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A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of unit fractions.
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The solution to this month’s puzzle explains how to design a Sudoku square to figure out the likes and dislikes of four or eight finicky friends.
For this month’s puzzle, design a Sudoku square to figure out the likes and dislikes of four finicky friends.
The solution to this month’s puzzle explains how to find a rule behind a given sequence of numbers and challenges readers to take on a ‘lovely’ unsolved problem.
Can you infer the simple rule behind a number sequence that spikes up and down like the beating of a heart?