Will YouTube Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8
Interactive, Publisher, Tom Scott, Video, YouTube
In the URL of each YouTube video is the 11-character video ID, unique for each video. Can they ever run out? Just how many videos can YouTube handle? To work it out, we need to talk about counting systems, and about something called Base 64.
30 March 2016 Edit: 12 November 2017
- Topics:
- Learning across the curriculum, Critical and creative thinking, Number, Base (number systems), Probability
- Content Type:
- Interactive, Publisher, Tom Scott, Video, YouTube
- NSW Mathematics Standard Stage 6 Syllabus
- Statistical Analysis, MS-S2 Relative Frequency and Probability
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