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Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter.
Sam divided up the candies into equal shares, one share for each of them. 'There you are,' he said, taking his quota, 'and you can't say I'm not fair.' But Hilda
...ut then I'm stuck. It almost seems that I have to save all the little pieces for last, but then I have the problem of trying to guarantee that the thing will be solvable.
I tried a google search but...
Here is a problem by J.A.H Hunter on expressions for successive integers.
It's the expressions game again today. You have just a '1', a '4', and a '9', and any regular arithmetical signs you may kno
Hi ,
I was working on a problem ( as a hobby ) .
It wanted the maximum number of pieces a cake could be sliced into with ' n ' slices .
The formula is Max( P) = n(n+1)/2 + 1
where ' P ' is the
I was wondering if there is a name for this problem/puzzle or if someone has done much work on it:
Make a rectangular grid of squares, 3 rows high by 2 columns wide. Start in the upper left corner a
Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter.
'What a way to spend Christmas Day,' John muttered, screwing up his eyes against the blazing sun, 'but I guess there's some reason for it.' He figured he's trudge
... by changing one letter at a time to form a new word as follows
CAT COT COG DOG
Many years ago I saw a problem to change COALDUST to DIAMONDS in a similar way but with the variant that each when a...
Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter.
'That's a fine clock,' Doug remarked, admiring the very modern timepiece on the buffet. 'Electric. It's new,' Steve told him, 'and keeps perfect time.' He raised
...ping to find a clever pigeonhole principle type proof. I haven't found one, though, and a lot of very good problem solvers haven't found one either, yet.
Does a short proof exist for this problem?...
Hi, I'm playing a game of online Survivor and if I don't get this
Here is a fairly easy problem: make these letter-pairs KS, EA, BR, BL, CH into two words sharing a commom middle pair
ans: BReaKS & BLeaCH
However you are now given 5 martian letter pairs, a marti
...being big on geography, had to google to get P. Realised your wednesday clue from THURS key, but still had problems with a key starting WEDNS. Slapped some consecutive letters together further in the ...
Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter.
'I've just remembered a teaser from when I was a kid,' said Fred. 'A long time ago!' commented his partner. 'Let's have it then.' 'Well, this man handed a jewelle
... multiplication, division or subtraction needed or wanted!!!
Since my adding is pretty lousy, I put this problem in Excel, and let Excel do the adding for me....
My Excel formulas were *VERY* simp...
Hello,
I vaguely remember working a puzzle that was authored by Newton. It was a problem regarding cows grazing in a field and the grass grows at a certain rate.
Does anyone have it?
Thanks, Gar
Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter on expressions for successive integers.
You have four 'sixes,' but no other figures at all. Using those four 'sixes', all four of them each time, and also any regu
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How many non-mutually-attacking queens can be placed on:
1) cylindrical board (f.e. 8x8) 2) torus board (f.e. 8x8) 3) 'Klein' board (like this one http://humber.northnet.org/weeks/TorusGames/h
Hi all,
As everybody knows, there is a standard algorithm to solve the magic square problem for a grid of size n*n, where n is an odd number. What about solutions for even n?
What is the best solu
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This greenness question is interestingly, a question about the statement of weak duality of nonlinear programming. For the rectangular array: Let us index the rows as x (row_k is x_k) belong
...m http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20010409/tc/why_mathematicians_now_c...
You might want to work on the problem first and then go to the web site to read the rest. Considering how popular the artic...
...ously that doesn't apply here) minus the answer :)
MYSTERY SEQUENCE
I'm sure you all know how sequence problems work. Just in case you don't, below are a series of numbers, the final term of which...
This problem might be more appropriate for a computer algorithms newsgroup, but since this newsgroup has so many bright members, I thought I'd get their suggestions first.
I am working on a computer
I bought a roll of brown packing tape from the $2 shop but the label which showed how many metres were in the roll was missing. The cardboard former around which the tape is wound has an outer diamete
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Does anyone know how old is 8 queens puzzle? I found only this information:
The n-queens problem is an old one that has been around for more than a century. Originally known as the 8-Queens pr
...t's a short easy step to prove that any integer n can be expressed as the sum of 5 integers cubed.
(This problem was part of a national undergraduate math contest when I was an undergraduate.)
Ins...
This problem was posted a while ago:
It is interesting to find a general solution to this problem for any number of balls and any number of levels. We have seen that with 2 balls and 100 levels 14 d
... I who is to go to Pau to do it? R=144/25=5.76
I suppose some recursion as in the ' had had 'had had ' ' problem might make R arbitrarily big?...
...ned a few things about how to work them. I also recently picked up an issue of Dell Math Puzzles and Logic Problems. In addition to the Logic Problems the most numerous puzzles seem to be Cross Sums, ...
A friend of mine today asked me a question of which he couldn't remember the answer, to which I replied that I'd seen the answer but couldn't for the life of me remember the answer either. So I throw
A man is thumbing through some books at a library and moments later he's arrested. Explain.
This is one of the puzzles currently being solved on the lateral puzzles forum at:
www.lateralpuzzles.co
... 90 degree turns necessary to make one state coincide with the other. i am unaware of the solution to this problem but i think it is between 20-25. some group theory might...
Hello, All!
Suppose deep in the Outer Space there is a brood (flight? swarm? horde?) of space ships, each equipped with laser gun, controlled by robots and suspecting each other. Suddenly the new st
One thing that's bothered me about the archive solution is that it asks about the general case of any number n coins, but then it only gives a solution for certain 'nice' n's; particularly:
n = (3^w
...ber Theeory and Its History'. Great read and he does a fantastic job upto and including linear Diophantine problems and the Pythagorean numbers, but then kinds of whooshes through the nonlinear proble...
You, the Great Sheik Ma Pe Kir, are in the desert at your base camp. You want to reach the next base camp which is 1000 miles away. You have 3000 litres of water and wish to transport as much as possi
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