Day: 24 September 2012
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Suppose you have a time machine that can only jump to leap days. What's the chance that a random jump will put you on a Monday? [Maths]
Here’s a puzzle for you –
AltLike the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault.Like the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault. The fault isn’t a failure of its chameleon circuit, but a quirk in its ability to jump to particular dates. Picture courtesy aussiegall (Flickr), licensed Creative Commons.
You own a time … -
The Leap Machine (Puzzle)
Dan proposes a puzzle: if you know that it is 29th February in some randomly-selected leap year, what is the probability that it is a Monday? The answer is not one-seventh...