| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 248.1 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Mon Apr 01 1985 12:20 | 4 |
| Hint:
There are exactly 24 numbers in the whole sequence.
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| 248.2 | | LATOUR::JMUNZER | | Tue Apr 02 1985 18:07 | 8 |
| The problem gets easier when the numbers in the sequence are multiplied by 3:
0123 0132 0213 0231 0312 0321 ...
... 3102 3120 3201 3210
So the sequence is the set of decimal numbers which are permutations of
{0, 1, 2, 3}, divided by three.
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| 248.3 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Wed Apr 03 1985 12:06 | 7 |
| Congratulations. That's it !
I'm kind of curious whether nobody else figured it out until my hint, OR
if some people did but thought it was so simple they'd wait and give
others a chance, OR people found the problem unmotivating to work on.
Thanks for responding.
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| 248.4 | | LATOUR::JMUNZER | | Wed Apr 03 1985 13:37 | 5 |
| Well I needed the hint. The differences (in decimal: 3, 27, 6, 27, ...)
suggested some sort of counting in some radix, but it took your hint (4!)
to focus the search.
Thank you for the problem.
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| 248.5 | | FUTBAL::GILBERT | | Wed Apr 03 1985 20:43 | 1 |
| I'd also persued the radix approach, with no success.
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