I have a problem for you ! I can't figure this out ..
A pill contains 400 mg. 8 hours after you eat it 80% of the pill is broken down (the pill is broken down exponential). If you can't have more than 1200 mg of pills in you how long do you need to wait in between every pill if you have a the same time in between all the time, over a long time.
Ok one second .. if the ants walk and turn around when they run into another and you said thats like if they "passed throug each other" but if they walked through each other then there would be a 0 > X < 1 point at which the ants would be inside each other .. now if we sat the ants in a repeating 0,1 order (0 facing left and 1 facing right) meaning that the ants in the middle couldnt move untill the ants on the sides got facing the right(as in not wrong) side.
Ok one second .. if the ants walk and turn around when they run into another and you said thats like if they "passed throug each other" but if they walked through each other then there would be a 0 > X < 1 point at which the ants would be inside each other .. now if we sat the ants in a repeating 0,1 order (0 facing left and 1 facing right) meaning that the ants in the middle couldnt move untill the ants on the sides got facing the right(as in not wrong) side.
The two ants at 0 and 100 centimeters are ALREADY at the ends and thus have walked off the stick by default to begin with, regardless of what way they were facing.
In other words, it will take LESS than one minute at most.
Unless you assume that an ant at the end is facing towards the stick and that somehow keeps her from falling off. And i say her, since male ants have wings and would fly away anyway.
It took me a few seconds to figure out a minute or less, but I thought there was an exact answer so I wracked my brain for like 3 whole minutes trying to figure it out before i watched the vid lol
It took me a few seconds to figure out a minute or less, but I thought there was an exact answer so I wracked my brain for like 3 whole minutes trying to figure it out before i watched the vid lol
Of course, if we included one more ant (for 101), we would have avoided the ambiguity of their placement. But a fun puzzle none the less. Also interesting; I found that if an ant makes it more than halfway of the distance from its starting point and the end toward which it is travelling, it will have no more 'collisions'.
@singingbanana if ants are spread like this. 0.5cm A 1cm A 1cm A ...................A 1 cm A 0.5 cm the 50th ant will be 49.5 cm away hence the shortest time is 29.7
But isn't the time for colliding shorter than the time it needs to actually get through each other? .. In the "walking through each other" part, there is extra length which is the diameter of the ball! .. Please tell me if I'm wrong! .. I enjoy your videos! :D
@EmiratiN3RD The ants are considered as infinitely small points without length, so there is no difference ;). Otherwise we would have been provided with that information.
@SaiyanKirby right forgot that was the original puzzle. Then i had gotten the answer right in the other video (Well aside from the fact that i did minutes vs seconds. but it still had sixty minutes vs 60 seconds and 30 minutes vs 30 seconds. So although my time was incorrect My answer was right.)
Lets say that all the ants are paired so that they're facing towards each other. After about a secound, they all collide switching directions and two ants fall off. The ants are once again all paired facing eachother but there are now two less ants with more space between them. When this is repeated until the the last two ants fall off, would it not have taken over a minute since the last two ants had to backtrack numerous times?
@sushicartman01 That is what I was thinking, the first ants would fall off near instantaneously, and the last ants would fall off sometime in the future (i never bothered to do the math, just a bit of a mental picture). It makes sense, though, that if they were to pass through one another it would take between 30s and 1m....
If the ants are spread out over the meter would there possibly be one starting off at the edge of the who if facing the correct direction would effectively jump off at 0 seconds making that the minimum time? So from any starting off position other than 50cm would have potentially less than 30 seconds to drop off depending on which way it was facing.
i don't get the ghost ants bit, can someone explain to me please...
p.s. please use dumb dumb version..
Jiefyang 18 hours ago
I have a problem for you ! I can't figure this out ..
A pill contains 400 mg. 8 hours after you eat it 80% of the pill is broken down (the pill is broken down exponential). If you can't have more than 1200 mg of pills in you how long do you need to wait in between every pill if you have a the same time in between all the time, over a long time.
