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Forum Post Making the Round(ing) Trip
Oh <slaps head>! It's obvious now you point it out. The roundoff error in B's can't be more than half a B, which is less than half an A, and we started (by assumption) with an int...
Forum Post Rooms without a view.
...s exactly what I was hoping for (improving upon my initial guesses with solutions that are not immediately obvious...
Forum Post Quick C Programming Quiz
... x when it decides to process array[x], so you might get some sort of access violation. And making the obvious correction, you get the same range of responses....
Forum Post Math Puzzle
...my second solution was the whole plane. I guess it's never safe to assume what is going to appear obvious to different people....
Forum Post Unusual words for web searching
Without using a search engine, a couple of these are bloody obvious: left out a few (-1)'s here; the units of the Hubble constant. Yttrium barium copper oxide, probably the most famous of...
Forum Post Chinese Children Problem
...actly what the 9% exception is intnded to accomplish. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems 'obvious' to me that if the goal is a stable population then everyone should be allowed t...
Forum Post long language equation
...Eye-catching White Egrets Or Washable True Blue Underclothing As England's Angry Admiralty Grins. Obvious, really, once you know....
Forum Post My puzzles are all too easy
... spoiler spoiler spoiler Let the daughter's age be X. Thus, 2 * X = X * X. The obvious solution is X = 2, but X = 0 also works. (Happy birthday...
Forum Post Many ways to work?
I thought it too obvious to mention that the wumpus is at intersection (x,y). The single-wumpus variation is really no harder than the original no-wumpus puzzle, but things get interesting (read: ...
Forum Post magic square with even number of columns --
...h case and all the algorithms run in time O(n^2) which is the asymptotically optimal complexity (n^2 is an obvious lower bound since there are n^2 entries to be printed out). The two C programs ar...
Forum Post Divisor Nim
...e has to bet better than being stuck with what's left at the end. For question 5, it seems pretty obvious that the second player can with with, say, 1,2,3 being the choices. Take 1 if it'...
Forum Post Shuffle Words 2.
...uce an attraction or even B. Shuffle a Street Preacher with aquisition to get a field (There are 3 obvious(ish) comments to make about the latter, but to make them would give it away. For extr...
Forum Post A weird telephone alphabet
...scribers than to Americans, especially where dropped haspirants hare concerned. ObPuzzle: pick the non-obvious ones and explain them....
Forum Post NUM4 results (corrected)
...metimes just the interesting ones). This particular contest started a mild argument. She said it was 'obvious' that the best strategy was to answer the lowest number on every question. I, ha...
Forum Post math game for ten-year-old
...as the starting number, may be seen even after a few trials. For larger numbers, it's not immediately obvious, but could be obtained with pretty straightforward arguments. Later you can allow...
Forum Post right triangle problem
...s from a slightly different (and perhaps more interesting) way. Your answers don't seem to show up an obvious relation which came to me while working out my answers. AH_(2n-1)= 5*(4/5)^(n+1) ...
Forum Post Blind Draw 2
...rence. Well, assuming you're playing with some kind of digital currency, I think it's pretty obvious the optimal strategy is not to play. I think if you're playing for glory mos...
Forum Post Rather difficult question on MCAS test
...had another think. The intended answer clearly is to find the car which maximises 1/(1/c + 3/h), using the obvious notation, and that is (clearly, after a little work I find easier with a calculator) ...
Forum Post Simple puzzle?
...ion Process. 1. pick yourself a keyword (6 letters or more probably best, for reasons that will become obvious) 2. eg. 'decipher' (remove repeats, don't understand but lanaki says t...
Forum Post Who put the variation in variance?
...mples. The Standard Deviation is the square root of the variance. As and engineer, I could see the obvious, natural meaning and relevance of this in that the SD was, in effect, the Root Mean S...
Forum Post Integers
...ifferent occupation rates: 20%: 0.007 30%: 0.065 40%: 0.159 50%: 0.16 60%: 0.07 70%: 0.01 It seems obvious that this sample size is to small ...
Forum Post 4 bugs problem
... the journey, the slope of path 1 and path 2 are perpendicular as required by the problem. It is quite obvious that all the paths are exactly...
Forum Post Three Strikes and Youre Out
The first thing to note is that on each pass through the numbers, the parity switches. Thus, on any even-numbered time through the count, you will count odd numbers when stepping on an even number, an...
Forum Post Lateral Thinking Puzzles
spoilers contained throughout Of course 'Every day' is required, and so there must be some way that no helper ever helps out by pressing 10 for him. So it must be a faulty '10&#...
 

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