This pattern breaks, but for a good reason | Moser's circle problem

An apparent pattern that breaks, and the reason behind it.
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For the long-time viewers among you, if this sounds familiar, it's because it's a remake of one of the earliest videos on the channel. It's such a wonderful problem, and the audio/pacing in earlier videos was really suboptimal, so I wanted to freshen it up a little here.

Timestamps
0:00 - The pattern
2:20 - Counting chords
4:03 - Counting intersection points
6:20 - Euler's characteristic formula
11:30 - Connection with Pascal's triangle
15:10 - Reflections

Correction at 8:56 - The number of the regions should of course be (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), instead of (0,1,2,3,5)

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
Arabic: mouhsiiin
French: Jonhfing
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: Fabó Bence
Russian: fedor
Spanish: Paweł Cesar Sanjuan Szklarz
Thai: @korakot

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These animations are largely made using a custom python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here:
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https://github.com/3b1b/manim
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

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Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
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