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James Grime’s house-building problem

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Aperiodipal James Grime has put a new video on his YouTube channel. He’s got a problem to do with building houses:

But James posts fantastic videos about maths puzzles all the time; what’s so notable about this one?

I was involved, that’s what! The puzzle can be done on pen and paper but it involves a lot of drawing and calculating, so James asked if anyone could make a computery version. I spent my day off work last week making just such a thing: the computerised Building Houses Problem.

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