Message: 10
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:11:15 -0800
From: Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
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Charles-
Thursday, November 24, 2005, 7:05:31 AM, you wrote:
But it doesn't seem to be a necessary condition. The factors of 36 --
by the double definition you have to use in order to make sense of
the statement of the problem -- are either
1 36 2 2 3 3
or
1 36 2 3
-- which counted one way amount to 6 and the other, 4, neither of
which is conspicuously odd. It looks to me as though old Tom is
wrong. Gee, does that ever happen?
???
I count the factors of 36 as being:
1 2 3 4 9 18 36
and that seems odd to me...
--
-Mark Wieder
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Well, Mark, it is odd, but so is 1,2,3,4,6,9,12,18,36.
Moral: Better to make two slips than one, particularly when the
answer is binary.
It is easy to miss factors. I make a little educational stack some
time ago to automate the process:
In the message box:
go stack url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/PrimeNumbers.rev";
Jim
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