{"id":329,"date":"2008-11-25T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/25\/video-tutorial-infinite-series\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:50:35","slug":"video-tutorial-infinite-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/25\/video-tutorial-infinite-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Video tutorial: Infinite series"},"content":{"rendered":"In this short video, I explore the math behind this joke:\r\n\r\nAn infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.\r\n<pre>  The 1st orders a 1     beer.\r\n  The 2nd orders   1\/2 a beer.\r\n  The 3rd orders   1\/4 a beer.\r\n  ...\r\n  The bartender says\r\n  \"You're all idiots\",\r\n  and pours two beers.<\/pre>\r\nWe will make sure MATLAB shows values as fractions and not decimals and plot the cumulative some of this series\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438010001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/25\/video-tutorial-infinite-series\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/8e72fba2-04f4-48e0-a360-63e4c2013e8b\/7924151a-cc4d-449e-8fa8-a9a4788ac012\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">3:37<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>In this short video, I explore the math behind this joke:\r\n\r\nAn infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.\r\n  The 1st orders a 1     beer.\r\n  The 2nd orders   1\/2 a beer.\r\n  The 3rd orders  &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/25\/video-tutorial-infinite-series\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}