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bob012345 replied to the thread Undergrad Three Circle Problem.You don’t need numbers but of course you can calculate things if you want.
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Three identical circles intersect in such a way that each intersects the centers of the other two as in the figure. The problem is to...
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bob012345 replied to the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!).I believe that generally speaking, they would be the same. Especially when the author is a world renowned puzzlist.
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bob012345 replied to the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!).Well I found several solutions I thought were clever and valid reasonable early but what took a while was that nagging feeling they...
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That is not hard, just make a pyramid
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bob012345 reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!) with
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How long did you spend on this puzzle?? :eek: -
bob012345 replied to the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!).I understand but I think part of the game is to figure that out. It took me a few hours to get to the second assumption. It took only a...
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bob012345 replied to the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!).@DaveC426913 , while you are mathematically correct and from a purely mathematical point of view, you obeyed the rules, your solution...
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bob012345 replied to the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!).But isn’t there usually a class of trivial solutions which can be discounted? Maybe because they seem to violate the spirit of the puzzle.
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bob012345 reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!) with Like.
I interpreted it to mean three triangles, no more, no less. (Ruling out solutions that produce four triangles.) I might even extend it...
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bob012345 reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!) with Like.
I agree with this. The era and context provided additional ... context, of which we are bereft. As I mentioned, these puzzle now show...
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bob012345 replied to the thread Geometric Game: Fun With Matches (Safe!).I believe so, yes. How is that leaky though?
