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==A Challenge== | ==A Challenge== | ||
The Dartmouth mathematics department has a new home. The old mathematics building was called Shower Towers by the students suggested by this picture of one of its walls | The Dartmouth mathematics department has a new home. The old mathematics building was called Shower Towers by the students suggested by this picture of one of its walls: | ||
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For 40 years we walked by this wall and assumed that the tiles were randomly placed. One day, as we were walking by it, | For 40 years we walked by this wall and assumed that the tiles were randomly placed. One day, as we were walking by it, and our colleaugue John Finn said "I see they are not randomly placed." What did he see? | ||
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Revision as of 20:22, 5 January 2007
Quotation
Forsooth
A Challenge
The Dartmouth mathematics department has a new home. The old mathematics building was called Shower Towers by the students suggested by this picture of one of its walls:
For 40 years we walked by this wall and assumed that the tiles were randomly placed. One day, as we were walking by it, and our colleaugue John Finn said "I see they are not randomly placed." What did he see?