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Maximal Triangle Partitioning in n lines
Recently I was given the following problem at work: Given a 5 pointed star, draw two straight lines through it so that there are 10 minimal triangles within the drawing. It took some work but I ...
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Partition minimizing maximum of Euler's totient function across terms
Given natural numbers $M$ and $N$, I'd like to find a partition of $2^N$ with $M$ or fewer terms, $t_1 + t_2 + ... + t_M$, such that $\max(\phi(t_1), \phi(t_2), ..., \phi(t_M))$ is minimized, where $\...
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On problems of coins totaling to a given amount
I don't know the proper terms to type into Google, so please pardon me for asking here first.
While jingling around a few coins, I realized that one nice puzzle might be to figure out which $n$ or so ...
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