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Latest actuary puzzle

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Another really hard one this month for anyone who is bored. I've started to attempt solving it manually by recognising that numbers such as 91 must be made up of 13x7 or 7x13 and 93 being 31x3 or 3x31 but I've not got much further and decided a program would probably solve it. I wish I was good at computers!

http://www.theactuary.com/puzzles-and-g ... -may-2012/

Download the puzzles - it's the prize puzzle, number 504.

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Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much :)
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Looks boring.
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much :)
I get 13/27 for that one.
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Jon Corby wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much :)
I get 13/27 for that one.
Yes, we know.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much :)
I get 13/27 for that one.
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Ha, good memory. Well that's reassuring :)
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Well, apparently there was an error in last month's puzzle and was impossible to solve. This month's prize puzzle is therefore doubled to a £100 Amazon voucher and is an anagram crossword! This is much more like it!
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Can you post a link please?
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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Can you post a link please?
http://www.theactuary.com/puzzles-and-g ... june-2012/


The answers to last month's questions are there, including a detailed answer to the child problem where the answer is indeed 13/27.
This month's anagram crossword has some black squares not blacked in but these should be obvious.
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