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Anil Saigal
03/20/2013
PROBLEM #1
PROBLEM #2
A 1-metre stick is broken into two pieces at random. What is the length of the shorter piece, on average?
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Problems from 03/14/13
PROBLEM #1
What is the next number in the following sequence?
3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5,...
SOLUTION 1
3.
PROBLEM #2
1, 6, 120, 5040,...
SOLUTION 2
362880.
Congratulations to Kishore Balsara, Aseem Chandawarkar, Suhas Joglekar, Arun Lahori, Saba Lateef and Samir Mehta, who were the winners of the last set of puzzles.
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