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Anil Saigal
03/20/2013

PROBLEM #1

Given only one of each letter in the alphabet, what are the smallest and largest numbers that you could write down?

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

What is the next number in the following sequence?

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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