TED-Ed: This one weird trick will get you infinite gold | Dan Finkel

A king demands his treasury's gold be tripled, and a magical man helps by using a special bag. The man later returns to claim a promised child, but offers a chance to guess his name. The bag's magic is explained as a function, and a riddle involving the number of coins is solved using logical reasoning.

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