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==Forsooth==
==Forsooth==


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==A Challenge==
The Dartmouth mathematics department has a new home.  The old mathematics building was called Shower Towers by the students as suggested by this picture of one of its walls
<center>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/forwiki/bradley2.jpg</center>


 
For 40 years we walked by this wall and assumed that the tiles were randomly placed. One day as we were walking by it one of our colleauges said "I see they are not randomly placed."  What did he see?
<center>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/forwiki/bradley4.jpg</center>


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Revision as of 20:12, 5 January 2007

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Forsooth

A Challenge

The Dartmouth mathematics department has a new home. The old mathematics building was called Shower Towers by the students as suggested by this picture of one of its walls

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/forwiki/bradley2.jpg

For 40 years we walked by this wall and assumed that the tiles were randomly placed. One day as we were walking by it one of our colleauges said "I see they are not randomly placed." What did he see?

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