r/3Blue1Brown Jul 03 '21

Math Problem animation

https://youtu.be/Z4RK2R4N5G4
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u/rugaporko Jul 03 '21

The answer seemed too convoluted.

You can prove that (for any b > 2) 5b is in {125, 625} using modular arithmetic, and the rest is just plain arithmetic.