Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Do check out Bobby's video. It's a work of art. But be warned: it contains adult themes and some strong language. So if you watch my videos with young people, maybe watch Bobby's when they're not around. youtube.com/watch?v=QHi479xN_po
And a huge thanks to my good friend BEC HILL who introduced me to Bobby. PS Hello to everyone reading this from A Problem Squared.
UPDATE: The envelope of pin-board paraphernalia has been claimed! twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1638855936923009026?s=46&t=EVDbN01K_p7T27Gd23R0bw
First person to find me IN A PUBLIC SPACE can have the pin-up board (without the pins or board). I've put all the bits in an envelop and will carry it with me whenever I'm in public. Don't try to hunt me down at home. It'll be weird.
I think this is the original claim that it was the mid-point of his life. From April 2019.
mjjcommunity.com/threads/unusual-michael-jackson-coincidence-how.142918
Here is the quote about the time of day his hair caught fire: "at the Shrine Auditorium Friday night"
upi.com/Archives/1984/01/28/Michael-Jackson-hospitalized-after-fireworks-mishap-on-set-of-Pepsi-commercial/9136444114000
Here is the regulation governing daylight saving time in Indiana when Michael Jackson was born:
1957: "The General Assembly votes to make Central time the official time of the state but permit any community to switch to daylight-saving time during the summer."
eu.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indiana-time-zone-history-central-eastern-daylight-savings-time/2126300002
This website claims Gar did switch to daylight saving in 1958, specifically: "27 Apr 1958 - Time Zone Change (CST → EST)" but I'm not sure where that information has come from.
timeanddate.com/time/change/usa/indianapolis?year=1958
Huge thanks to my Patreon supports who keep in strings and pins. Join and you'll have a head-start the next I foolishly encourage the internet to hunt me down. patreon.com/standupmaths
CORRECTIONS
- None yet, let me know if you spot anything!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: standupmaths.com
US book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker
UK book: mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback
Do check out Bobby's video. It's a work of art. But be warned: it contains adult themes and some strong language. So if you watch my videos with young people, maybe watch Bobby's when they're not around. youtube.com/watch?v=QHi479xN_po
And a huge thanks to my good friend BEC HILL who introduced me to Bobby. PS Hello to everyone reading this from A Problem Squared.
UPDATE: The envelope of pin-board paraphernalia has been claimed! twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1638855936923009026?s=46&t=EVDbN01K_p7T27Gd23R0bw
First person to find me IN A PUBLIC SPACE can have the pin-up board (without the pins or board). I've put all the bits in an envelop and will carry it with me whenever I'm in public. Don't try to hunt me down at home. It'll be weird.
I think this is the original claim that it was the mid-point of his life. From April 2019.
mjjcommunity.com/threads/unusual-michael-jackson-coincidence-how.142918
Here is the quote about the time of day his hair caught fire: "at the Shrine Auditorium Friday night"
upi.com/Archives/1984/01/28/Michael-Jackson-hospitalized-after-fireworks-mishap-on-set-of-Pepsi-commercial/9136444114000
Here is the regulation governing daylight saving time in Indiana when Michael Jackson was born:
1957: "The General Assembly votes to make Central time the official time of the state but permit any community to switch to daylight-saving time during the summer."
eu.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indiana-time-zone-history-central-eastern-daylight-savings-time/2126300002
This website claims Gar did switch to daylight saving in 1958, specifically: "27 Apr 1958 - Time Zone Change (CST → EST)" but I'm not sure where that information has come from.
timeanddate.com/time/change/usa/indianapolis?year=1958
Huge thanks to my Patreon supports who keep in strings and pins. Join and you'll have a head-start the next I foolishly encourage the internet to hunt me down. patreon.com/standupmaths
CORRECTIONS
- None yet, let me know if you spot anything!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: standupmaths.com
US book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker
UK book: mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback

![Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%
YES, the improvement should be 40,832,277,770%, not what I say in the video. The 408,322,778 multiple was correct and I did the percentage the wrong way. There will not be a follow-up video to correct that.
The improvement was to my code from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v AfhLQfb6w
This is episode 038 of the A Problem Squared podcast which started it all: https://aproblemsquared.libsyn.com/038-fldxt-in-wordle-and-improv-tact-hurdle
Here is Benjamin Paaßens full grid of all results and techniques used. It also has links to all the code as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11sUBkPSEhbGx2K8ah6WbGV62P8ii5l5vVeMpkzk17PI/edit#gid=0
The article by encody I mentioned: https://medium.com/geeklaunch/how-to-speed-up-your-code-224-444-739-using-graphs-cc37dc395c0c
This is the reverse-frequency alphabet. Which is frequency in words, not in use (which would allow for frequency of word use; this list counts each word once).
QXJZVFWBKGPMHDCYTLNUROISEA
And whynot, a whole bunch of code. All of it is better than mine. All of it. (Even if you ran it all sequentially.)
Benjamin Paassen [bpaassen]
https://gitlab.com/bpaassen/five_clique
Sylvester Hesp [oisyn]
https://github.com/oisyn/parkerwords
Phire [phire]
https://github.com/phire/five_clique
Neil Coffey [neilcoffey]
https://github.com/neilcoffey/FunStuff/tree/main/WordleFiveWordFinder
Richard Ebeling [He3lixxx]
https://github.com/He3lixxx/five-words-five-letters
Phillip Alday [palday]
https://github.com/palday/FiveLetterWorda.jl
Diggory Blake [Diggsey]
https://github.com/Diggsey/five_words/tree/master
Orson Peters [orlp]
https://github.com/orlp/matt-parker-five-letter-clique/blob/master/src/main.rs
Bryan Redd [ae6nr]
https://github.com/ae6nr/25letters
Pablo Yaggi [pyaggi]
https://github.com/pyaggi/WordStats
Leonardo Taglialegne [miniBill]
https://github.com/miniBill/parkerrust
Nathan Baulch [NathanBaulch]
https://gist.github.com/NathanBaulch/cc26755dc89685fa209bf958e484c60d
Stefan Pochmann [pochmann]
https://replit.com/@pochmann/5words538?v=1
Jacob [encody]
https://github.com/encody/jotto-problem
Gé Weijers [gweijers]
https://github.com/gweijers/wordle_cover
David A. Dalrymple [davidad]
https://github.com/davidad/five-letters
Alex Recuenco [recuenco_alex]
https://github.com/alexrecuenco/five_clique
Kristin Paget [KristinPaget]
https://github.com/kristinpaget/fivewords
Ilya Nikolaevsky [IlyaNikolaevsky]
https://github.com/ilyanikolaevsky/five_words
Cheers to my Patreons for helping enable these videos. Without them test running all that code Id never know how much better an iPad is than me. Im sure Ill need Patreon help again soon; you can join the team here: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths
CORRECTIONS
- Ha, I got the percentage around the wrong way. Should be 40,832,277,770% better.
- Yes, I missed the binary digit for the A in BREAD and everyone in the live premier chat noticed. Sorry about that. 🍞
- Let me know if you spot any other mistakes!
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Some graphics by Benjamin Paaßen
Written and performed by Matt 32 days later Parker
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c33AZBnRHks/mqdefault.jpg)








