File: Connect 3 houses with 3 utilities.swf-(28 KB, 600x400, Game)
[_] Someone fucking solve this!!! Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)21:46 No.2030752
My brain is melting!
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)21:54 No.2030768
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water,_gas,_and_electricity
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)21:59 No.2030780
Simple explanation
Why is it impossible to solve this puzzle in 2 dimensions? Have a look at the diagram in fig. a
below and you will understand that 3 connections starting from 2 utility suppliers will
inevitably ENCLOSE one of the houses preventing it from being connected to at least one utility
supplier (according to Jordan's curve theorem, a loop or a closed curve will have an inside and
an outside no matter how we stretch or curve our lines, as long as they don't cross).
Alternative solution 1
Nevertheless, this puzzle is possible to solve by using subterfuge... The only way this can be
done without the lines crossing is by allowing one of the lines (it doesn't matter which one) to
enter a house or a utility company and then emerge from the building on the other side. In fact,
the wording of the puzzle is a bit imprecise and doesn't forbid lines to go through the houses or
to use the third dimension!
http://www.archimedes-lab.org/How_to_Solve/Water_gas.html
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:03 No.2030789
>>2030780
But the game doesn't allow running lines through houses.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:05 No.2030791
>>2030752
is it even possible?
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:09 No.2030796
>>2030752
fuck your 2D house. they would get just 2 services cuz they are third world!!!!
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:12 No.2030807
>>2030768
OP here.
Well that was quick. Had hoped for some funny comments.
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>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:38 No.2030836
>>2030752
>>2030768
>tfw took Topology and Graph Theory
>tfw this was the first shit to come up in classes
Math major mustard race
any job I want $300k starting
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:40 No.2030841
>>2030836
If you get a job.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:42 No.2030846
>>2030836
Keep thinking that when you're flipping burgers faggot.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)22:47 No.2030857
>>2030836
The important thing is to do something you want to do.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/07/13(Sun)23:08 No.2030871
>>2030841
school has loadsa internships
>>2030846
not going to need to as I become a quant, or actuarial scientist
most likely financial engineering & risk management
jewstein banks will line up for me
>>2030857
math has always been my main passion in life, wanted to become a mathematician+physicist, but I'm
simply not smart enough
so became a jew instead and joined the finance world, to compensate my lack of ability to help
humanity progress
considering suicide
>> [_] Anonymous 07/08/13(Mon)00:26 No.2030959
just fucking did it
>> [_] Anonymous 07/08/13(Mon)00:28 No.2030964
>>2030871
Get a physics degree once you've got your life set.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/08/13(Mon)00:32 No.2030967
There is a glitch that allows you to clip a line through one of the houses, I remember because
everyone posting that image is what killed people linking this on /b/.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/08/13(Mon)00:46 No.2030983
>>2030964
was just going to learn in my spare time, but all the same
>>2030967
pics?
