From: David Chelimsky Date: 2007-01-27T00:48:25+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Counting Toothpicks (#111) On 1/26/07, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Krishna Dole wrote: > > > Are minus signs allowed? > > > > ||||X||||-| = 15 (12 toothpicks) > > Let's stick with just addition and multiplication to keep things > simple. Feel free to as an option to your program though. Aw, man!!! I was already heading towards |||^|| = 9 (7 toothpicks). Time for an aspirin, and then regroup. Cheers, David > > James Edward Gray II > > >