HOW YOUR TECH IS LYING TO YOU: the volume control is logarithmic so it feels perceptually linear
real weird way to start a video with this
i saw this thumbnail and i thought "bro is not gonna make a whole video essay about how logarithms exist right" but that's what he did (well, at least a minute of it. i am not watching the rest)
@halcy what if 3blue1brown decided to go full tabloid mode
@lritter "This theorem holds for 906150256 natural numbers - you won't believe what happens next!"
@halcy big red arrow pointing at the number PI labeled "FAKE"
@halcy "I ordered a sin() function from India and this is what I got" (it's about Bhaskara's formula)
@lritter making a video about IEEE754 and titling it "Your computer is LYING to you", arrow points to a CPU, red text "CANNOT DO MATH"
@halcy you know enrico tartarotti is eventually going to find this thread and just use all of these ideas
@lritter that's okay it would be very funny
@lritter you know, actually, has one of those maths youtubers made a video about theorems like that, like theorems that hold for a very large number of steps, but eventually have a counterexample?
@halcy good question. sounds like something that could happen with a prime-related conjecture
@lritter the one referenced above is the Polya conjecture ("most numbers smaller than any given natural have an odd number of prime factors"), so there is at least that one

@lritter @halcy

Not sure about YouTube, but there was an example recently in my feed here on the Fediverse:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/113636337545380124

John Carlos Baez (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @mra - yes, Greg Egan and I had a lot of fun with a variant of those Borwein integrals!

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@anton @lritter @halcy 3Blue1Brown performed a song with this example in it! It's worth a listen: https://youtu.be/NOCsdhzo6Jg
How They Fool Ya (live) | Math parody of Hallelujah

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