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Here I have another problem, saying "we have]]> Jun 16, 2009 10:34:16 PM Jun 16, 2009 10:34:16 PM barco 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085030&tstart=0#1085030
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Helena Verrill wrote:
> By the way, you said that an information count would make you
>]]> Feb 1, 1999 8:41:31 AM Feb 1, 1999 8:41:31 AM conway@math.Princeton.EDU 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085029&tstart=0#1085029 >
> Here's the solution to the n-weighing version of this problem]]> Feb 1, 1999 5:09:42 AM Feb 1, 1999 5:09:42 AM Helena.Verrill@home.ivm.de 2 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085028&tstart=0#1085028 Here's the solution to the n-weighing version of this problem that
I said I'd recently read. It was found by Dyson and Lyness in]]> Jan 28, 1999 7:19:30 PM Jan 28, 1999 7:19:30 PM conway@math.Princeton.EDU 3 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085031&tstart=0#1085031 I was intending to give the most-memorable solution I know to
the 12 coins problem. It was published in a poem in "Eureka",
the]]> Jan 27, 1999 9:46:01 PM Jan 27, 1999 9:46:01 PM conway@math.Princeton.EDU 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085027&tstart=0#1085027
I read your problem and have solved it straight away!
The key to the problem is being able to reduce the original number]]> Jan 27, 1999 7:15:10 PM Jan 27, 1999 7:15:10 PM kilroymouse@hotmail.com 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085026&tstart=0#1085026
12 coins problem - Frans Faase
Jan 27, 1999 4:46:05 PM Jan 27, 1999 4:46:05 PM sarah@forum.swarthmore.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1085025&tstart=0#1085025
if you have 12 coins, one of which is either
heavier or lighter than the others, the]]> Jan 27, 1999 3:02:20 PM Jan 27, 1999 3:02:20 PM Helena.Verrill@home.ivm.de 7