Feynman’s Puzzle

June 12, 2009

Richard Feynman was an American physicist; he worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work in the development of quantum electrodynamics, and famously demonstrated the inelasticity of the rubber o-rings on the space shuttle Challenger using a clamp, a rubber band, and a glass of ice water. Feynman proposed this puzzle:

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Your task is to solve Feynman’s Puzzle. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your solution or discuss the exercises in the comments below.

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