Recent content by holyGrill

looks awesome gsal, i will find out the answer soon and let you know! many many thanks, this defo makes sense to me ...

hey gsal yes it would be 10! ( = 3,628,800 ) combinations, only, the order of bikes at any shop doesn't matter (in my prev post, which I must have sneaked in just before yours!) so this reduces it down again ... I'm not exactly sure how to tackle this one though ?!

Hi yes the numbers bikes and shops are distinguishable sorry forgot to mention that. So there are quite a few combinations. The order of bikes at a particular shop doesn't matter though: So : a1={b1, b2} a2={b3 - b6}, a3={b7 - b10} is equavalent to ( only order of b1 and b2 switched)...

Hello, I have a small problem/puzzle to solve which goes as follows: (I have already calculated it, however I am not sure I followed the right reasoning as mathematics is not my strong point and after building a Java app to brute force it, it crashed on out-of-memory error)...