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Article #2465Re: 21-link chain puzzle (SPOILER)
From: Darcy Boese
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:35
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:35
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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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Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!spartan.ac.BrockU.CA!dboese 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 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <727631103.12214@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:35:19 GMT Lines: 16