Tag: video
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Can You Turn This Pattern into a Knight’s Tour?
Did you notice that, in the video for More Than Nine Million Billion Ways, the order in which the attempts at random knights tours appear makes a knight’s tour itself? This video explains where it comes from. (Spoiler: it isn’t randomly generated!)
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More Than Nine Million Billion Ways
If you make random knight’s moves around a chessboard, how likely is it that you’ll find a path that visits every square without visiting any of them more than once? This video discusses some of the maths around that idea, including a song about one knight’s attempt to do it.