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bob012345 replied to the thread B Six Pencil Puzzle.I’m not convinced they all touch. -
bob012345 replied to the thread B Six Pencil Puzzle.The original puzzle was for round cigarettes. I changed it to pencils but I realize some pencils are hexagons. One edge could be higher...
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bob012345 replied to the thread B Six Pencil Puzzle.Glueing a gap in my mind is not a solution since these are mathematical pencils.
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I think you're right. The slope prevents certain pencils from being touched.
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No, I did not. Sorry for the spoiler bar. By the way, there is another solution which can also be found by using Google. In my...
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bob012345 replied to the thread B Six Pencil Puzzle.There are other ways to solve this. Can anyone find different solutions for six pencils? Also, can it be done with seven?
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bob012345 replied to the thread B Six Pencil Puzzle.You can edit your original answer so that anyone can see the solution if they click on the “spoiler” button. Below I misspelled it so...
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bob012345 replied to the thread B Six Pencil Puzzle.Did you figure this yourself before searching for the answer online? Also, please use spoiler bars so as not to give away the answer...
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Unsharpened pencils (like cigarettes), I presume.
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Is it possible to arrange six pencils such that each one touches the other five? If so, how? This is an adaption of a Martin Gardner...
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bob012345 replied to the thread Quantum mechanics book recommendations.I have seen Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman recommended as it is less math oriented.
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bob012345 replied to the thread Photon-Foil FTL Drive theory.I find it more interesting to start with real concepts and extrapolate a bit to get FTL such as finding an efficient way to create the...
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While Grok4 significantly beat all other GPT models on the ARC-AGI2 benchmark (See post #1) it scored only 16.2% about double Anthropic...
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Some of the things he's doing are better left undone.
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bob012345 replied to the thread On Progress Toward AGI.Well, at least Musk is doing things. It seems to me most people (including myself) just watch while they critique and criticize.
