Author |
Topic: Re: Gnome Hair Counting (Read 1038 times) |
|
mikedagr8
Uberpuzzler
A rich man is one who is content; not wealthy.
Gender: 
Posts: 1105
|
 |
Re: Gnome Hair Counting
« on: Aug 13th, 2007, 4:02am » |
 Quote  Modify
|
Get the trees to organise it. I mean if they are real walking, talking gnomes, there must be the equivalent for trees. 
Seriously though hasn't Martin Gardner discussed this somewhere, because i have heard something similar in one of his books 
|
|
 IP Logged |
"It's not that I'm correct, it's that you're just not correct, and so; I am right." - M.P.E.
|
|
|
towr
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Some people are average, some are just mean.
Gender:
Posts: 13730
|
|
Re: Gnome Hair Counting
« Reply #1 on: Aug 13th, 2007, 4:13am » |
Quote Modify
|
It's on the this site in the guise of kabouters wearing different coloured hats.
That's the problem with finding a puzzle on the net, it can be reworded in a hundred different ways.
Start with an empty row.
Every next gnome inserts himself in the row between two gnomes with a different hair colour if possible. Or on the left otherwise.
At the end, the rightmost gnome from the row leaves the row, then joins the row again as if he was the next. The whole section of the row from where he stands to where he stood has his hair colour,t he rest has the other hair colour.
Something to that effect, anyway.
You can speed it up exponentially by doing it for small groups first, then treat each sorted group as a single gnome (or send one gnome from each group as representative)
|
|
IP Logged |
Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
|
|
|
|
RIDDLES SITE
WRITE MATH!
Home 
Help 
Search 
Members 
Login 
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print