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#1 2012-09-26 04:01:35

Nestor
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Solve this moving one stick

||| = ||| + |||

move just one stick, the equation is wrong. kiss

#2 2012-09-26 04:11:24

Bob
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

hi Nestor,

Welcome to the forum!

Sorry my answer is Roman not Greek.  smile

Bob


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#3 2012-09-26 04:20:31

Nestor
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

Wrong,

they are stick's not "I" in roman.

Tip: the equation is wrong. smile

you can only move them. You can not transform them.

#4 2012-09-26 04:48:54

anonimnystefy
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

Hi Nestor


There is the obvious of taking a stick from the left side and putting it on the
sign so that it becomes
.


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#5 2012-09-26 05:18:55

Nestor
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

you cant transform the stick into anything.

You have to finish with nine stick's.

#6 2012-09-26 07:12:55

anonimnystefy
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

And how is the equality sign represented then?

And what is wrong with Bob's solution?


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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#7 2012-09-27 04:06:32

Mitnick
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

| x ||| = | - | + |||

#8 2012-09-27 09:20:37

noemi
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Re: Solve this moving one stick

||| = ||| = |||

Last edited by noemi (2012-09-27 09:20:51)

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