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lockedroomguy New user New York, NY 65 Posts |
The New York Times had an article in yesterday's edition about mechanical puzzles, prompted by an exhibit opening next week at the Lilly Library in Indianapolis.
The link is: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/scienc......=5087%0A From the article: "In keeping with the spirit of the show, the drawers and cupboards that hold the puzzles will themselves be puzzles. 'The first person who tries to open one each day will have to solve it,' Mr. Slocum said, his eyebrows arching slyly. “With puzzles, there is really no substitute for trying them out yourself.'" Regards |
lockedroomguy New user New York, NY 65 Posts |
I see that free access to the New York Times article link has expired. You can also read a little about this exhibit here:
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/calendar.shtml#puzzles (Scroll down for the bit about the puzzles.) Regards |
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An article in Science Times on Tuesday about a new exhibition of mechanical puzzles at Indiana University included an incorrect estimate from a collector for the time it would take to solve his 65-piece Chinese ring puzzle. At a rate of one move per second, the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 moves would take nearly 585 billion years, not 56 billion Off by a factor of 10.
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