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- From: dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Darcy Boese)
- Subject: Re: 21-link chain puzzle (SPOILER)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.133519.28046@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:35:19 GMT
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- sjbuckle@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- : Darcy Boese (dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA) wrote:
- : >The other solution is this:
- : >
- : >1 1 3 5 11
- : >
- : >(yours was 1 1 3 6 10)
- :
- : Surely there's also: 1 2 4 6 8.
- : Use 1,2,4,8 to make all numbers up to 15.
- : Then repeat how you made up 10-15 and throw in the 6 as well, to get 16-21.
-
- Actually yours is only the solution for part of the puzzle. For the rest of
- the solution, you would need to make fewer breaks in the chain to create
- the pieces.
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