for the selfie
fatalities, what do you reckon?
734
00:36:58,757 --> 00:37:01,253
QI contestants.
735
00:37:01,254 --> 00:37:03,928
You should have gone
for the selfie fatalities.
736
00:37:07,469 --> 00:37:11,517
That number of people, very sadly,
in 2014, died taking a selfie.
737
00:37:11,518 --> 00:37:14,855
16 came from a fall, four from
a gunshot, one from an animal,
738
00:37:14,856 --> 00:37:17,523
I don't know what
the story is, I've no idea.
739
00:37:17,524 --> 00:37:20,490
The most common place apparently
to die taking a selfie is in India.
740
00:37:20,491 --> 00:37:22,566
Followed by Russia.
741
00:37:22,567 --> 00:37:25,194
I tell you what, Alan, why don't you
get the whole audience to stand up?
742
00:37:25,195 --> 00:37:27,154
Everyone, please rise.
743
00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:29,198
There we are.
744
00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:32,874
So, that's the entire audience.
Oh, I've heard that noise before.
745
00:37:36,915 --> 00:37:39,792
Turn your back for two seconds.
746
00:37:39,793 --> 00:37:43,087
625 people is the QI audience.
747
00:37:43,088 --> 00:37:46,308
I can tell you it represents people
who died in a certain way.
748
00:37:46,309 --> 00:37:50,803
They didn't die together.
It was 625 individual incidents.
749
00:37:50,804 --> 00:37:53,557
Domestic accidents?
It's an accident in the home.
750
00:37:53,558 --> 00:37:55,229
Coming to panel shows?
751
00:37:58,561 --> 00:38:00,734
The word coming
is going to be most...
752
00:38:00,735 --> 00:38:03,482
No. No!
753
00:38:03,483 --> 00:38:06,487
Getting jiggy?
It's the number of people in 2014
754
00:38:06,488 --> 00:38:09,706
who died from
autoerotic asphyxiation.
755
00:38:11,032 --> 00:38:13,330
Sit down, you dirty bastards!
756
00:38:16,413 --> 00:38:20,880
Sorry, I'm confused. I thought for
a moment you were all autoerotics.
757
00:38:20,881 --> 00:38:24,345
That's how to explain the dangers
of autoerotic asphyxiation
758
00:38:24,346 --> 00:38:26,171
using our studio audience.
759
00:38:26,172 --> 00:38:30,843
All of which talk of hard sums
brings us to the insoluble equation
760
00:38:30,844 --> 00:38:35,097
that is general ignorance.
So, fingers on buzzers, please.
761
00:38:35,098 --> 00:38:39,729
In terms of numbers, which is the
most common vertebrate in the world?
762
00:38:39,730 --> 00:38:40,811
♪ ABC. ♪
763
00:38:40,812 --> 00:38:43,281
Alan. Humans.
764
00:38:46,443 --> 00:38:48,489
We never knew you liked the klaxon!
765
00:38:48,490 --> 00:38:51,080
We'll get some more.
We'll get some more.
766
00:38:51,081 --> 00:38:52,531
Seven billion humans.
767
00:38:52,532 --> 00:38:55,159
I can tell you already there are
more chickens than there are...
768
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,912
♪ ABC. ♪
769
00:39:00,081 --> 00:39:02,083
Chickens.
Chickens, that should do it.
770
00:39:08,965 --> 00:39:10,466
♪ Three, two, one. ♪
771
00:39:10,467 --> 00:39:12,561
No.
772
00:39:14,095 --> 00:39:16,055
It's not rats.
773
00:39:16,056 --> 00:39:18,682
I have got it. Yes.
774
00:39:18,683 --> 00:39:21,186
People who died
of auto asphyxiation.
775
00:39:22,937 --> 00:39:24,646
It's a fish. Fish, fish!
776
00:39:24,647 --> 00:39:28,025
It's a fish called the
Bristlemouth and it's tiny.
777
00:39:28,026 --> 00:39:31,155
It is smaller than your finger
but if it opens its mouth up wide
778
00:39:31,156 --> 00:39:33,407
it's got these incredible
needle-like teeth.
779
00:39:33,408 --> 00:39:37,079
It's an amazing fish. It glows
and it eats even smaller creatures,
780
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,500
which you can see there, called
copepods, but they are not vertebrates.
781
00:39:40,501 --> 00:39:43,713
But this is the largest number
of vertebrates in the world.
782
00:39:43,714 --> 00:39:47,425
They live in the sea between half a
mile and three miles down and until
783
00:39:47,426 --> 00:39:50,260
the 21st-century, so they got
the very fine dredging nets,
784
00:39:50,261 --> 00:39:52,471
we didn't really know
how many there were.
785
00:39:52,472 --> 00:39:55,061
The estimate now is that
there are as many as a dozen
786
00:39:55,062 --> 00:39:58,138
per square metre
of ocean surface. Whoa.
787
00:39:58,139 --> 00:40:00,358
And they disguise
themselves as diagrams.
788
00:40:00,359 --> 00:40:03,060
They do.
789
00:40:03,061 --> 00:40:04,775
Protandrous, do you know
what that means?
790
00:40:04,776 --> 00:40:06,148
No. They're protandrous. They...
791
00:40:06,149 --> 00:40:08,149
Like Chrissie Hynde? No.
792
00:40:09,776 --> 00:40:13,195
I don't know about that. They're
male first hermaphrodites.
793
00:40:13,196 --> 00:40:15,415
The most common animal
in the world is an invertebrate.
794
00:40:15,416 --> 00:40:17,032
It's the nematode worm.
