Phil Harvey’s Puzzle

November 15, 2011

Today’s exercise comes to us from Michi’s blog:

Phil Harvey wants us to partition {1,…,16} into two sets of equal size so each subset has the same sum, sum of squares and sum of cubes.

Your task is to find the partition. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

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