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uh one two three test test test if you're going to do videos about numbers these are the ones you would love to do as far as the computer's concerned the simply doesn't exist don't ask me to say it we could be here till next week 16 is a very special number to me it's my actual favorite number so this is called a truncated icosahedron it's five-sided it's a pentagon let's try it out I'm going to try and play this as well you'll notice the difference I just realized that there is a number that I see every day when I enter my office and this number is and well if you need to go to the toilet you get up and you have to move past all the other people I'm in the Southeast corner of England today and I'm talking to you about a number with bit of a difference it is an antique 1980s [Music] television they get to Fig it they get to 20 sheep and they couldn't coope with that yeah thanks for pointing out out thanks for bringing that up and as a child I was fascinated by this absolutely fascinated but it's taken me 15 years to get to the point where I can explain it to you