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Baron Munchhausen Redeems Himself: Bounds for a Coin-Weighing Puzzle
Tanya Khovanova, Joel Brewster Lewis
We investigate a coin-weighing puzzle that appeared in the Moscow Math Olympiad in 1991. We generalize the puzzle by varying the number of participating coins, and deduce an upper…
math.HO2010★ 8 cited
Odd One Out
Tanya Khovanova
This article covers my second talk at the Gathering for Gardner in March, 2010. It is about an Odd One Out puzzle I invented, after having been inspired by Martin Gardner. I do not…
math.CO2010
Baron Munchhausen's Sequence
Tanya Khovanova, Konstantin Knop, Alexey Radul
We investigate a coin-weighing puzzle that appeared in the all-Russian math Olympiad in 2000. We liked the puzzle because the methods of analysis differ from classical coin-weighin…