Simon having fun solving math puzzles on Twitter.

While in Southern France, Simon really enjoyed solving this puzzle (he originally saw in a Brilliant.org vid). He was so happy with his solution he kept drawing it out on paper and in digital apps, and later shared the puzzle on Twitter. This sparked quite a few reactions from fellow math lovers, encouraged Brilliant to tweet new puzzles and now Brilliant follows Simon on Twitter, how cool is that!

@gabjara @7ittledreams @areyouc1rrus @AlexBBrown @leila_hadzic @spacexonaut Ok, It's time to post the answer now: PI/8!!! My mind was just blown when I found this solution a few days ago! I didn't think that this would be one of those cases where pi just shows up out of nowhere. pic.twitter.com/fuTz6uXWe5
— Simon Tiger Houben (@simontigerh) August 16, 2019

Even Weirder: This reminds me of a 3rd, HARD one: Pick random numbers [0, 1) until the sum exceeds 1. What's the expected number of random numbers you'll pick? Hint: VERY HARD. This was on a Putnam Exam. So, I'll just tell the answer: e!
— Simon Tiger Houben (@simontigerh) August 18, 2019

That's a great problem. It falls out directly using ideas from geometric probability, just like the other problems.https://t.co/cECYcysYLI
— Brilliant.org (@brilliantorg) August 19, 2019

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