September 2000
The August puzzle was rather tricky, for September we have a straightforward puzzle.
Simplify the following:
sqrt ( 3 - sqrt 5 ) + sqrt ( 4 + sqrt 7 ) + sqrt ( 6 - sqrt 35 )
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Challenge:
09/05/2000 @ 2:00 PM EST
Solution:
10/02/2000 @ 8:30 AM EST
List Updated:
10/02/2000 @ 8:30 AM EST
People who answered correctly:
Ming Song (9.5.2000 @ 3:01 PM EDT)
Mohit Sauhta (9.5.2000 @ 4:11 PM EDT)
Muralidhar Seshadri (9.5.2000 @ 5:28 PM EDT)
Lawrence T Hoff (9.5.2000 @ 5:53 PM EDT)
Eben Stewart (9.5.2000 @ 8:22 PM EDT)
Young Park (9.5.2000 @ 9:05 PM EDT)
Amir Elad (9.6.2000 @ 7:09 AM EDT)
Francis Golding (9.6.2000 @ 8:54 AM EDT)
Gregoire Malandain (9.6.2000 @ 8:54 PM EDT)
Dave Biggar (9.6.2000 @ 3:09 PM EDT)
Ether Jones (9.6.2000 @ 3:30 PM EDT)
Jim Morgan (9.6.2000 @ 6:40 PM EDT)
Lenny Kneller (9.6.2000 @ 8:05 PM EDT)
Ionel Santa (9.7.2000 @ 4:39 AM EDT)
Samantha Levin (9.7.2000 @ 9:37 AM EDT)
Olivier Miakinen (9.7.2000 @ 11:45 AM EDT)
Jonathan A Wildstrom (9.7.2000 @ 12:51 PM EDT)
Raju Krishnamoorthy (9.7.2000 @ 2:14 PM EDT)
Bernard Widynski (9.7.2000 @ 3:10 PM EDT)
Jessica Lang Jones (9.7.2000 @ 4:27 PM EDT)
Guangwu Xu (9.7.2000 @ 4:46 PM EDT)
Manikantan Srinivasan (9.7.2000 @ 4:59 PM EDT)
Tao Lin (9.7.2000 @ 10:07 PM EDT)
Shmuel Spiegel (9.7.2000 @ 10:34 PM EDT)
Meredith Evans (9.8.2000 @ 9:27 AM EDT)
Jacques Willekens (9.8.2000 @ 9:32 AM EDT)
Scott Evans (9.8.2000 @ 1:01 PM EDT)
Prithu Bharti Tiwari (9.8.2000 @ 3:35 AM EDT)
Al Zimmermann (9.8.2000 @ 4:04 PM EDT)
Alexis Megas (9.8.2000 @ 4:41 PM EDT)
Philippe Fondanaiche (9.8.2000 @ 5:26 PM EDT)
Arvind Narayanan (9.8.2000 @ 6:21 PM EDT)
Roger Brooks (9.8.2000 @ 7:28 PM EDT)
Achava Nakhash (9.9.2000 @ 12:25 PM EDT)
Mihai Cioc (9.9.2000 @ 6:00 PM EDT)
Stephan Voss (9.11.2000 @ 8:37 AM EDT)
Howard Kaye (9.11.2000 @ 4:08 PM EDT)
Andrew C Tong (9.11.2000 @ 4:48 PM EDT)
Bill Daly (9.11.2000 @ 5:57 PM EDT)
Donald Howes (9.12.2000 @ 1:46 AM EDT)
Bruno DeNys (9.12.2000 @ 9:25 AM EDT)
Prashanth Hande (9.12.2000 @ 6:09 PM EDT)
HP Ravikiran (9.13.2000 @ 3:44 PM EDT)
David J McKee (9.14.2000 @ 8:13 PM EDT)
Tim Edmonds (9.15.2000 @ 8:36 AM EDT)
Jarrus Mitchell (9.15.2000 @ 4:51 PM EDT)
Walter Steets (9.16.2000 @ 2:36 PM EDT)
Dmitri Asonov (9.17.2000 @ 11:14 AM EDT)
Guenter Mair (9.17.2000 @ 1:11 PM EDT)
Susan Schwartz Wildstrom (9.17.2000 @ 6:27 PM EDT)
Jose F Martinez (9.18.2000 @ 1:00 AM EDT)
Alexey Vorobyov (9.19.2000 @ 12:41 PM EDT)
Peter Tran (9.19.2000 @ 3:42 PM EDT)
Daniel Li (9.20.2000 @ 2:54 PM EDT)
hyleeb (9.21.2000 @ 2:10 AM EDT)
Christie Bolton (9.21.2000 @ 5:32 PM EDT)
Rahul Gupta (9.22.2000 @ 6:40 PM EDT)
Brad Long (9.27.2000 @ 3:39 AM EDT)
Beimel Bernd (9.27.2000 @ 3:53 AM EDT)
Rael Limbitco (9.27.2000 @ 5:08 PM EDT)
Thomas Rohr (9.28.2000 @ 11:50 AM EDT)
Edgar Romero (9.30.2000 @ 4:27 PM EDT)
Chen Huang (10.01.2000 @ 1:00 AM EDT)
Avi Shalav (10.01.2000 @ 12:59 PM EDT)
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