matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (02/21/86)
In article <480@faron.UUCP> meister@faron.UUCP (Philip W. Servita) writes: >Better Problem: (for this problem, assume the Penny Width (PW) to be the >unit of distance) Two players are about to play this game on a round table >of diameter N PW, for unknown N. Unfortunately, a Malicious Mathematician has >Krazy Glued a penny to position (0,.5PW). Determine the set of real numbers N >for which this game is a first player win. The first player wins for all N >= 2. (I.e., if the first player has a legal play, then it's a win.) Strategy: play the first penny at (0,-.5PW), then preserve the C-2 axis of symmetry. This seems too easy. Did I overlook something? _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt