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- From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Buckets of water (references sought)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.051918.6384@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 05:19:18 GMT
- References: <KAI.92Jul26211336@cyklop.nada.kth.se>
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- In article <KAI.92Jul26211336@cyklop.nada.kth.se> kai@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Kai-Mikael J-Aro) writes:
- >I have been thinking about those old puzzles where you are given two
- >buckets of specific volumes and have to measure up a certain,
- >different, volume of water in one of them.
- >
- >Has anything been written on this subject? (I can't even begin to
- >guess how to make a literature search. "Look for 'bucket' and/or
- >'water' - whoops 45000 hits..." ;-)
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- There is a classic book, "Rigidity of Behavior," by Abraham Luchins,
- which discusses the psychology (rather than the mathematics) of
-