This pattern breaks, but for a good reason | Moser's circle problem
July 2, 2023
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as posted by the channelAn apparent pattern that breaks, and the reason behind it.
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This is a remake of one of the earliest videos on the channel. It's such a wonderful problem, and the audio/pacing in earlier videos was really suboptimal, so I wanted to freshen it up a little here.
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Correction at 8:56 - The number of the regions should of course be (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), instead of (0,1,2,3,5)
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Arabic: mouhsiiin
French: Jonhfing
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: Fabó Bence
Russian: fedor
Spanish: Paweł Cesar Sanjuan Szklarz
Thai: @korakot
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