Timeline for Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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| Oct 31, 2013 at 3:48 | comment | added | Newb | An interesting practical application. Very Clever! | |
| Sep 16, 2010 at 13:53 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | A similar example is The Gnome and the Pearl of Wisdom: A Fable by Richard Willmott (animations at komal.hu/cikkek/egyeb/torpe/torpe.h.shtml). This is about a sequence of numbered boxes and numbered marbles. The boxes start out empty, then in step $ t $, the gnome puts the stone number $ t $ to box $ 0 $, then resolves the conflict of two stones being in the same box by repeatedly moving the stone with the higher number (in the first variation; lower number in the second variation) to the next box. The question is where are the stones after $\omega$ steps. | |
| Sep 16, 2010 at 12:31 | history | answered | Thierry Zell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |