3blue1brown
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The impossible chessboard puzzle
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July 5, 2020
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July 5, 2020
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64,307
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An information puzzle with an interesting twist
Solution on Standup Maths
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Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
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Thanks to everyone who endured me probing them with this puzzle and provided helpful discussion, especially Cam Christensen, Matt Parker, and Mike Sklar. Mike, by the way, deserves credit for coming up with the particularly clean way to see that it's impossible when n is not a power of 2.
These animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy opensource python library
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 Rubinetti.
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