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Daniel Garisto

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Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

By Daniel Garisto
January 10, 2022
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A surprising new solution to Leonhard Euler’s famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information.

About the author

Dan Garisto is a freelance science writer who writes mainly about physics. He has a bachelor's degree in physics from Columbia University. His work has appeared in Science, Symmetry, Science News, and Scientific American. He is based in Long Island, New York.

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