TheProfaneMind 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
You would expect the answer to be really complicated and when you see the answer you wish you would have figured it out for yourself...
anticorncob6 3 months ago
Now
GSA14101996 4 months ago
Cough up a new video no
GSA14101996 4 months ago
Ok one second .. if the ants walk and turn around when they run into another and you said thats like if they "passed throug each other" but if they walked through each other then there would be a 0 > X < 1 point at which the ants would be inside each other .. now if we sat the ants in a repeating 0,1 order (0 facing left and 1 facing right) meaning that the ants in the middle couldnt move untill the ants on the sides got facing the right(as in not wrong) side.
BulletShell1337 4 months ago
Ok one second .. if the ants walk and turn around when they run into another and you said thats like if they "passed throug each other" but if they walked through each other then there would be a 0 > X < 1 point at which the ants would be inside each other .. now if we sat the ants in a repeating 0,1 order (0 facing left and 1 facing right) meaning that the ants in the middle couldnt move untill the ants on the sides got facing the right(as in not wrong) side.
BulletShell1337 4 months ago
Now hold on just a minute.
The two ants at 0 and 100 centimeters are ALREADY at the ends and thus have walked off the stick by default to begin with, regardless of what way they were facing.
In other words, it will take LESS than one minute at most.
Unless you assume that an ant at the end is facing towards the stick and that somehow keeps her from falling off. And i say her, since male ants have wings and would fly away anyway.
Amphibiot 4 months ago
@Amphibiot I believe they have to fall off the ends. And if the ant at 0 is facing right, it has to go all the way across.
anticorncob6 3 months ago
At 1:18 you look like a rapper.
08firthf 4 months ago
@08firthf *he's an author!''
gC222SA 4 months ago
@gC222SA I know, I'm just talking about the gestures.
08firthf 4 months ago
I got it! I fucking got it! I never get these things right!
PartiallyRibena 5 months ago
it really makes no difference, 30s to a minute is virtually what everybody said anyway, i was really expecting a different answer
Tolstoievsky 5 months ago
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This puzzle has absolutely no basis in reality!
illustriouschin 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
It took me a few seconds to figure out a minute or less, but I thought there was an exact answer so I wracked my brain for like 3 whole minutes trying to figure it out before i watched the vid lol
darkdudironaji 5 months ago
It took me a few seconds to figure out a minute or less, but I thought there was an exact answer so I wracked my brain for like 3 whole minutes trying to figure it out before i watched the vid lol
darkdudironaji 5 months ago
Wouw this video deserves its 0 dislikes. :) i would have never thought about that :D
Crashkiller62 5 months ago
@Crashkiller62 DON`T WAKE THE TROLLS!!!!!!!!!
nicholishere 5 months ago
@nicholishere if they are not wake yet why should they be later by seeing that comment? :o
Crashkiller62 5 months ago
Got it right :) Though your explanation is a whole lot easier.
lulhoofd1 5 months ago
Of course, if we included one more ant (for 101), we would have avoided the ambiguity of their placement. But a fun puzzle none the less. Also interesting; I found that if an ant makes it more than halfway of the distance from its starting point and the end toward which it is travelling, it will have no more 'collisions'.
IhaveWoodforSheep 5 months ago
Wait..did you film the Anwser video right after the Question video?
Contrabot 5 months ago
@Contrabot Thats what I'm guessing XP It probably is just easier for him to film it all in one go
CrimsonMaysd 5 months ago
Mind = blown. As if there's a tiger gnawing on your face and you don't even notice it until someone tells you it's there.
FHomeBrew 5 months ago
collisions are tantamount to an exchange of labels in passing
AtheistCitizen 5 months ago
I know the answer now!
ThatRandomGuy2143 5 months ago
I was right :D
TheMajorpickle01 5 months ago
"Mathematical ghost ants" would be the scariest horror movie ever.
DiogeneshoKunikos 5 months ago 84
@DiogeneshoKunikos especially for the kids in grade school which most likely REALLY dislike math XD
juliman777 5 months ago
I honestly thought you were going to start juggling...
PurpleUkuleleGuy 5 months ago 2
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AmFilms123 5 months ago
As soon as I saw you hold a ball I was hoping for a juggling act right at the end. I was disappointed, James! DISAPPOINTED!
