How to To Get the Right Answer with as Few Questions as Possible (videtaped Lecture)
By Doron Zeilberger
Lecture
This lecture was delivered to RUMA (Rutgers Undergraduate Mathematics Association) on Feb. 24, 2021.
(Exclusively published in the Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger)
Delivered: Feb. 24, 2021
Maple package
Sample Input and Output files for FakeCoin.txt
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If you want to see TERSE solutions to the (3^n-3)/2-coin problem for n from 2 to 6 using Dr. Z.'s
completely "thought-less", "hill climbing approach"
The
input file produces the
output file.
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If you want to see TERSE solutions to the (3^n-3)/2-coin problem for n from 2 to 8 using 22-year-old Freeman Dyson,
clever "clockwise" approach ("The problem of the Pennies", Math. Gazette,Oct. 1946, vol. 30, No. 291 , pp. 231-234)
The
input file produces the
output file.
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If you want to see VERBOSE solutions to the (3^n-3)/2-coin problem for n from 2 to 6 using 22-year-old Freeman Dyson's
("The problem of the Pennies", Math. Gazette,Oct. 1946, vol. 30, No. 291 , pp. 231-234)
clever "clockwise" approach
The
input file produces the
output file.
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