August 6th, 2003, 09:50 PM
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Re: Math problem
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Originally posted by LGM:
Only solutions are 3, 7, 15, 31,...
Other numbers of players leave a three some with two players and no one to match them with. Someone demonstrated this earlier with 9 players.
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Right, but other then working them out by hand, or having you plug it into yoru black box and give me the result, can you explain how you know this? What I am trying to learn is not the answer, but how the answer is derived.
Geoschmo
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