WhiteRAZOR 5 months ago
Pls reply
GSA14101996 5 months ago
@singingbanana if ants are spread like this. 0.5cm A 1cm A 1cm A ...................A 1 cm A 0.5 cm the 50th ant will be 49.5 cm away hence the shortest time is 29.7
GSA14101996 5 months ago
But isn't the time for colliding shorter than the time it needs to actually get through each other? .. In the "walking through each other" part, there is extra length which is the diameter of the ball! .. Please tell me if I'm wrong! .. I enjoy your videos! :D
EmiratiN3RD 5 months ago
@EmiratiN3RD The ants are considered as infinitely small points without length, so there is no difference ;). Otherwise we would have been provided with that information.
D3m190d 5 months ago
@EmiratiN3RD No because he said they had no actual size and were just mathematical points
tjv323 5 months ago
Amazing,i would never know.
BTW I love your ending "If you are happy,thanks for watching"
I am always happy when watching your videos! :)
eXisentZ 5 months ago
@eXisentZ It's actually: "If you have been, thanks for watching."
WiVaBo 5 months ago
@WiVaBo yeah i just heard it,anyway it's still a cool ending.
eXisentZ 5 months ago
@eXisentZ But I like your version too. :)
WiVaBo 5 months ago
Awesome puzzle, keep up the great work ^_^
hyperstation123321 5 months ago
what if you have an ant at the very far right, facing right. It will walk off instantly.
Rockwarrior2004 5 months ago
@Rockwarrior2004 Then theres 99 left :)
Jezza408 5 months ago
@Rockwarrior2004 The puzzle was for all of the ants.
SaiyanKirby 5 months ago
@SaiyanKirby right forgot that was the original puzzle. Then i had gotten the answer right in the other video (Well aside from the fact that i did minutes vs seconds. but it still had sixty minutes vs 60 seconds and 30 minutes vs 30 seconds. So although my time was incorrect My answer was right.)
Rockwarrior2004 5 months ago
Man, I way WAY over-thinking this one lol
masterlink101 5 months ago
I feel insulted and enlightened at the same time!
Insulted coz I just realized how simple it was.
Enlightened coz I learnt something! HAZZA! :D
Gnomeslayer778 5 months ago
Lets say that all the ants are paired so that they're facing towards each other. After about a secound, they all collide switching directions and two ants fall off. The ants are once again all paired facing eachother but there are now two less ants with more space between them. When this is repeated until the the last two ants fall off, would it not have taken over a minute since the last two ants had to backtrack numerous times?
sushicartman01 5 months ago
@sushicartman01 That is what I was thinking, the first ants would fall off near instantaneously, and the last ants would fall off sometime in the future (i never bothered to do the math, just a bit of a mental picture). It makes sense, though, that if they were to pass through one another it would take between 30s and 1m....
Lagolicious 5 months ago
Twelfth!!
ipadkeyboard13 5 months ago
If the ants are spread out over the meter would there possibly be one starting off at the edge of the who if facing the correct direction would effectively jump off at 0 seconds making that the minimum time? So from any starting off position other than 50cm would have potentially less than 30 seconds to drop off depending on which way it was facing.
maikeru2406 5 months ago
@maikeru2406 Just realised the 100 ants are spread all along the meter which would give 30 seconds minimum for them all to fall off the end.
maikeru2406 5 months ago
To be honest, they won't be on the end, nor on 1cm intervals. So slightly less both times.
RandomNinjaOfEvil 5 months ago
i knew about a minimal of 30 sec (29.7) but i still don't believe for a min to be max :D
i need mathematical proof.
VoodooMalle 5 months ago
eighth!
jasperliang 5 months ago
cool
MrBaconboyJr 5 months ago
nice!
Musicmonk84 5 months ago
This seems so simple now, but I would never have been able to come up with the answer!
JBobJibFrib 5 months ago
First!!!!
TheMangos27 5 months ago
Yay I'm first to say first.
coolster01 5 months ago
Rob eastaway - I have (or should I say my big brother has) 2 of his books!! Its pretty good.
Artonox 5 months ago 7
I would never have guessed, but it makes so much sense!
MortifiedThePenguin 5 months ago 59
@MortifiedThePenguin Played splinter cell: pandora tomorrow?
Slowergrass432 5 months ago
@Slowergrass432 What gave it away? jk jk
MortifiedThePenguin 5 months ago