3blue1brown
3blue1brown
@3blue1brown·8.4M subscribers·238 videos

Binary, Hanoi and Sierpinski, part 1

Posted

November 25, 2016

Views

761,519

Likes

18,677

Comments

706

Engagement

2.55%

Search the Record

Indexed

Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.

Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.

Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line

YouTube Description

as posted by the channel

Binary counting can solve the towers of Hanoi puzzle, and if this isn't surprising enough, it can lead to a method for finding a curve that fills Sierpinski's triangle (which I get to in part 2).

Thanks to Desmos for their help in supporting this video. They're hiring, and anyone interested should check out

Thanks to all Patreon supporters as well, you can support and get early access to future "Essence of" series here

I also want to give a special shoutout to the following patrons: CrypticSwarm, Ali Yahya, Dave Nicponski, Juan Batiz-Benet, Yu Jun, Othman Alikhan, Markus Persson, Joseph John Cox, Luc Ritchie, Einar Wikheim Johansen, Rish Kundalia, Achille Brighton, Kirk Werklund, Ripta Pasay, Felipe Diniz, Chris, Curtis Mitchell, Ari Royce, Bright , Myles Buckley, Robert P Zuckett, Andy Petsch, Otavio good, Karthik T, Steve Muench, Viesulas Sliupas, Steffen Persch, Brendan Shah, Andrew Mcnab, Matt Parlmer, Naoki Orai, Dan Davison, Jose Oscar Mur-Miranda, Aidan Boneham, Brent Kennedy, Henry Reich, Sean Bibby, Paul Constantine, Justin Clark, Mohannad Elhamod, Denis, Ben Granger, Jeffrey Herman, Jacob Young.

Sentinel Indexing in Progress

Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.

All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.