ED COPELAND: Hello. BRADY HARAN: I was going to ask you to describe this in terms that you would describe it to, say, your daughter. And then I remembered your daughter does economics at Cambridge. ED...
TONY PADILLA: The guys at Aperiodical launched a little competition to find the integest sequence 2013. It's a little bit fun. It's not a serious thing. But basically, they've...
JAMES GRIME: As an antipathian, how big is a billion? TONY PADILLA: No, I'm not even going to go there, man. JAMES GRIME: Well, what were you taught? What were you taught at school? TONY...
TONY PADILLA: If you actually tried to picture Graham's number in your head, then your head would collapse to form a black hole. That's not just some sort of crazy sort of pictorial...
TONY PADILLA: We're going to do Buffon's needle trick. So this is named after Georges Louie Leclerc, and this is a method that he proposed for working out pi. So basically he proposed...
TONY PADILLA: What's going on in London? Well, I don't know just some small event known as the Olympic Games is going on at London at the moment. Last night. In particular, there was a...