The Hydra Game - Numberphile

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POST-PUBLICATION NOTE: Have seen a number of people saying the 4 case should be 1,114,111 rather than 983,038 - I'm not qualified to comment but you can read some discussion and coding here: https://redd.it/1c6z1t4

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