Re: Enigma 1631 - Joe's pyramid

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:20:15 +0000, Dr Nick wrote:

Chappy <petergregorychapman@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mar 13, 8:49 pm, Ted Schuerzinger <fe...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(Could you do your diagrams in ASCII?  Your use of Unicode really
screwed up the formatting in my newsreader.)

Roger that.

Shame! It looked beautiful from here (in GNUs no less).

Here's what it looked like to me:

<snip>

Enigma 1631 - Joe's pyramid
New Scientist magazine, 29 January 2011.
By
Bob Walker.

This is Joe's pyramid.

┌─────┐

│ X │
┌──┴──┬──┴──┐
│ │ │

┌──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┐
│ │ │ │

┌──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┐
│ │ │ │ │

┌──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┐
│ │ │ │ │ │

┌──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┬──┴──┐
│ │ │ │ │
│ │
└─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┘

Every stone is marked
with a different one
or two digit positive number. Where a
stone rests
on two others, its number is
the sum of the numbers marked on the
two
stones on which it rests.

What number is X?

Ciao,
Chappy.

</snip>

Now, it ought to show properly for me, since I'm using a
Unicode-compliant browser. (My guess is Google Groups is screwing up.
Even if they're not, GG is a convenient scapegoat.)

--
Ted S.
fedya at hughes dot net
Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com
.

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