Calculating Max Fosh's Gold Value

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Find out on Good Bad Billionaire. Listen on bBc d. com or wherever you get your podcasts Hello and welcome to your numumbers U a brand new Maths quiz show that's all about what really counts. Numbers. I am your host, YouTuber and comedian Max Fosh, and you may know me from some of my online pranks, like the time I infiltrated an international security convention, ran for the Mayor of London, and now my greatest prank of all. Gunging an entire room of radio four listeners loock the doors Now, I am not just testing my contestants' math skills, they're also going to need a flare for facts too. It truly is a quizzer's dream. Aain for the type of person who says, I enjoyed reading my EdXL maths textbook, but you know what it's really missing? Facts about Henry VIII. Fortunately, I've scoured the country and invited these Bffins to compete for the coveted ability to say they really are in know it all. I'm joined here in the deepest, darkest depths of the Mathosphere by Katie and Paul and Alexia Lewis So Kasey, you are a maths educator, married to Paul who is a maths graduate and you met doing a maths degree Do you think you qualified for the show? Probably yeah. Yeah. I wantan to hear your lucky number. Give me a lucky number, a number that kind of best represents you two. I think our lucky number is sixteen. Okay It's two to the power four and it's four to the power two And what's interesting is it's the only number you can do that with. Have you checked all of the numbers? Yes. There's loads of them. Alexia and Lewis, welcome to the show. Alexia, you are a maths graduate working in data analysis. Your BFFs with Lewis, both big quizzes. You run an online quiz together as well. What's the best team name you guys have seen Best is hard back so. let's go worse. It's a wild west out there at team names. really. If I hear another team just where Chris sounds like quiz. Nice. Quiz Akabusi, Gout.. Right, give me your lucky number guys. What is a number that best represents you two? We've gone for thirty three. It's the first four factorial numbers added up And the factorial symbol was an exlamation mark, and I think that's kind of cool. It's surprise. I love that I love the factorial. Mind up number sixty eight because that is the final position that I was in when I entered the Mister Universe Bodybuilding competition. I genuinely did that. I came sixty eight. I found out they don't check how muscle you are when you fill out the form Let's crunch some numbers. Sting with round one, every answer counts The way this works is that I'll ask the teams a series of increasingly fiendish questions that require both general knowledge and simple arithmetic. o. There's one point for a correct answer. It's fingers on the buzzers and away we go First question. What number do you get if you take the number of stripes on the American flag and subtract the number of members of the indie band the White Stripes Alexiaa and Lewis think it's eleven thirteen Stripes minus two members of the White Stripes. Correct, absolutely right. Well done. Once to you. Anyone know what the stripes represent on the American flag? The original therial thirteen states. Yes, the thirteen colonies that won independence from Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War. We all make mistakes when we're young, but that's en m Next question, divide the number of sporting events in the dececathlon by the number of rings in the Olympic logo two, ten events in the Kathlon and five rings on the Olympic Wilda. Absolutely correct. Well done. O for Katian Paul. Next question. If you take the pH of pure water and multiply it by the number of pHs in Philadelphia Take in Pool Give me your reasoning? water is PH seven and two PH's in Philadelphia. Correct. There are two fuzz in Philadelphia. One at the beginning and one at the end there. Up next Not including the international dialing code, multiply the number of digits in a typical UK mobile number by the number of digits on a typical human body Oh, Lewis Alexia. It's at two hundred and twenty because there are eleven numbers in a phone number and there are twenty digits on the human body. Correct. well done at two hundred twenty. We thought I know that rely Wld done guys. Use those digits wisely, nice Next question. If I can get you to cast your minds to the goospel of Matthew, chapter fourteen thir to twenty one, I know I am. What do you get if you take the number of men that were fed by Jesus and divide it by the number of loaves that He used to feed them with Pul and Kat With no confidence I'm going to say one thousand. Correct. What's the reasoning? I think it must be feeding of the five thousand divided by five loves Correct, absolutely. Moving on, I want you to take the number of official time zones in China and add it to the number of official time zones in Luxembourg Alexa and Louis say it's two, one plus one. Correct. Yes, absolutely. There is one time zone in China and one in Luxembourg. So that question really was one plus one. says Who says radio four is dumbing down? Next question. What do you get if you multiply the number of hearts in an octopus by the number of cards with hearts in a standard deck 're in Louis. It's thirty nine because it's three octopus hearts and thirteen cards. Correct. Three octopus hearts times thirteen cards. An audible gas from the audience there This is liquid your numbers are. I love it O, and finally, I want going to take the number of principal cast members in the TV show Friends and multiply it by the number of hand claps in the theme tune I think