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More News IS Good News... And a Logic Problem to boot... (updated 03/30/05 - 5:00 PM)

First the news:

  • Autumn was down over the weekend. It appears to be back up now!
  • We mailed 100 awards today, bringing us to files that completed as of last Friday.  We still have many of you we would like to award.  GET YOUR FORMS IN!!!
  • We will mail again on Thursday.  I'll post an update when I can.
  • Upperclass students have begun to get letters from us indicating that they are complete (once we have all of their documents in).
  • We will begin reading graduate student applications next week.
  • Ben announced the CPW “Meet the Bloggers“ event.  See here for details.

Now for a puzzle!  Apropos of Kevin's recent post, I am posting my first logic puzzle here (Mine comes from a deck of cards with logic puzzles entitled “Mind Bending Puzzles:  Positively Perplexing Math & Word Problems” by Terry Stickels.  When you come to visit, feel free to come into my office to browse some others!).

Which is larger: one-half times one-half of a dozen dozen OR one-half dozen halved and cubed?

Update:  Jane already solved it, so don't look at the comments until you have worked it out youself.  Once you have, take a look at the comments as I have added another puzzle there.

Updated again:  If you haven't looked at the comments to this post, you should.  There is a great series of puzzles going back and forth.  Join the fun!

posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:09 PM by barkowitz