Ep 17: Big Numbers
Synopsis
Who knew numbers could be so large! This episode of Everything STEAM hosts Standup Comedian and Mathematician, Matthew Broussard. For this podcast, we plan to explain the numbers scale…. showing the difference in size between a thousand and a million, or a million compared to a billion! So on and so forth.
Then, we plan to give very interesting examples of big numbers, such as the amount of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy… the approximate number of grains of sand that make up a beach and the amount of molecules that are in one singular breath of air. We’ll finish out the episode talking about big numbers in probability! Examples may include the ‘n’th number of times you flip a coin or even draw from a deck of cards. So enjoy an entertaining, practical and fact-packed episode on the big numbers that surround us.
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Meet the Guest Star
Matthew Broussard
Matt is a disgraced financial analyst forced into stand up comedy. The byproduct of a Cajun chemist and Jewish microbiologist, he holds a degree in computational mathematics that he always manages to bring up (just did it!) and is fully aware of how douchey he looks. His comedy is heady, self-effacing, and weirdly… educational? He's performed on the Tonight Show, Conan, Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle, the Comedy Central Half Hour, and some stuff with MTV2 he doesn’t like to talk about. You can catch him in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The League, The Mindy Project, and alongside Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in the film Here Today. And last but not least, he is the creator of the webcomic and puzzle app, Monday Punday. Matt's Standup Comedy (YouTube)
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Matthew Broussard and our Host, Sam Stanford Talk about Big Numbers and Physical Applications!
