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- From: sbardhan@uncc.edu (Soumendu Bardhan)
- Subject: Re: Interesting Discrete Math Question
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:09:28 GMT
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- Here is my try:( may sound dumb to you !)
- To find the minimum number of chips, first we have to find the maximum number of possible chips
- which will not contain that pair;
- If we can select numbers like the following ---
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- 1 2 3, 7 8 9, 13 14 15, ..... 91 92 93, 97 98 99
- ----- ----- -------- -------- -------
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- the maximum number of numbers such that no two chips have difference of 3 is 51.
- So, if we include any other chip to this group it will have a number in this group which satisfies our condition
- Hence, the minimum number to be drawn is 52.
- ---bardhan
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