🧵 1/3: This latest @standupmaths video about tunnel height limit signs in the 🇬🇧 #UnitedKingdom is in the best kind of geekery / nerdery there is. Who knew that metric and imperial measurements do not have to be 1:1 convertible to the other? 🤷

https://youtu.be/kH_bSvf7EVA

#StandUpMaths #MattParker #math #maths #mathematics #bridges #tunnels #transportation #roads #highways

Next video: "We built a 2.2m/7'0" bridge and got it officially recognised." (gce) #UK #StandUpMaths #Bridges #MattParker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_bSvf7EVA

Number of mathematicians who laboriously pored through a Philips atlas with a highlighter pen: 1.

Number of mathematicians who scraped Facebook posts for people talking about low bridges: 1.

Number of viewers who thought "Network Rail will have a list of all low railway bridges." and went off to read it: 1.

Data found from Network Rail's list in a couple of minutes, as soon as I realized that there was sometimes a space between the feet and the inches in the old measurements. (-:

https://youtube.com/v/kH_bSvf7EVA?t=808&lc=UgzI-T7hmKCGdPC-4e14AaABAg

@bytebro
#StandUpMaths #NetworkRail #LowBridges #metric #RoadSigns

"Kellogs did reply to my email. To say that they don't reply to that sort of email".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYjD9cpxT18

#StandUpMaths