How to order 43 Chicken McNuggets - Numberphile
We're exploring the world of Chicken Nuggets and Frobenius numbers. 43 has long been a special number in the world of McNugget mathematics, but 11 is also important! More links & stuff in full...
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BRADY HARAN: 43 is a very special number with chicken nuggets. It's the highest number that you can't make by using the standard packs that you get from McDonald's. The packs are 9, 6 and 20. There's fewer of those numbers that you can't make. You can't make one, because they don't sell them in ones. You can't have 2 or 3. But 43 is the biggest. Yeah. So 43 isn't the only number that you can't make using these Chicken McNugget numbers. There's actually 22 different numbers you can't make. So the first one is 1. You can't make 1. They don't sell them in packs of 1. 2, we can't make. We can't make 3 or 4 or 5. But we can make 6. They do sell packs of 6. So we can make 6. But the...
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BRADY HARAN: 43 is a very special number with chicken nuggets. It's the highest number that you can't make by using the standard packs that you get from McDonald's. The packs are 9, 6 and 20. There's fewer of those numbers that you can't make. You can't make one, because they don't sell them in ones. You can't have 2 or 3. But 43 is the biggest. Yeah. So 43 isn't the only number that you can't make using these Chicken McNugget numbers. There's actually 22 different numbers you can't make. So the first one is 1. You can't make 1. They don't sell them in packs of 1. 2, we can't make. We can't make 3 or 4 or 5. But we can make 6. They do sell packs of 6. So we can make 6. But the...
