Hi, A number theorist was invited to a poker game. He was not that good at poker and remembered just a little from his highschool days. Then at the end of the...
... questions was ... various ... for me, ... Ta hell with that, my question is this: what's the lowest unknown prime? ... Hey everyone, by the way!...
... Big Hint: It has to do with prime numbers. Page down for the answer. He had say, 3,5,J,K,9. Since 3,5 is a twin prime pair and J,K is a twin prime pair, he...
... If x is the largest known prime, there is a finite number of primes < x. Now many of these are known and many are not. So the lowest unknown prime is out ...
... I thought it was as simple as another person also having 2 pairs - the same two pairs - but they had a single Ace, while our man had a single King ??? Then...
... Nevada ... venue. I think every town of more than 3000 people has a Hotel with Poker Machines, though only the major capitals have Casinos. In fact i...
... They would of course be the known knowns ... prime? This would of course be the smallest know unknown. But then to many people [Rumsfeld included] it is...
... Interesting. The Lottery is about the only legal game here in Chicago. Actually, the big lottery is not gambling since gambling is a game of chance and...
There are ten coins with the numbers 1 through 10 labeled on one side and 0 on the other. They are all flipped randomly. What sum of all the numbers facing up...
... side ... its ... That's what I got. It's not too difficult to deduce that 27 and 28 are the most likely. They are in the middle of the distibution. I don't...
... <cooperpuzzles@...> wrote: Not sure what went wrong when I got 40!!!! - can certainly replicate the 27, 28 double using the same technique I used when...
... A generatingfunctionological approach is to let P_i = 1 + x^i for i = 1, 2, ..., 10 and then compute the product P_1 P_2 ... P_10. The coefficient of x^n...
... Not a short cut, but it's possible to count by hand using polynomials. In the product (1+x)(1+x^2)...(1+x^10), the coefficient of x^k is the number of ways...
A while ago I was playing with converting musical tones to degress on a circle In the below, I constructed a spreadsheet with the simple formula; (Note, all Im...
In a message dated 5/13/2007 4:42:35 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Is there any relation at all between a square and a circle? stevo </HTML> [Non-text...
... <cooperpuzzles@> ... one ... is ... adh_math ... especially ... a ... I didn't find page 4. Maybe you could send me a direct link. I do have a recursive...
The direct link is: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL5/Tomescu/tomescu4.pdf The recurrence relation on page 4 that I mentioned is the same as the one...
... the ... Thanks for this. I've tried a couple of times to read the paper. It will take a bit of study before I understand it all. I finally realized that...
Here's an easy one. There is a unique solution to this puzzle: "There are a prime number of ways that I can make change for n cents using coins of 1, 2, 5, 10 ...
One way of counting the number of ways of making change is first to define: F(k) = floor(k/2)+1 which for k=0,1,2,3,..., is 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,... and which is...
... and ... of ... = ... I agree. I meant finding a solution is easy. I don't know why this is the only solution. Of course, this is Sloane sequence A000008. I...
Gentlemen: I found this problem in a math site (Certamen el Numero de Oro 1998) and I have been unable to find its solution. Would some one of you, members of...
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