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Article #16966Re: Ancient Information Theory (all things are numbers) Pythagoras
From: Virgil
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:32
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:32
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In article <1144013468.642631.281320@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>, "*Anarcissie*" <anarcissie@yahoo.com> wrote: > jimcolli@pacbell.net wrote: > > ... > > 1. You have two cubes. You want to paint a single digit from 0 to 9 > > on each of the six faces of each cube so that the two together > > display any day of the month, 1 to 31. (For the first nine days > > of the months, the display reads, "01", "02", etc.) > > How do you do it? Can't. Unless 6 and 9 are the same face merely inverted. You have 12 faces. You need all 10 digits at least once without the 6,9 inversion trick. You need an extra 1 for 11 and an extra 2 for 22, and a zero on each die to get all the one digit days, so you need at least 13 faces or one face serving two numbers.
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