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2021-01-03
Happy New Year, one and all!
I think your links point to last year’s calendar puzzles. As for how to solve the puzzle on 21 December,
- permutations of [1,...,n+1] having no substring [k,k+1] - is an option.
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I think your links point to last year’s calendar puzzles. As for how to solve the puzzle on 21 December, - permutations of [1,...,n+1] having no substring [k,k+1] - is an option.
on /blog/88