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Puzzled
Covering the plane

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Welcome to three new puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is (as yet) unsolved. In each, the issue is how your intuition matches up with the mathematics.

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  • (2011)Logic training through algorithmic problem solvingProceedings of the Third international congress conference on Tools for teaching logic10.5555/2021573.2021581(62-69)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2011

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 11
    Scratch Programming for All
    November 2009
    135 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/1592761
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    Published: 01 November 2009
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    • (2016)Unsplittable coverings in the planeAdvances in Mathematics10.1016/j.aim.2016.07.011302(433-457)Online publication date: Oct-2016
    • (2015)Unsplittable Coverings in the PlaneRevised Papers of the 41st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - Volume 922410.1007/978-3-662-53174-7_20(281-296)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2015
    • (2011)Logic training through algorithmic problem solvingProceedings of the Third international congress conference on Tools for teaching logic10.5555/2021573.2021581(62-69)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2011

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