Answering njas: definition of POLYPON

[Richard Mathar]

--- Leroy Quet <q1qq2qqq3qqqq at yahoo.com> wrote:

>....
> So, for example, for n=6, we have the pair of
> permutations I wrote of in my original email on
> this topic:
> 
> 4,2,6,3,5,1
> 6,2,4,1,5,3
> 
> Then there is one, and only one, other pair of
> permutations for n=6 that are inverses of each
> other, are not self-inverse, and conform to the
> conditions spelled out in the original post on
> this topic. (Hmmm. I will try now to find that
> pair of permutations by hand now. No matter how
> easy it is to find that pair I will not post
> back
> here that the problem is much too easy to make
> a
> good puzzle. You have been warned.)
> :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Leroy Quet
> 

Okay, I won't post the answer. But with just a
little trial and error (it wasn't too hard to
find this), I get a solution with this set of
signs:
+-+-+

Thanks,
Leroy Quet




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