[Lvlug] sup guys the NPR Weekend Edition puzzle was really easy
today
Christopher Hever
py.ohlin at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 09:21:43 EDT 2008
"From a 19th century trade card advertising Bassetts Horehound
Troches, a remedy for coughs and colds: A man buys 20 pencils for 20
cents and gets three kinds of pencils in return. Some of the pencils
cost 4 cents each, some are two for a penny and the rest are four for
a penny. How many pencils of each type does the man get?"
Hints: Gauss, unique *integer* solution
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