Kat and Paul got in there? I would say twenty four s'ays six friends in friends and four I think four H clubs. There are six members of the cast of friends and do it with me. I think that's four. Yes. The answer is twenty four. Congratulations, Paul and Katie. That brings us to the end of round one, and my my, it's all ted up with Katie and Paul on four and Alexeia Lewis on four We have around two now, which we've called bestestimate Gestimate. I'm going give both teams two calculation conundrums. Now there's two points up for grabs for whoever comes closest to the correct answer and two bonus points if they can beat the wisdom of the crowd. Because if there's one thing the great British public has collectively It's wisdom. So before the show, we collected the average answer from our audience and if the team with the closest answer is also closer than the audience, then they will earn two bonus points. So don't let me down audience. Th those points come out of my salary. So Katie and Paul, I'm going to need to send you off to the maths Cell whilst we have Alexia and Lewis deliberate the first question Now they're gone. thank God. Lewis Alexia, you are secretly always my favourite. Okay, our first head scratcher is this Koy Parton has decided that she wants to sing her nineteen eighty three hit duet with Kenny Rogers Islands in the Stream as featured on The very best of Dolly Parton She wants a singer on every island that makes up the Philippines, even the uninhabited ones. In minutes, how long will she spend singing the song A lot for you to think about, so I'll give you a moment to kind of talk it through. So're going for we got to go a three minutes long. it's a banger. and all the bangers three minutes. I mean it's not good as the Gavin and Stacey version, but it's okay. Okay. you're going and st. we got to say it's three minutes. And then We just need to guess how many islands there are in the f. There are a lot, whichich I would call an island nation. I think it's probably loads It's in the hundreds. More I'd say higher than. Do you wantan to think a thousand? I think we're probably in like the four thousand five thousand range. Okay Okay. So let's say should we say four thousand five hundred? Okay, sure. So three minute long song. that means there's twenty An hour Yeah So how many Hours are there in that? You do the maths That's the game in a. Thanks so much. Okay, Lewis, Alexa, I'm going to have to push you for an answer here. What is your answer? I're going go for fourteen thousand. Okay, fourteen thousand minutes.Quickly guys, tell me how you got there. Bye boat She's quick. Very good, Alexia. Okay, fourteen thousand. Now let's bring back in Katie and Paul. We are also then going to send Lewis and Alexia to the mathzella. off you go down to the dungeon Okay, Katie and Paul welcome back and thank goodness you are back. I don't usually say this, but you secretly are my favourite Are you ready for your head scratcher Okay, fantastic. Now if Dolly Parton sang islands in the stream on every island in the Philippines, how long would it take her Pleasaseed you confirm we'd love to hear your workings out Okay, so how long is Islands in the street? It's probably like three to four minutes. I don't have any special knowledge of islands in the street. It's not famous for being particularly longicularly long s Yeah through three and a half minutes Let's go with that. I mean, there are probably a bunch of islands in the Philippines, that's my professional opinion. Right. It's got to be a lot, so else we wouldn't be being. two hundred and fifty. H can go even higher. Th hundred? I was gonna to say like you know go up to seven hundred. So yeah, seven hundred Why not? And let's multiply that by three and a half. So twenty one hundred and a fivealf, seven hundred is two thousand four hundred and fifty. Fantastic. two thousand four hundred fifty minutes from Katin Paul. Let's bring back Lewis Alexia chat about these answers. So Just to let you know, Kat and Paul Lewis and Alexia, they guessed fourteen thousand minutes. And meanwhile, we had Katie Paul who said two thousand four hundred fifty minutes. Well I can reveal that the song is four minutes and eight seconds long Okay, so I think both of you slightly underwcook the length of song And if you multiply that by the number of islands in the Philippines, and there are seven thousand six hundred and forty one islands You can't thirty one thousand five hundred and eighty two minutes and forty eight seconds, or twenty one days, twenty two hours, twenty two minutes and forty eight seconds of islands in the stream, which is just the spotify rap of a divorced dad. Ken Paul, you guess two thousand four hundred fifty minutes, which means you are twenty nine thousand minutes out, give or take But Alexia and Lewis, you guess fourteen thousand minutes which you are seventeen thousand minutes out. The point goes to Lewis and Alexia So you have earned two points, but did you get closer than the wisdom of the crowd? Remember, you were seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty two minutes out. Well, the crowd's collective average answer is twenty four thousand fifty nine minutes, which means they are seven thousand five hundred and twenty three minutes out, which means well done crowd, you were closer! So I'm so sorry, Alexia and Lewis, you have been reested. The ultimate cookout starts with the ultimate ingredients. At Whole Foods Market, no antibiotics ever burgers and kebabs are prepped and ready to throw on the grill. Fire up a juicy ribbeye. Grab creamy potato salad and savory flatbreads from the prepared foods department, and round it all out with three hundred sixty five brand condiments, chips and dips at everyday low prices Whole Foods Market, Make your summer sizzle How did a boycott Jimmy become a billionaire from posting videos? On good bad billionaire, we're gonna to find out how the world's most popular YouTuber, Mr. Beast made his fortune. He's buried himself in a coffin for days, counted to a hundred thousand on camera, and even recreated squid games all in an attempt to go viral on the internet. But it all started when he gave a homeless man ten thousand dollars So is he a philanthropist reshaping capitalism? Or is he just the king of the attention economy? