Timeline for Math puzzles for dinner
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 0:26 | comment | added | anon | I wonder if this problem was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug," which contains a search for a treasure on an island using a tree and a specified direction. The search does not require any math (although the message telling them where to search is written in code, and the story explains how to solve a simple substitution cipher). I imagine a mathematically inclined reader liking the story, but wanting to improve how Poe's character hid the treasure. I bet Poe would have liked this problem. | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 21:43 | comment | added | Tracy Hall | Nice. Instead of making random guesses about the location of the treasure, he should have made at least one random guess about the former location of the gallows! | |
| Jul 31, 2010 at 10:33 | history | answered | Anweshi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |