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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!cc.ic.ac.uk!umahf69
  2. From: umahf69@ma.ic.ac.uk (Nairo Aparicio)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
  4. Subject: Re: A Simple Puzzle
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.173211.3898@cc.ic.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 21 Nov 92 17:32:11 GMT
  7. Sender: umahf69@ic.ac.uk (?/20000)
  8. Organization: Imperial College Mathematics Department
  9. Lines: 10
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: macar.ma
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  12. The answer is 54.
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  14. If x is the initial number of diamonds, the king found
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  16. 8*x/27 = 3*n+1       diamonds
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  18. so n=5 is the small number such that x is an integer.
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  21.                 Nairo Aparicio
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