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IBM Research "Ponder This" Puzzlemaster Comes to Tech
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A School of Mathematics Seminar with IBM Research puzzlemaster Oded Margalit
IBM Research runs a mathematical challenge site, called "Ponder This." Every month the site posts a new challenge and reveals the solution for the previous month's riddle. Oded Margalit has been the puzzlemaster since 2005. He will survey some of the riddles over the years and tell some anecdotes about the challenges and the solvers, for example:- PRL paper born from a riddle on random walks
- ITA-2014 paper on water hose model (using quantum entanglement to break location based encryption)
- Games: 2048, Kakuro, Infinite chess game, the probability of a backgammon to end with a double Fisher Foul Chess and more
- Minimal hash function
- Combinatorial test design
- A solver from the intensive care unit and other stories
- Finding a natural number n such that round ((1+2 cos(20))^n) is divisible by 10^9
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- Created By: sbarone7
- Created: 03/07/2018
- Modified By: A. Maureen Rouhi
- Modified: 03/07/2018
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