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Can you solve the jail break riddle?

Daniel Finkel · TED

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About

Your timing made you and your partner infamous bank robbers. Now, you need to use that timing to break out of jail. Your partner is about to flash you a signal, and exactly 45 seconds later the electric fence circuit will short out. Then you notice that your watch is broken, and all you have are two 1-minute fuses in your pocket. Can you time your escape and get free? Dan Finkel shows how. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Daniel Finkel
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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