Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Huge thanks to Jane Street for becoming my channel's principle sponsor. If you're curious, this is what they do:
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This is my deep dive into the log(1 + 2 + 3) = log(1) + log(2) + log(3) log troll meme. I'm not going to link to any of the online discussions incase I accidentally encourage brigading. If you want to join in constructively, you can google them.

We make Think Maths teaching resources to go with Stand-up Maths videos. For this one we have a worksheet of questions you can give your students before they watch the video. Plus I provide my excel file for the plot of the max values.
think-maths.co.uk/standupmaths-videos?yt-logs-meme#logs-meme

CORRECTIONS
- I mis-spoke and said "two" instead of "four" and "one" instead of "zero" but tried to fix both with titles in the edit. Sorry I did not have time to re-film it!
- Yes, my camera autofocus is annoying. I swear it has broken somehow; I thought I'd set it up right this time. I think Jane Street might have to get me a new camera.
- Let me know if you spot anything else!


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Michael Lehenbauer
Richard Dickins
Barry Salter
Maksym Borodin
James Williams
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Music by Howard Carter
Filming and editing by Matt Parker
Design by Simon Wright

MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
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