[size=15pt]Kim Kardashian may not have broken the Internet, but Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ literally just did[/size]

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“Gangnam Style,” the K-pop sensation that basically owned 2012, has been viewed so many millions of times that, two years later, YouTube’s view counter literally broke trying to tally it.

The site is upgrading that tool as a result, a spokesperson wrote on YouTube’s Google+ page. That means that in the future, YouTube will be able to accommodate videos with more than 2.147 billion views — which was, previously, the most views YouTube imagined a video could ever receive.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0#t=224

But that seems kind of weird and arbitrary, right? There are more than 7 billion people on the planet, and only 40 percent of them currently use the Internet, and more are signing on every day — YouTube’s view potential seems, if not limitless, at least very large. Why even set a view count ceiling? Why does this thing exist?

The short answer: MATH. (And if you never envisioned a world where “Gangnam Style” could teach you something on that subject, allow me to remind you that this is the Internet.)

We tend to think of numbers as infinite things — which of course, they are. In grade school, when you made number lines, you probably put 0 in the middle and stretched numbers going to infinity on the right and left.

To read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/03/kim-kardashian-may-not-have-broken-the-internet-but-psys-gangham-style-literally-just-did/?tid=sm_fb

Youtube on Google+:

We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. "Gangnam Style" has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!

Hover over the counter in PSY's video to see a little math magic and stay tuned for bigger and bigger numbers on YouTube. 

Guykhena:

wow,this is just a further proof that Humanity loves crap.