The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle

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Solution: https://youtu.be/6dTyOl1fmDo Light-based solution: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM Help fund future projects: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown An equally valuable form of support is to simply share some of the videos. Special thanks to these supporters: http://3b1b.co/clacks-thanks New to this channel? It's all about teaching math visually. Take a look and see if there's anything you'd like to learn. NY Times blog post about this problem: https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/pi/ The original paper by Gregory Galperin: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin.%20Playing%20pool%20with%20pi.pdf Evidently, Numberphile also described this problem (I had not known): https://youtu.be/abv4Fz7oNr0 You'll notice that video has an added factor of 16 throughout, which is not here. That's because they're only counting the collisions between blocks (well, balls in their case), and they're only counting to the point where the big block starts moving the other way. Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations Bengali: Prayas Sanyal Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld Italian: @Deye27, @hi-anji ------------------ These animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy open source python library: https://github.com/3b1b/manim If you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it's not the most well-documented tool, and it has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind. Music by Vincent Rubinett

Published 2019-01-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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