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire. Listen on bbc d. com or wherever you get your podcasts by the crowd this time. Let's have one more bestestimate guestimate, shall we? Louis and Alexia, you are off to the mas cellar with you this time Kat Paul we are now alone Here is your second bestest of at Gestimate scenario. For this question, we'll be looking at some different figures, specifically mine So my mummy, sorry, mum, says that I'm worth my weight in gold But how much would I be worth in gold using my weight in kilograms today Fully closed and at the current price of gold in pounds sterling Don't let the fact that I'm sat right here make you feel in any way uncomfortable as you discuss my wed How much You payid for a kilogram of gold for I don't really have anywhere to put it Yeah a gold is one of those things that like people always say is valuable so it's good to invest in. but does that mean the value goes up and down a lot or Yes, by the second mainly. Right. So when when is this like the current price like literally right nowiter right now we took it at midday today How about you start with my weight? That seems like an easier area to. Iteems like the bit we can attack here Lovely choice of word there Pul So I think a human being wasars somewhere around Seventy kilograms. Is that right? Does that sound right? Like an average human being? I think the price of gold, we're going to be so wrong on that it doesn't matter if we'rereated wrong and how much a person wears. We're definitely going to be very wrong on that. I would have gone higher, I don't know. likeike an average, I don't know Mumy says I'm better than average, to be fair. It feels weird looking at you to try. I mean, you literally asked us to do this. Yeah. No, I did I did. please do Max is tallish And that's why I put on my dating profiles of a regular build. So oing for average man. Yeah. and like the height the height adds a bit on the average, so seventy five. All right, now R is a kilo of gold. Gold. So if you've got like a solid gold ring, Yes it's Is it fifty grames? fory grams. I've literally weigh my wedding ring my hand and then just remembered my hand isn't an accurate scale. Yeah, let's say fifty grams in a ring. and a kilo is twentywenty of those Two hundred of those We are going to have to push you for answer, guys And a ring would probably cost like a solid gold ring might be like what, fifty quid. I've in my vast experience of buying solid gold rings. so The price of gold per kilo would then be Tens of thousands thousands. Okay. Still doesn't seem like enough, but. So if it's ten thousand times seventy five, that's seventy Five te thousand. one hundred te thousand?ike a million pounds. A bit less than a million pounds? Yeah, I'll sound smarter if we. Nine hundred thousand pounds. Nine hundred thousand pounds from Katie and Paul. Thank you very much. Now it's time to give Lewis Alexia a chance to boost my self esteem. So to the cellar with you, Katie and Paul, to think about what you've done. And welcome back, Lewis Alexia. Okay, Lewis Alexia, welcome back. Are you ready? To talk about my weight? Ites doesn't matter I'm going gonna ask anyway. So the question is this, how much would I be worth in gold using my weight in kilos today, fully closed and at the current price of gold in pound sterling? How much does a man weigh I reckon a man weighs maybe ninety KG. Okay, love that. I don't want to give my weight away weigh but I think you're a little bit heavier me potentially. Maybe the same weight and I reckon it's. Okay like this. Now I know one thing ld stuff. love gold. You know that if they had all the gold in the world it would like fit in like a swimming pool. Right That's really that's rare stuff, and it's really heavy. Yeah. So how much is it worth? I know that every time they do it, like a really expensive footballer is never They're more expensive a footler than they would. Okay this is great. Yeah. I know that. So. But then footballers are really expensive, so it doesn't really mean So I think probably a kilo You've said that so many times. Kilo of gold is probably in the thousands Is this pounds, which We're doing pounds English English pounds. English pounds stterling, but I want my weighting kiloos.es It's confusing It iss confusing. confusing let's say I think let's go mid mills and then Alexa is going to just say a number one hundred and eighty million That's just so much higher than I suggested. You all heard that. mill millions. Yeah our or five is as I said. So I can I say your final taking that? I think should, because it's funnier. Okay, what is your finance? I'm going to push you for answer here guys We are going to go for thirty two and a half million pounds Okay, is this based on any mathematical equation at all There was lots of maths that happened on the paper. Yeah, And then it was just looking at each other in the eyes and panicking back. Okay, fantastic. Okay, let's bring everyone back together and find