“As Numberland’s best detective, you thought you’d seen it all. But the desiccated corpses of prominent natural numbers have been showing up all over the city. A lockdown is ordered from sundown to sunrise, and it’s still not enough to stop what can only be described as a vampiric feeding frenzy.”
Why are the citizens of Numberland being attacked? What are slime numbers? Why are some digits untouched? And can you catch the vampire by figuring out which numbers are immune?
Solve this two-part math mystery, a TED-Ed feeding frenzy riddle by math educator Henri Picciotto. The animated challenge was directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio.
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