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Listener 4114 - Three Square by Elap
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No - I haven't quite finished it yet. Still, one of the joys of a Listener comes when you learn something new, and primitive triangles are new to me. I assume that the numbers in the threes are also the genuine "answers". I do love the mathematicals!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm now where Andrew is (or was) and will put it down for a bit. I wish I could say I found some elegant way in and found a logical key that unlocked it all, but it's just been brute force and a lot of Excel. (Excel users probably have already discovered that the GCD function is useful for checking the relative primeness of two numbers.)
A week off for me, as I always pass the numericals to mathematician husband, though we send them in using my name, to avoid undue record keeping. Ironically, the only time I was ever listed as a Listener prize winner (runner-up) was one of these, and all I had done was offer a few thoughts on the end bit. Very spurious moment of glory! Never got the book, though, despite writing about it.
Still pondering the shaded areas, unsure of what to do based on the preamble: "ensure ALL rows and columns are thematically consistent." But what's the theme? 3's? Squares? Relative primes? Triangles? All of the above? I have been looking for a way in which the complete rows and columns are "thematic" to no avail.
Well, I am being dragged against my will to see the latest Harry Potter film (a Thanksgiving weekend tradition, I'm afraid). I stopped reading the books after #2 (when my kids could read the damn things themselves), so I have no idea what's going on; I slept through much of movie #6. Perhaps I can sneak 4114 and a penlight into the theater.......
Well, I am being dragged against my will to see the latest Harry Potter film (a Thanksgiving weekend tradition, I'm afraid). I stopped reading the books after #2 (when my kids could read the damn things themselves), so I have no idea what's going on; I slept through much of movie #6. Perhaps I can sneak 4114 and a penlight into the theater.......
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I have been working on the assumption that the only useful clue to the theme was in the title, although I must admit that this hasn't helped me at all , so maybe that is in error.
Enjoy the film - my children, who went to see the film for the second time this evening, have reached the teenager stage of not wanting to be seen dead with a father in the cinema.
I have been working on the assumption that the only useful clue to the theme was in the title, although I must admit that this hasn't helped me at all , so maybe that is in error.
Enjoy the film - my children, who went to see the film for the second time this evening, have reached the teenager stage of not wanting to be seen dead with a father in the cinema.
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