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- From: RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Chess Problem
- Message-ID: <92256.143201RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 19:32:00 GMT
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- i am not sure how to include your text in my followup...can someone tell me
- how?
-
- anyway, you said something like, "my understanding is that the only way to put
- eight rooks on a chessboard without any rook attacking another is to line them
- up along one of the diagonals."
-
- your understanding is wrong. there are eight factorial ways, not two, to
- satisfy that condition. consider: put a rook on the first column, any of eight
- ranks. you can then put a rook in the second column on any of seven ranks,
- such that it is not attacking the first. then a rook in the third column on
- any of six ranks, such that it is not attacking either of the first two. and
- so on, until you get to the last column; then there is one rank to put a rook
- in such that it does not attack any of the first seven.
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- bob vesterman
-