Johnny Ball
speaker
103 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2012
last heard May 2013
Johnny Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right, dividing 17 by 2.
Well, in essence, all even numbers divide evenly by 2 very easily.
So let's go one less and call it 16.
Half of 16 is 8.
And now you've taken one off, so half of 1 is a half.
So the half of 17 is 8 and a half.
Half of 17 pounds is 8 pounds 50.
It's depressingly similar to us.
They laugh when they're tickled.
Do you know what?
At any time, we're only seven foot from a human.
That's hilarious!
What is the number before infinity?
That would be the biggest number of all.
And you can't have a biggest number of all because if you had the biggest number of all and added one to it, it would be a bigger number still.
So how can I explain it?
I've got some sweets here.
And these sweets come in a bag, and you could easily count the number of sweets in a bag, couldn't you?
Right?
So that's a finite number of sweets in the bag, and that's a strange word, finite.
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