The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)

4 million views for an old codger giving a lecture about arithmetic?? What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing about what he (Albert Bartlett) has to say.

I introduce this video to my students as "Perhaps the most boring video you'll ever see, and definitely the most important." But then again, after watching it most said that if you followed along with what the presenter (a professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder) is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, because it is so damn compelling.

Entire playlist for the lecture: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

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[Heini Honk]

I like him and what he has to say! Let wise old men like him rule the world, and not money-hungry, bellicose politicians!

[naraku1444]

the number is 92,233,656,368,681,975,808 grains of wheat

[invertedlow]

Is that some kind of church science? Very funny, thanks.

[Foxstab]

What cockamamie bullshit are you spouting here?

[Foxstab]

2^64-1 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,615

[ImA Real]

Petroleum reserves continue to increase annually at a faster rate than they are used, The supply is not "finite" as you contend. Oil is a renewable resource. It increases as life on earth increases. Scientists now know that oil takes less tha a year to be created, not millions. Oil reserves represent only a microscopic portion of of the earth's mass. The earth's mass is also not finite. Formulas to estimate oil reserves are complex accounting scams used to get tax breaks and increase profits.

[marketanarchist2011]

DO the same thing using tetration instead of exponention.

2 ^ 63 = yer result

2 ^^ 63 = PROFIT

[marketanarchist2011]

Thank god the technology is also advancing at an exponential rate. The energy crisis isn't a problem since 97'. And in regards to computing, imagine what would happen if programmers would break the Dijkstra Law.

[Matt Way]

Every coder should have a deep comprehension of this stuff thanks to big O notation.

[Michelle Campbell]

I liked this as a kid: Offer a million dollars up front if someone will in return give you a penny and then double the amount every day for 31 days. Day 1 = $0.01 of course. Day 10 = $10.24 hummm. Day 20 the total is up to $10,485.76. But by day = 31, you have accumulated $21,474,836.48. Not bad for a months’ time and a million up front. Numbers are pretty simple and all you need are the basics. The mind is linear and baulks at exponents realistically. Total number = [(2^n)-1]

[chiparoo222]

WonderingMind42 - you judged this professor and class correctly,