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Jul 24, 2023 at 11:55 comment added R. J. Mathar A guide to the related literature are the references in vixra.org/abs/1509.0140
Jul 17, 2017 at 13:04 comment added Gerry Myerson Stan Wagon posted a bucket-puzzle question to m.se, math.stackexchange.com/questions/1178368/… to which no one has posted anything by way of a solution.
Jul 17, 2017 at 8:34 answer added Ricky timeline score: 4
Aug 6, 2015 at 22:55 answer added metame timeline score: 3
Oct 3, 2013 at 20:49 history edited user9072
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Dec 30, 2010 at 13:42 comment added Thierry Zell Not directly related to your question, but I remember Nathaniel Dean math.txstate.edu/people/faculty/dean.html giving a talk at the Joint Math Meetings in '09 about undergraduate research problems, and one of them was about generalization of this puzzle (in particular to more than two buckets). So there's life in that old puzzle still!
Nov 18, 2009 at 5:20 vote accept Shlomo Shamai
Nov 17, 2009 at 10:24 answer added Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman timeline score: 23
Nov 17, 2009 at 9:31 answer added Simon Wadsley timeline score: 6
Nov 17, 2009 at 8:27 answer added Nick Salter timeline score: 7
Nov 17, 2009 at 7:58 history asked Shlomo Shamai CC BY-SA 2.5