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Old August 6th, 2003, 08:48 PM
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Default Re: Math problem

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Originally posted by LGM:
I used a program. Here are two solutions:

N=7
3,5,6
3,4,7
2,5,7
2,4,6
1,6,7
1,4,5
1,2,3

This isn't what I was looking for. This is everybody playing 3 three man games. I wanted everybody to play EVERYBODY else once and only once in a three man game. 7 players won't work for that. You need a power of 3 as Spoon says so 9, or 27, etc.

[ August 06, 2003, 19:48: Message edited by: geoschmo ]
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