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World's Oldest Puzzle Solved

Posted by Cliff on from the lasting-longer-than-rubik's-cube dept.

An anonymous reader observes: "The Loculus of Archimedes, the world's oldest puzzle, has been solved. It has 536 solutions. You can find the details here."

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  1. it's pretty simple really by kommakazi · · Score: 2, Informative

    Solving it = putting all the peices together to make a rectangle. The guy who did it simply wrote a computer program to try all possible solutions and record the correct ones (i.e ones that turned out a rectangle) Really it's like solving a puzzle.

    1. Re:it's pretty simple really by Uma+Thurman · · Score: 2, Informative

      More precisely, when the article talks about solving the puzzle, they mean finding all the possible solutions, not just one.

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  2. Re:I thought by squiggleslash · · Score: 2, Informative

    The egg. Dinosaurs had eggs. They didn't have chickens back in those days.

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