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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2007-07-09 10:44 am
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xkcd #287

Two solutions, right?

(Yes, I brute-forced it.)

[identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm too impatient to brute-force it, and insufficiently brilliant to come up with a general solution, so: do keep in mind that the appetisers need not be unique.

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't find any solutions with unique appetizers, actually.

To tell the truth, though, the parity trick was the most helpful of the ones I tried to employ.

[identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
There's 64 possible combinations of unique appetisers, and none of them give 15.05. 15.50 and 14.05, yes, but no 15.05. The closest result is 14.90.

[identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd be a fitting response, if what I'd said was:

Es gibt 64 Möglichkeiten, daß einmalige Appetithappens haben. Kein davon gebt 15,05. 14,05 und 15,50 sind Möglichkeiten, aber 15,05 nicht. Das nächste Resultat ist 14,90.

Or something like that, I'm alarmingly out of practice.

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't know, I don't speak German. *sad*

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, could you check my edits on the [livejournal.com profile] nomicide userinfo and the New Player Guide? I think they're decently helpful.

[identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Shiny. :D