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Impossible scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

H.A. Fay
H.A. Fay*
Affiliation:
Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex
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Extract

In a game where there are two ways of adding to your score, but one way gives you more points than the other, some scores may be impossible to obtain. For example, you could never achieve 19 points in a game where each score was either 4 points or 9 points.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 59 , Issue 409 , October 1975 , pp. 154 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1975

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References

1. March, Lionel and Steadman, Philip, The geometry of environment. RIBA Publications (1971).Google Scholar