795
00:40:17,033 --> 00:40:20,702
Four out of five of all
animals is a nematode worm.
796
00:40:20,703 --> 00:40:23,377
Anything that comes at you
like that without any eyes...
797
00:40:27,252 --> 00:40:30,131
That's why some of us made
the life choices we did.
798
00:40:37,095 --> 00:40:40,722
What colour bricks did
they build Number 10 with?
799
00:40:40,723 --> 00:40:43,146
Oh, red ones, surely.
They're dirty. NOEL: White.
800
00:40:43,147 --> 00:40:44,816
Black.
801
00:40:48,231 --> 00:40:49,356
No. Yellow.
802
00:40:49,357 --> 00:40:52,199
There was lots and lots of pollution
and in fact when it was cleaned off
803
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,695
in the '50s and '60s, they thought,
"Oh, we better paint it black
804
00:40:54,696 --> 00:40:57,493
"cos everyone's expecting it
to be black." Oh, no, really?
805
00:40:57,494 --> 00:41:00,706
And can you see the zero
on the ten is slightly askew?
806
00:41:00,707 --> 00:41:04,000
It's an homage to old number which
was always very slightly askew.
807
00:41:04,001 --> 00:41:06,462
The White House is also made
with yellow bricks
808
00:41:06,463 --> 00:41:07,752
so that is a curious thing,
809
00:41:07,753 --> 00:41:11,003
they are in fact sandstone
underneath all that white paint.
810
00:41:11,004 --> 00:41:13,046
They may not look it
but the White House
811
00:41:13,047 --> 00:41:14,594
and the front of Number 10
Downing Street
812
00:41:14,595 --> 00:41:16,967
are both a similar shade of yellow.
813
00:41:16,968 --> 00:41:21,346
The word noon comes from the word
nun, which meant nine,
814
00:41:21,347 --> 00:41:24,476
so with that in mind, if you
had to meet a ninth-century nun
815
00:41:24,477 --> 00:41:27,729
at noon, what time would
you noodle off to the nunnery?
816
00:41:32,275 --> 00:41:35,402
Noon means nun,
which came from nine,
817
00:41:35,403 --> 00:41:36,695
you're meeting the nun at nine.
818
00:41:36,696 --> 00:41:39,323
Nun, what time would you meet if
you were meeting the nun at noon?
819
00:41:39,324 --> 00:41:40,701
12?
820
00:41:45,413 --> 00:41:47,415
Nine. Yeah. No.
821
00:41:51,127 --> 00:41:52,504
There isn't a nun.
822
00:41:57,759 --> 00:42:00,387
Anyone else want to have a go?
Just call them, instead.
823
00:42:00,388 --> 00:42:02,100
Until the mid-12th century,
824
00:42:02,101 --> 00:42:04,269
the word noon meant three
o'clock in the afternoon.
825
00:42:04,270 --> 00:42:05,733
Ah, bollocks.
826
00:42:08,019 --> 00:42:12,231
You were so winning, as well.
You just destroyed your score.
827
00:42:12,232 --> 00:42:14,485
It goes back
to old Christian prayer times,
828
00:42:14,486 --> 00:42:17,112
so it used to be that
the day began at Sam,
829
00:42:17,113 --> 00:42:19,112
so that was known as the prime
or the first hour
830
00:42:19,113 --> 00:42:22,083
and then you have terces, so the
third hour, that would be 9am today.
831
00:42:22,084 --> 00:42:25,796
Nonny's the ninth hour.
832
00:42:28,081 --> 00:42:31,166
He's praying for a new one.
833
00:42:31,167 --> 00:42:34,046
"Please, I don't want
to be in Cabaret any more!"
834
00:42:36,798 --> 00:42:40,890
Until the Middle Ages, noon was 3pm
and all this talk of time makes me
835
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:43,138
realise it must be
time for the scores.
836
00:42:43,139 --> 00:42:45,310
In last place with -41 is Alan.
837
00:42:49,602 --> 00:42:51,855
It should be Sarah next,
but we're going to skip over that
838
00:42:51,856 --> 00:42:54,824
and we're going to put in
third place Colin, with -9.
839
00:42:54,825 --> 00:42:56,910
Thank you.
840
00:42:58,152 --> 00:43:00,701
Thank you. And in
second place, Noel, with one point!
841
00:43:04,534 --> 00:43:07,706
So, Sarah actually got -26, but I
was supposed to do a gig for Sarah
842
00:43:07,707 --> 00:43:11,752
and I let her down by becoming the
new host of QI and I couldn't do it,
843
00:43:11,753 --> 00:43:15,299
so this week's winner, to make
up for it, is Sarah Millican!
844
00:43:26,264 --> 00:43:28,140
That's all from Sarah, Noel, Colin,
845
00:43:28,141 --> 00:43:31,063
Alan and me. And I leave you
with this number-related,
846
00:43:31,064 --> 00:43:34,530
Neolithic newspaper nugget
from the Eastern Evening News.
847
00:43:34,531 --> 00:43:38,817
When two men stole six sheep
from a farm at Mumford,
848
00:43:38,818 --> 00:43:42,116
they found that they could only get five
of them into the back of their van.
849
00:43:42,117 --> 00:43:45,367
So, the other one had to sit
in the cab between the two men.
850
00:43:45,368 --> 00:43:48,413
But the men had to pass through
Watton on their way home.
851
00:43:48,414 --> 00:43:51,877
Fearing that the sheep sitting
in the cab might be conspicuous,
852
00:43:51,878 --> 00:43:54,547
they disguised it by putting
a trilby hat on its head.
853
00:43:55,543 --> 00:43:56,635
Goodnight.