Archive for May, 2009
Monday, May 25th, 2009
The solution to MMM #32 is up at Blinkdagger. Here we go with #33.
What's the prime factorization of the smallest whole number that is divisible by all integers from 1 up to and including 50?
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
The Question
Unfortunately our friends Alice and Bob have unknowingly traded their liberty away and are being fenced inside a rectangular pieces of land on the planet Earth, which is assumed to be a perfect sphere of radius 3950 miles.
Alice and Bob are granted one last choice: To decide which ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
This was a very popular contest. 57 of you sent in your solutions and almost every answer was correct.
Buddha Buck was selected by random.org as the winner of this contest. Here is Buddha's solution:
Problem: Simplify (1/i)^(1/i) - i^i (where i is sqrt(-1))
Solution:
i*i = -1, -i*i = 1, so ...
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