Thursday, November 12, 2009

The seven point puzzle

So lets start off....

Well this puzzle was given to me by one of my friend and till date, I have no solution for it. Oh I should have told the problem instead of chatting :P

"You are given a 2-D paper and a pencil. Mark seven points on the paper such that if I select any three of them, at least two of them are at a distance of one from each other. "

I along with my frnds tried it but to no avail. Hopefully, I will get a solution here.. and please dont forget to mail me the same at nitkkr.vivek@gmail.com

I would like to warn you that making a regular hexagon abcdef (side equal 1 unit) with g as its centre will not work cause i can select the points a,c,e of which no combination of two points at unity distance is possible.

Next post will probably be on bit manipulation... and its not only for computer guys. You just need to know a bit of binary to get to this beautiful world of bit manipulation. And its damn interesting :)


Till then..
Happy puzzling,

2 comments:

  1. a good one......definitely. took some thinking to solve it out but finally got it.

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  2. Well, great solution anyways! Kudos to you, bro!

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