World's Oldest Puzzle Solved

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Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @12:20AM 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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it's pretty simple really (Score:2, Informative)

by kommakazi ( 610098 ) writes: on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @12:36AM (#7499602)

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.

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Re:it's pretty simple really (Score:3, Informative)

by Uma Thurman ( 623807 ) writes: on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @12:45AM (#7499642) Homepage Journal

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

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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @09:25AM (#7501252)

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