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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Buckets of water (references sought)
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:13:32 GMT
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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?
-
- Check out Thomas H. O'Beirne's _Puzzles_and_Paradoxes_. There's a lot of
- other interesting material in this book, though my opinion is that O'Beirne
- is not a terribly good explainer. I have never been able to understand the
- chapter on how to calculate the date of Easter.
- --
- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
-