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#1 2006-05-24 09:35:40

bryan
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Registered: 2006-05-24
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tough one

you have to get heat water and eletric to each house but no lines can cross



heat                      water                    eletric







house 1                        house2                          house3




you can use a infinte amount of paper

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#2 2006-05-25 04:11:42

mathsyperson
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Registered: 2005-06-22
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Re: tough one

Heehee, I do decision maths so I can prove that that's impossible. =P


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#3 2007-03-12 14:56:49

JaneFairfax
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Registered: 2007-02-23
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Re: tough one

Okay, I’ve been looking at some of these very old threads here … roll

And I’ve seen this puzzle before. Here is the solution:
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentysix.htm

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#4 2007-03-12 16:49:37

Ricky
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Registered: 2005-12-04
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Re: tough one

I think that is a cheap way out.  Represent each house as a vertex.  Now try it.


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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#5 2007-03-12 16:57:02

JaneFairfax
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Registered: 2007-02-23
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Re: tough one

Then Euler’s formula comes into play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_gra … 7s_formula

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