pile = stack of coins piled on top of each otherQuote:
Originally posted by dlingeverything@29 June 2003 - 20:31
can u rephrase?
how can u have 3 piles in 8 rows?
row = coins just laid out along a surface, in 2-d with respect to surface
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pile = stack of coins piled on top of each otherQuote:
Originally posted by dlingeverything@29 June 2003 - 20:31
can u rephrase?
how can u have 3 piles in 8 rows?
row = coins just laid out along a surface, in 2-d with respect to surface
I don't understand the question either noob...
Wouldn't "3 piles of pennies in 8 rows" look more-or-less like this from above?
OOO
OOO
OOO
OOO
OOO
OOO
OOO
OOO
How is that "a square with nothing in the middle"?
Good to hear from you tite-wad - Haven't heard from you in a while :D
Now that I'm looking at the problem, I'm puzzled myself - It looks like the coins are breaking several laws of physics :huh:
piles of 3 or 3 piles?
If you looked at it 2d u wud only see this than:
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
A row goes across: ------------------------
Column goes down:
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sorry, i just read it back and it doesn't make a lot of sense unless you know the answer or have seen the working.
i'll explain it more clearly.
you have to make a set of piles (stacks) and rows (lines) of coins such that the total number of coins in each row is 9
for example, if you have coins like this:
3 4 2
where 3 means a pile of 3 coins, 4 means a pile of 4 coins and so on
does this explain it enough?
Again, the wording is a little confusing...Quote:
Originally posted by 2nd gen noob@29 June 2003 - 11:51
A guy has to a cross a river filled with man eating animals, by climbing a bridge to get to a princess with whom he wants to stay for the rest of his life. but on the bridge is a guard who will chase him back as soon as he is spotted. the guard sleeps for 5mins and watches for 10mins and the guy can cross the bridge in 7 mins. How can he ever get to the princess at the top of the bridge without being spotted.
You say, "by climbing a bridge"
I've never encountered a bridge that required climbing - only crossing.
But based on the premise that he must cross "without being spotted" and not merely cross without being caught by the guard, I guess he would need to begin at the moment the guard falls asleep - move to the underneath side just before the guard awakens and then hang there for 10 minutes - and resume crossing once the guard falls asleep again.
Or he could possibly make the entire trek on the underneath side (which would require great upper-body strength).
Both of those answers would be providing of course that the "man eating animals" can't reach the underside of the bridge. ;)
both these are listed as possible answers :)Quote:
Originally posted by tite-wad@29 June 2003 - 21:25
I guess he would need to begin at the moment the guard falls asleep - move to the underneath side just before the guard awakens and then hang there for 10 minutes - and resume crossing once the guard falls asleep again.
Or he could possibly make the entire trek on the underneath side (which would require great upper-body strength).
i'm sorry for the wording, but i "borrowed" these from an internet page and didn't want to change any words unless there was a dispute...
Ok i understand better but,Quote:
Originally posted by 2nd gen noob@29 June 2003 - 14:23
sorry, i just read it back and it doesn't make a lot of sense unless you know the answer or have seen the working.
i'll explain it more clearly.
you have to make a set of piles (stacks) and rows (lines) of coins such that the total number of coins in each row is 9
for example, if you have coins like this:
3 4 2
where 3 means a pile of 3 coins, 4 means a pile of 4 coins and so on
does this explain it enough?
i still dont understand how the first time it comes to a square
and are we supposed to make the square one
and the one with 28? or just the latter
:lol:
this riddle is causing far too much confusion.
it's totally my fault, i never foresaw it being a problem.
i'm just gonna paste in the answer in 5 minutes unless anyone doesn't want it...
:P This kinda works! :P Look closely... :geek:
It sorta looks like the word NINE
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Edit: typo