Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Featuring James Grime... Check out Jane Street's "Puzzle Page" for great brain teasers janestreet.com/puzzles/archive (episode sponsor)
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This video features Dr James Grime: singingbanana.com
His YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/singingbanana

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Some papers about the Goat Problem...
Return of the Grazing Goat in n Dimensions: jstor.org/stable/2686558
A Closed-Form Solution to the Geometric Goat Problem: doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09966-0
The Grazing Goat in n Dimensions: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00494925.1984.11972761

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