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The Random Maze Solution

Posted by on Thursday, September 10, 2015, In : Puzzles 
A few weeks ago I posted an interesting mathematical puzzle involving a randomly generated maze. The short explanation of it was, "What is the probability that a randomly generated maze will be solvable?"

After many responses and stimulating discussion, it has become clear that no one has been able to solve it. And so I took some time this weekend to work out a brute force solution. And while it is not the simple solution that I was hoping for (and am still hoping someone will discover), it is...
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The Wire Filling Problem

Posted by on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, In : Puzzles 
A few months ago I posted an article about an interesting little mathematics problem called "The Random Maze", and based on the responses it got it would seem that my readership enjoys such things. And so to keep the enjoyment going, (and as a warm up exercise for the millions of students returning to school next week) I will be proposing another curious puzzle in today's article*.

As with my previous puzzle postings, I suspect that this one has been studied before but the few colleagues that ...
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The Random Maze

Posted by on Friday, June 5, 2015, In : Puzzles 
Earlier this week I wrote an article about an interesting (and possibly previously unpublished) about a mathematics puzzle that so far as I know does not have a simply solution. Apparently it was popular, and as such I have decided to devote today's article to another interesting puzzle. As with the previous one, I have asked a number of mathematician friends about this one and as yet I have not found a previously published source, or a solution for it. Perhaps one of you reading this will fi...
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The Greedy Snake Puzzle

Posted by on Monday, June 1, 2015, In : Puzzles 
Today I thought I would take a break from serious science and mathematics, and present for your viewing pleasure a beautiful little puzzle. This puzzle comes from a discussion I had with a student I was tutoring many years ago, and although it seems quite simple as yet no one I have shown it to has been able to solve it (and I must admit, that includes me). I also do not know the origins of this puzzle, as I have never seen it published before and so I do not know whether or not it is already...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   

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