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mathematical puzzle whose solution seems to contradict its own hypotheses
This youtube video shows a mathematical puzzle that had me quite baffled, and at the moment I seem to disagree with the solution that is proposed as unique.
A leaf is torn from a paperback novel. The ...
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Bisecting a 3D object into two equal volume objects - 2
Given the following 3D object and means of an unmarked ruler
to draw lines on its surface define a straight cut that will split it into two objects with the same volume.
Hint: It seems to have at ...
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How Do You Prove That This Puzzle Is Physically Solvable?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/fyt7x9/it_seems_to_be_impossible_but_it_gets_done/?ref=share&ref_source=link
The goal of the puzzle is to remove the wooden stick from the jar by ...
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Poem coding scientific constants
The following Vogon poem contains various mathematical, scientific and cosmological numbers. There are ten. Can you find them? Credit for partial solutions.
A BTAUJV BTA ALEJM AV EUMJM FAV EATR O
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Infinitely many deaf dwarves
A beautiful puzzle, and I know the solution. I read it on an Italian riddle forum.
An evil witch kidnaps infinite (countable) dwarves. The witch tells the dwarves that the next day she will put them ...
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decode the hiring puzzle?
There is a puzzle on this site Socket_Supply_Co
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Rabbit hole's enigma calls,
Puzzle unfolds deep.
I tried to decode the first line which is ...
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Find the next number in the weird sequence
The following sequence has been made using a specific pattern and the last number is kept secret. We have to find that number along with the pattern followed to make the sequence.
3, 11, 32, 71, 136, ...
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