out the results Okay Alexia and Lewis, you said thirty two point five million pounds Paul and Katie, you said nine hundred thousand pounds. I have just weighed myself and I am eighty nine point seven kilos. So Katie and Paul, you said I was seventy five, so I am feeling scaary And today's price of gold per kilo is one hundred and nine thousand three pounds and twenty five pence. And I know that because I'm minted. So that means that I am worth nine million seven hundred seventy seven thousand five hundred ninety one pounds and fifty two pounds. That means that the winner for this round is Paul and Katie So you were eight point eight million out, give or or an order of magnitude, but whatever Yes. But did you get closer than the wisdom of the crowd and the crowd I'm worth a massive fifteen million, three hundred ninety thousand two hundred and eighty eight, whichich means the crowd are out by about five point eight million, whichich means the crowd takes it once again! So at the end of that round, that means Lewis and Alexeia, you got two points and Katie and Paul you also got two points which brings us up to the total scores and it's all still tied up. Louis and Alexia with six and Katie and Paul with six. Now it's time for round three, higher or lower. I'm going to give you both a base number, which for this episode is the number ten. And against the clock, I'm going to ask you a series of questions with numerical answers. All I need to know is if they are higher or lower than the number ten. The aim is to build the longest possible chain of correct answers So if you get an asked incorrect, the chain goes back to zero. And there is two points for whichever team can create the longest chain in sixty seconds. Katen Paul, you're up first. One minute on the clock. Y time starts now. The standard height of a football goal in feet Correct, it's eight feet lower than ten. The number of UK prime mininisters who went to Eton Higher there? Yeah higher. Higher. cororrect, twenty Prime Ministers. The age when billionaire Warren Buffett started paying income tax let's say lower Lower is funnier. yeah. lower. Lower. Inorrect. He was fourteen, it was higher. In weight the number of pounds in a stone er higher. Correct. fourteen pounds. The number of consonants in Carol Vorderman Lower Correct, nine continents, the number of UK number one singles by the Spice Girls Lower, I think lower lower lower. cororrect. Nine. The number of noble gases in the periodic table ' Rows, ye lower. Correct. seeven. The number of Oscars won by the nineteen ninety seven film, Titanic I'm sorry, I can't give it to you, but the answer there was higher with eleven. But there was someice nice chaining done before the end there, which means at the end of sixty seconds, you created a chain of four correct answers Okay Alexia and Lewis. You are next. You've got one minute on the clock. Are these higher or lower than ten? Your time starts now. The number of players in a rugby union team. Her. Correct. fifteen. The number of episodes of forty towerser Correct, twelve. In science, the number of flavours of quark, six lower Correct Excluding Pluto the number of planets in the solar system. A lower? Correct. E. Excluding Pluto the number of official Disney princesses. now Her Crette fit thirteen. The number of twenty first century UK Prime Ministers One T three. L lower, it's be lower Correct. eight. The number of Roger Fedder is Wimbledon's men's singles titles ' going We're playing now higher Incorrect. eight. The number of children Queen Victoria had. She had nine, I think. Lower. Correct, nine. Jutive number of members of the sugar babes. So nine C. twenty seven.. A Cumulative. sorry. Six, lower. Correct, lower. six. The average. Congratulations, Low Alexia Well, at the end of that, Alexia and Lewis, you created a chain of six correct answers. Congratulations. So going into the final round, Katie and Paul, you are on six points, but Alexeia and Lewis, you're on eight points. We've arrived at our final round, which is facts and figures. I'm going to give you an extraordinary fact that's also a frankly useless and clue to answering a devilishly difficult maths question So for example, I might ask you for the number of times that I, Max Fosh, have openly wept whilst watching a Paddington film The equation would also be one hundred and seventy two divided by four, and the answer would be forty three And counting. Okay, fingers on buzzers please. Here we go. First up, I'm looking for the number of Satanists in the town of Bungy, Suffolk, according to the twenty twenty one census, or nine hundred ten divided by thirteen. Paul and Katie. Seventy? Correct. the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel or Oh, Louis Alexia, six, six six. Correct, six, six six the Satus of Bungy will be pleased to know if that's the answer Okay, next up, Kate Winslet's UK shoe size or the Cube routot of seven hundred and twenty nine Katie and Paul died Correct Ka, did you know that because you knew Kate w wass at the shoe s or the sn? I just know all the cube numbers. Oh, thank goodness for that. Okay, next, how many areas around the British Isles are there in the shipping forecast Oh three hundred and forty one divided by eleven Haitian Pul thirty one Correct. I have my own shipping forecast. It starts the beginning of every season of Stricty. Who's gonna get together? We never know! Are they married? Let's not ask. Now, I'm looking for the percentage of British teenagers who think Sherlock Holmes is a real historical figure or five hundred twenty two divided by nine Katian Paul, fifty eight fifty eight is correct, congratulations