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How Many Ways Can You Solve a Ring-Ring Puzzle Starting From an Empty Grid?

March 30, 2022, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Location:

Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor

Rutgers University

Hill Center

Mathematics Department

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

George Spahn, Rutgers University

Ring-Ring is a pencil and paper logic puzzle. In addition to solving puzzles together, we will see how to count possible solutions using finite state machines (and linear algebra).