Finally! Fun With Math and Summations Part 2 of 2

At long last the anticipated part 2 of my summation video! This video was supposed to be about 15 minutes long - I had to take a few shortcuts to get it to fit in the time allotment.

Hope you enjoy it! I probably won't do another "straight up" math video for a little while - if I get the inclination I'll do another Project Euler or programming video.

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[my2livers]

Dude! Part 1 was easy enough to solve quickly, but then I used to be a mathematician. In part 2, I managed to "prove" that the summation from i=1 to n of i^2 = 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + ..... + n^2. All on my own. Guess I've forgotten a thing or 2! Thanks for reminding me how much I love math. I haven't slept in 2 days.....

[godshiva]

@my2livers Any time ;) I should do more programming / math videos. They just take an absurd amount of time to do.

[AlderDragon]

@godshiva I like your math/programming videos. You should just wing it if they take too long to put together ;)

[Algebra1Calculus2]

hey I also have a summations video. If anyone is interested. but it's kind of long :)

[k1ngross]

speaking a bit fast there

[dmwalker24]

Interesting stuff. I wish youtube didn't have the stupid 10 minute limit. I'm sure the video could have been much longer, and for my own understanding of the concepts I wish it had. Most math instruction is so abstract. "Here's some numbers now do stuff with them" I really enjoy examples that operate on real tangible scenarios like this.