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February 2009
Note: Because February's challenge was very difficult, we postponed the submission deadline by a month and we'll post the solution on April 1st.
The following list of numbers is a solution to a riddle. What is the riddle? What is the single error in it?
Hint (02/11): Look at the table as a bitmap
Hint (02/16): http://www.99main.com/~charlief/brl/brl2.htm
Hint (02/24): The riddle is a slight variation on one of the riddles from http://www.tanyakhovanova.com/Puzzles.
Hint (03/03): If (radioactive) then ... else ...
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Challenge:
02/02/2009 @ 01:30 PM EST
Solution:
03/01/2009 @ 12:00 PM EST
List Updated:
03/23/2009 @ 09:00 AM EST
People who answered correctly:
Eugene Vasilchenko (02/02/2009 07:45 PM EDT)
Peter Mattsson (03/01/2009 05:19 PM EDT)
Tim Lewis (03/06/2009 11:57 AM EDT)
Gary M Gerken (03/15/2009 02:19 AM EDT)
Daniel Bitin (03/15/2009 01:02 PM EDT)
Tom Sirgedas (03/18/2009 07:11 PM EDT)
Kai Guttmann (03/30/2009 09:32 PM EDT)
Kin Keung Ma (Partial solution) (04/01/2009 10:40 AM EDT)
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