Monthly Archives: April 2010

Prisoners’ problem 4

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Vadim Kulikov

The rules are as in the previous problem, but this time there are only 100 prisoners. How should they do so that 50 of them certainly survives? 3/5

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Prisoner’s problem 3

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Vadim Kulikov

Please comment your solutions, questions and remarks.. There are infinitely many prisoners in a prison. The prisoners are taken to the yard and everyone is given a hat which is either black or white. No one knows the colour of … Continue reading →

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Prisoner’s problem 2

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Vadim Kulikov

Please comment your solutions, questions and remarks.. Consider a prison with several millions prisoners. The head of the prison arranges the following challenge to the prisoners. One prisoner at a time will be called to a room with a lamp. … Continue reading →

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Prisoner’s problem 1

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Vadim Kulikov

Please comment your solutions, questions and remarks.. We are going to have several prisoner problems! Better solve them before you end up in jail. There are 2010 prisoners in the prison. One day the chair of the prison gathers the … Continue reading →

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LHC And Artifial Inteligence Going Beyond Us

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Vadim Kulikov

Two days ago, people of the CERN Control Centre and many other scientists in the world celebrated the successful collisions of LHC. LHC is a device mainly to obtain physical data about the microscopic world, but in fact also mathematicians … Continue reading →

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