New answers tagged lateral-thinking
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Possibly partial answer, with help from Mohirl's comment:
The enumerated answer starts with:
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Turns out that the optimal solution has been known since 1991. The answer is we need
$$\left\lceil\frac{7n}{6}\right\rceil$$
gloves to have $n$ doctors operating on $n$ patients without the risk of infecting each other. This number is optimal.
Ilan Vardi published it in chapter 10 of Computational Recreations in Mathematica (Addison-Wesley). Both the proof ...
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I just want to point out that
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Answer (spoiler, I was wrong):
Reasoning:
Getting the correct answer:
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It seems likely that they have
Reasoning:
Edit for detailed reasoning:
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New opinion
What led me to it
First guess
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I think that
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A word is in the set $\Pi$ if and only if
Examples
The image of Earth
Hint 1
Hint 2
What do "homo", "cell", "mega" and "micro" have in common?
The crown picture
Astonishing coincidence
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Explanation
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Another possibility: they ran
so when they crossed the finish line
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This question is open to many different solutions, but trying to not add any elements that weren't already mentioned in the question:
One such "race" would be the (formerly olympic) sport of
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It seems that the question is not telling enough to have only one acceptable answer. Please specify more details so that there would be only one true answer.
My answer is
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First, you go to:
Then,
And finally,
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