Picture-hanging puzzles
We show how to hang a picture by wrapping rope around n nails, making a polynomial number of twists, such that the picture falls whenever any k out of the n nails get removed, and the picture remains hanging when fewer than k nails get removed. This construction makes for some fun mathematical magic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer-Verlag,
2012-08-28T20:47:41Z.
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