The Goat Problem - Numberphile

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Some papers about the Goat Problem...
Return of the Grazing Goat in n Dimensions: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2686558
A Closed-Form Solution to the Geometric Goat Problem: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09...
The Grazing Goat in n Dimensions: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

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