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Revisiting Moser's circle problem

Grant Sanderson
Jul 2, 2023
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One of the earliest videos on this channel was about Moser's circle problem, a famous puzzle where the answers seem to follow a certain pattern, but one which turns out to be misleading.

I thought it might be nice to re-record the video, since the sound quality and pacing of early videos were really not great, and the problem has so many nice lessons within it. Also, posting the "How they fool ya" song, and a few shorts relevant to this sort of popped it back up in relevance.

As I dove in, I ended up changing quite a bit, adding meaningful new sections and animations. It really is a fun puzzle, enjoy!

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Jul 2

I did a similar write up to this on my Substack as well. You can also write it in polynomial form as a quartic function which differs quite a bit from the original powers of 2 pattern!

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