Can you solve the computer virus riddle? - James Tanton
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Your antivirus squad is up against a code that’s hijacked your mainframe. What you’ve learned from other infected systems, right before they went dark, is that it likes to toy with antivirus agents in a very peculiar way— and you’re the agent that’s been selected to go up against the malware. Can you figure out which disk that runs your mainframe has been corrupted? James Tanton shows how.
Is the sum of 500 consecutive counting numbers even or odd? How do you know? (Or does it depend on which 500 numbers are presented?)
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Meet The Creators
- Educator James Tanton
- Director Igor Coric, Artrake Studio
- Music Cem Misirlioglu
- Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Narrator Addison Anderson
