October 2013
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Color the squares of an 8x8 check-board in two colors (black and white) and calculate the percentage of black squares in every one of the 8 rows, 8 columns and 30 diagonals.
Our challenge this month is to find such coloring which gives the same percentage for every row; different one for every column and as many different numbers in the diagonals as possible.
Supply your answer as 8 lines of 8 B/W characters.
For example, the following is a solution for a 2x2 case of the problem:
BW
BW
The column percentage is 0%, 100%; all rows are 50% and the diagonals has 0%,50% and 100% (each appears twice).
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Challenge:
10/01/2013 @ 01:00 PM EST
Solution:
11/01/2013 @ 01:00 PM EST
List Updated:
10/18/2013 @ 01:00 PM EST
People who answered correctly:
Lorenz Reichel (10/02/2013 05:04 AM EDT)
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Andrew Gacek (10/02/2013 10:43 AM EDT)
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Jason Patskoski (10/02/2013 11:54 AM EDT)
Joseph DeVincentis (10/02/2013 01:53 PM EDT)
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Alan Murray (10/02/2013 03:12 PM EDT)
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Joe Clark (10/02/2013 04:14 PM EDT)
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Kan Shen (10/02/2013 09:23 PM EDT)
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James Dow Allen (10/03/2013 06:35 AM EDT)
Tim Nordenfur (10/03/2013 10:16 AM EDT)
Michael Wilms (10/03/2013 01:34 PM EDT)
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