28 Minutes Later - The Maths of Zombies

[livedandletdie]

The guide to surviving a zombie apocalypse.

1. Have a storage filled with baked beans they never get old, filled with Maltose and filled with H2 and O2.

2. Now you have an large amount of water and a large amount of food and if you had some coal you can make beer.

3. Wait it out will only take 18 months. As Zombies decay at an exponential rate they will die out. And if you had a small group of young healthy individuals you can now procreate to fill up the human population again.

[ifsey]

Brady's dead? But what about sixty symbols!?

[singingbanana]

@ifsey Here's a behind the scenes story: I was trying to wind up my friend Barney. Then Brady phoned me just before we did this, and I said Brady by accident.

[GetMeThere1]

This is a good video, and a good public service. Still, I feel it's most important to emphasize that zombies MUST be shot in the head to permanently eradicate them. I worry that people may not know that.

[VultureProduction]

In the words of Fin the human, Algebraic!

[54n141n3n]

I agree your equation works on early stages of epidemy, but on later stage, we should use population dynamics. Because zombies cant live forever, food extends their life, if they eat lot of humans and convert them, there will not be many humans left to eat. Which will result in famine and population shrink.

So in the end, usualy those equations are heading towards equlibrium, so if there will be zombie apocalypse, human race wont extinct, we will co-exist with zombies, at least for a while.

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

I dont get it. We cannot possibly know any of this math to be true because we havent got any real zombies to test their behavior or abilities.

[11Agamemnon235]

Yeah,my professor for DEs 2 years ago told the class about this article. It's actually pretty cool! And it has serious applications: the creation of more realistic zombie acopocalypse movies.

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

@11Agamemnon235 I think we have enough of those.

[anticorncob6]

This was truly awesome! I'm always excited to see a new singingbanana video.

Thumbs down if you agree!

[EpicSuccuss]

you slow them down by a half it doubles the time it takes them to get to you

I think I kind of figured that out :)

[anticorncob6]

@EpicSuccuss How did you figure that out?

[IcEye89]

Why is it that so many funny people in Britain have connections to Cambridge University? Is this the only College run by clowns? I mean sure, you have Rowan Atkinson coming from Oxford but the list at Cambridge is endless, well more or less. Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Alexander Armstrong, most of the blokes from Monty Python... or are these other comedians simply unknown to me?

[Janox81]

Singingbanana, can you please do an explanation video for mismag's latest mathematical trick? It's called "Enigma" and it's really an amazing trick :)

[singingbanana]

@Janox81 Mismag and I have been chatting about that one. The maths is, any position can be written as a sum of powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32). But someone has found an easier way to remember it, I don't know if mismag will do an update video.

[Janox81]

@singingbanana Ok i found the video :) Thanks for the reply!

[gC222SA]

that was genuinely creepy near the end

if he had only started running while making this video...

[mylesswanson]

awkward...but, james, you make a very good zombie. quite violent, im impressed.

[TheMagicroar]

wtf? :P

[eskimokid]

James could you please please please explain this card trick? It's a maths trick and you're the first person that sprang to mind to ask to solve it! watch?v=HAsaVZi5XLs&feature=fe­edu

[Chazzi27]

Awesome vid James...love the higher production values on this one...even though I still love you other vids too lol

[animewisher]

glad to see another mathematical approach to zombies :D me and my bro have been doing the math, and skills since i was 15, im so glad someone else isnt doing "just survive" but the mathematics of it!

[0554844777]

Fractions can kill any creature, use it !

[illustriouschin]

This model only works with mathematical zombies that exist as a single point with instant acceleration and no mass.

[Drummermean2]

A zombie attack can be model as an infection, like an outbreak of flu or measles.

Change grammar. :)

Good video, keep them coming!

[IhaveWoodforSheep]

What happens if we take into account the time required to bite/feed? Is the drunkard's walk really a random walk, by which I mean brownian, or is it somewhat directed?

[guppiemagic101]

.......awkward......

[MattTheGreat2008]

Lets just hope you don't get infected because then you'll kill us all in no time!

[doe791]

I'm prepared for a Zombie attack thanks to a singing banana.

[kiIIamaim]

did i hear a felhound sound from wow

[alkalait]

In World War Z, a character responsible for the eradication of 'walkers' sacrificed some part of the live population by using it as a decoy to slow down the walkers from reaching the. This might make even more sense as there is some optimum percentage of decoys that would maximise the remaining population / death probability ratio.

[fabian696969]

zombies sound like dogs. WHO KNEW!

[oEQjet]

This seems REALLY trivial.

[singingbanana]

@oEQjet It isn't trivial, we're just summarising the conclusions - because it's for fun.

[FHomeBrew]

So it's better to run than to try 'n slow them down lol :p

[singingbanana]

@FHomeBrew Mainly.

[FHomeBrew]

@singingbanana Did you take into account that usually, at least in quite a few zombie movies, the zombies are active hunters?

[singingbanana]

@FHomeBrew These are Romero Zombies, they stagger in random directions. That's the best kind of zombie, don't giving me this running nonsense.

[FHomeBrew]

@singingbanana In that case I'd rather not stand in a spot that acts as an attractor :p Any advice on the weapon of choice?

[crazymurdav]

Ah, I love all your videos.

To think I started watching, those many years ago, simply because you had Rottentroll videos.

[singingbanana]

@crazymurdav Ah, I miss those videos too.

[cayirci1453]

Well my English is bad and you guys are talking to fast :D I guess I need some subtitle :)

[FHomeBrew]

@cayirci1453 There's the "transcribe audio" feature. That should work good enough. :-)

[cayirci1453]

@FHomeBrew You should try it, it's funny :D

[TheRealMaxion]

@cayirci1453 It's all written in the video description.

[ThomasEWoolley]

This is exactly how Romero started y'know :). Marvellous editing.

[GammahooX]

I'm not sure...I'm afraid we need to use... MATH! DUM DUM DUM (c) Bender :D

[pizzagek]

1:11 : it's the resurrection of Steve Jobs o.O

[monkeyman822]

weapons of maths destruction

[Zomcrotic]

=D awesome

[Phluffey]

I love how during the video you can see James in the background just slowly becoming the Math Zombie...

[JollyRodgerMagic]

Little did the zombies know, we knew there only weakness....MAAAAAAAATH!!!

[Zeldakitteh]

Finding it hard to follow along what is being said. Could it not be done in a room fit for recording?

[someonep93]

@Zeldakitteh Check the description, it's almost identical to what's being said.

[Butt4cak3]

We need weapons of math instruction!

[darkdudironaji]

@Butt4cak3 That was a bad joke in the movie, and it's a bad joke now

[zlobniyrustam]

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[oliethefolie]

Together, we shall destroy the zombies with maths!

[March1997GTX495]

5th !!

[theindfla]

what a great vid!

[GamemakingDude]

Nice video, will definitely read the paper! You should make more videos like this James :D. Keep up the good work buddy.

[hyattbabe1]

Wow

[Phluffey]

Btw James you should do some more acting.

[singingbanana]

@Phluffey Because I'm so bad at it? I agree.

[ABombs1]

@singingbanana I think that's a requirement in most applications for major movies since 2000-ish

[Phluffey]

First.

Now I feel silly.