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Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 4:43 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Another really hard one this month for anyone who is bored. I've started to attempt solving it manually by recognising that numbers such as 91 must be made up of 13x7 or 7x13 and 93 being 31x3 or 3x31 but I've not got much further and decided a program would probably solve it. I wish I was good at computers!
http://www.theactuary.com/puzzles-and-g ... -may-2012/
Download the puzzles - it's the prize puzzle, number 504.
Kirk
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 11:20 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 11:33 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Looks boring.
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:48 am
by Jon Corby
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much
I get
13/27 for that one.
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 5:15 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Jon Corby wrote:Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much
I get
13/27 for that one.
Yes, we know.
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:13 am
by Jon Corby
Gavin Chipper wrote:Jon Corby wrote:Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cool. Will have a look at that as a treat after I've finished my teaching assignment. Also there's one of those conditional probability mindfuck problems at the bottom of the page that everyone loves/hates so much
I get
13/27 for that one.
Yes, we know.
Ha, good memory. Well that's reassuring
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 11:14 am
by Kirk Bevins
Well, apparently there was an error in last month's puzzle and was impossible to solve. This month's prize puzzle is therefore doubled to a £100 Amazon voucher and is an anagram crossword! This is much more like it!
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 2:40 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Can you post a link please?
Re: Latest actuary puzzle
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:20 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Eoin Monaghan wrote:Can you post a link please?
http://www.theactuary.com/puzzles-and-g ... june-2012/
The answers to last month's questions are there, including a detailed answer to the child problem where the answer is indeed 13/27.
This month's anagram crossword has some black squares not blacked in but these should be obvious.