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Puzzles, problems, and quizzes.
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Enigma 1693 - Inseparable
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Enigma 1693 - Inseparable
New Scientist magazine, 14 April 2012.
By Richard England.
Albion, Borough, City, Rangers and United have
staged a tournament in which each team played
each of the others once. No two matches had
the same score, and no team scored more than
three goals in any match. Each played two home... more »
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FAA Certified & Approved AWOS Death Trap
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And now Belfort Instrument Company (dba DigiWx AWOS, Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments, Advanced Retro, RoadVista, KR Acquisition Corporation) finds itself in United States Bankruptcy Court as evidenced by: [link] Belfort Instrument Company is selling to a known terrorist country as... more »
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Enigma 1692 - Key factors
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Enigma 1692 - Key factors
New Scientist magazine, 07 April 2012.
By Susan Denham.
Clever logic should enable you to find the
nine-figure number that I have in mind. It
consists of the digits 1 to 9 in some order,
and in the number each digit is next to
another that differs from it by one.... more »
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Verdicting a case
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Over in alt.usage.english, we get queries from people who are learning
English and are having trouble understanding a sentence in English that
they read somewhere.
Today one of these posters asked a question about legal jargon:
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A reply was given to the effect that "to verdict a case" is not standard... more »
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word puzzles & language blog
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Pls check out my daily word puzzle on Twitter @howardrichler and FB
Also, my wordnerd blog @howarderichler.blogspot.com
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Cool site, with a question
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First, blast to your past with this cool Spirograph-esque site.
[link]
After playing with it for about 20 minutes (5 of which were spent figuring it out), I noticed that I could not find any patterns that were not complete in either one or two rotations. Is this just an artifact of my random searching, or is it true? And if it is, can anyone explain why all the patterns appear to have a period of 360° or 720° only, but not more?... more »
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