I appreciate the deep dive into the depths of number theory and strange graphs, but what is supposed to be tricky/confusing about the original apple/banana/etc puzzle?
Is there supposed to be some easily confused bit so people argue or just be easy so everyone rushes to show off?
The “trick” is that there are only three bananas in the last bunch and four in the others. Likewise there is a single coconut in the last equation. It appears this could be interpreted as 1 + 10 + 3.
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I appreciate the deep dive into the depths of number theory and strange graphs, but what is supposed to be tricky/confusing about the original apple/banana/etc puzzle?
Is there supposed to be some easily confused bit so people argue or just be easy so everyone rushes to show off?
(I got 10, 4, 2; maybe it confused me?)
The “trick” is that there are only three bananas in the last bunch and four in the others. Likewise there is a single coconut in the last equation. It appears this could be interpreted as 1 + 10 + 3.
That's actually half a coconut. The smaller one is ambiguous. Is it supposed to be another half or a quarter?
Ohhh. I even looked for stuff like that and didn't notice it. Brains are weird, man.