one,1,history,math,music,binary,zero,0 The Story Of One (Terry Jones BBC number documentary, 59:04)

The Story Of One (Terry Jones BBC number documentary, 59:04)

posted by benjee

2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 23265 views

tags: one, 1, history, math, music, binary, zero, 0

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The story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones (of Monty Python's Flying Circus) goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world's simplest number. Using computer graphics, "One" is brought to life, in all his various guises. One's story reveals how celebrated civilizations in history were achieved, where our modern numbers came from and how the invention of zero changed the world forever; and saved us from having to use Roman numerals today.

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Before anyone (Farhad!?) starts bitching about the channels;
music: he explains maths in music and plays a pot duet
politics: contains a lot of poilitical history
comedy: it's Terry Jones (of Monty Python?!)
cute: the CGI animated numbers
geek: it's a historical documentary on numbers?!

written by benjee

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You are really pushing the limits of the channel system. Am surprised you didn't throw in NSFW as well...

written by Farhad2000

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cute was more intended for children/animal videos, thus the kitten popping out of the sift. i don't think cgi numbers qualify
music was intended for music videos/live performances (i think), typically including the name of the song/performer in the title, tags, or comments. otherwise damned near every single video here would be tagged with a 'music' tag.

written by pho3n1x

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Removed Cute & Music - it was tenuous, and more to frustrate Farhad than anything else!

written by benjee

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Clearly your attempts ended in FAILURE.

written by Farhad2000

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Clearly, it was an astounding SUCCESS - as it annoyed you: "You are really pushing the limits of the channel system. Am surprised you didn't throw in NSFW as well..." The change of channels was for Pho3n1x - not you Farhad!

written by benjee

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Watch your tongue... Acolyte...

written by Farhad2000

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Expired in Queue (4 day limit)

written by siftbot

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this is cool.

*save

written by plastiquemonkey

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Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Sunday 19th November 2006 (save called by gold star member plastiquemonkey)

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*promote

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 30th November 2006 (promotion called by gold star member NickyP)

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