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  2. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    The problem is a paradox of the veridical type, because the solution is so counterintuitive it can seem absurd but is nevertheless demonstrably true. The Monty Hall problem is mathematically related closely to the earlier three prisoners problem and to the much older Bertrand's box paradox.

  3. Ages of Three Children puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The Ages of Three Children puzzle (sometimes referred to as the Census-Taker Problem [1]) is a logical puzzle in number theory which on first inspection seems to have insufficient information to solve. However, with closer examination and persistence by the solver, the question reveals its hidden mathematical clues, especially when the solver ...

  4. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia

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    The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle so called by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. [1] [2] Boolos' article includes multiple ways of solving the problem.

  5. List of impossible puzzles - Wikipedia

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    Coloring the edges of the Petersen graph with three colors. [5] Seven Bridges of Königsberg – Walk through a city while crossing each of seven bridges exactly once. [6] Squaring the circle, the impossible problem of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle, using only a compass and straightedge. [7]

  6. Three utilities problem - Wikipedia

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    Loyd's puzzle "The Quarrelsome Neighbors" similarly involves connecting three houses to three gates by three non-crossing paths (rather than nine as in the utilities problem); one house and the three gates are on the wall of a rectangular yard, which contains the other two houses within it. [8]

  7. List of NP-complete problems - Wikipedia

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    The problem for graphs is NP-complete if the edge lengths are assumed integers. The problem for points on the plane is NP-complete with the discretized Euclidean metric and rectilinear metric. The problem is known to be NP-hard with the (non-discretized) Euclidean metric. [3]: ND22, ND23

  8. We Need More Three Mile Islands - AOL

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    The Return of Three Mile Island Today, Three Mile Island signals a new direction for affordable, reliable, and abundant energy. When the plant initially closed in 2019, state lawmakers flirted ...

  9. Circuit satisfiability problem - Wikipedia

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    This problem asks whether it is possible to locate all the bombs given a Minesweeper board. It has been proven to be CoNP-Complete via a reduction from Circuit UNSAT problem. [6] The gadgets constructed for this reduction are: wire, split, AND and NOT gates and terminator. [7] There are three crucial observations regarding these gadgets.