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Subject: Re: The "Strand" puzzle --- ( Continued Fractions using Lisp or
 Python? )
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:58:21 -0700
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On 7/26/2024 5:37 AM, IlanMayer wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:07:56 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
> 
>>
>> e.g. -------- For the (street)  Numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
>>
>>                          (1,2,3,4,5)  and  (7,8)  both add up to 15.
>>
>>
>>
>> “In a given street of houses with consecutive numbers between 50 and
>> 500, find the house number, for which, the sum of numbers on the left is
>> equal to the sum of numbers on the right”
>>
>>
>>
>>   Ramanujan and Strand Puzzle
>>
>>             this was a very interesting puzzle tackled by the genius
>> Srinivasa Ramanujan.        In the year 1914, P.C. Mahalanobis, a Kings
>> college student in England, got hold of a puzzle from the Strand
>> magazine.
> 
> Solution found at:
> https://ubpdqnmathematica.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/ramanujan-and-strand-puzzle/


thanks!



 >>>    So the solutions to the Strand puzzle can be found from the 
continued fraction of \sqrt{2}, which  _is_  satisfying simple.


 >>>   Using Mathematica to look at the first 10 convergents


---------- is this (also) easy to do using Lisp or Python???