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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!cascade.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
  2. From: kvdoel@cs.ubc.ca (Kees van den Doel)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
  4. Subject: Re: A nice New Year puzzle.
  5. Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:26:49 -0800
  6. Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  7. Lines: 12
  8. Message-ID: <1i3cj9INNocf@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
  9. References: <1993Jan1.002031.5763@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1i081uINN6k5@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan1.053639.27111@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan1.053639.27111@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
  13. hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
  14.  
  15. >[]
  16. >Why not pick any point on the sqrt(3) circle and draw a radius 1 circle
  17. >around it?
  18.  
  19. Because finding a closest point to any given point that can't be
  20. coloured under the constraints of the puzzle turns me on...:-)
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  22.  
  23. Kees
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