Picture-hanging puzzles
We show how to hang a picture by wrapping rope around n nails, making a polynomial number of twists, such that the picture falls whenever any k out of the n nails get removed, and the picture remains hanging when fewer than k nails get removed. This construction makes for some fun mathematical magic...
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Γλώσσα: | en_US |
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Springer-Verlag
2012
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72400 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-5703 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-3690 |