From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T04:26:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Counting Toothpicks (#111)

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007, 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.

Another interesting corollary would be to allow any roman numerals that
can be represented with toothpicks...

20 could be represented with 6: X+X, XxII, etc.

*shrug*

Ben