[seqfan] Re: 9 dots puzzle

[Dmitry Kamenetsky]

Great news. Do you know which paper it is, because he has many.

Dmitry 
 
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From: "Richard Guy" rkg at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" seqfan at list.seqfan.eu
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:13:42 -0700 (MST)
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> I believe that there's a paper by Sol Golomb which answers this. R.
> 
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, David Wilson wrote:
> 
>> For n = 3 through 10, 2n-2 lines suffice, although I cannot say if this
is 
>> optimal.
>>
>> http://www.mathpuzzle.com/dots.html
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitry Kamenetsky" 
>> dmitry.kamenetsky at rsise.anu.edu.au
>> To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" seqfan at list.seqfan.eu
>> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 6:00 PM
>> Subject: [seqfan] 9 dots puzzle
>>
>>> Hello fans,
>>>
>>> Consider the 9 dots puzzle:
>>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_box#Nine_dots_
>>> puzzle
>>> You are asked to join 9 dots (on integer coordinates) using 4 straight,
>>> continuous lines (strokes).
>>>
>>> I am now wondering: what is the smallest number of strokes required to
>>> join
>>> all the points arranged in a NxN grid? The sequence starts with 1,3,4.
How
>>> to compute the rest of it?
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dmitry Kamenetsky 
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