From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T04:49:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Counting Toothpicks (#111)

On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Ben Bleything wrote:

> 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.

You people scare me.  ;)

James Edward Gray II