- Calvin's Quiz #397 - 5 Updates
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jun 18 01:24PM +0200 On 2015-06-15 09:36, Calvin wrote: > 1 How may squares are in a standard Sudoku grid? 81 > 2 Which French king was known as le Roi-Soleil? Louis XIV > 3 Which satirical British author's works include Porterhouse Blue (1974) and Blott on the Landscape (1975)? > 4 Which city served as the temporary capital of the USA while Washington DC was under construction? Philadelphia > 5 According to Germanic legend, who sells his soul to Mephistopheles? Faust > 6 Which church did the Rev Sun Myung Moon found? > 7 Bamako is the capital city of which African country? Never heard of. South Sudan? -- -- Björn |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jun 18 01:30PM +0200 On 2015-06-18 13:24, Björn Lundin wrote: > On 2015-06-15 09:36, Calvin wrote: >> 1 How may squares are in a standard Sudoku grid? > 81 <out-of-contest> You did mean number of squares you put numbers in, and can have pre-filled numbers ? Else I guess it is 86 81 small squares + 4 bigger ones of 36 small squares + 1 larger one of 81 small squares ;-) </out-of-contest> -- Björn |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jun 18 09:43AM -0700 On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 7:29:12 AM UTC-4, björn lundin wrote: > 1 larger one of 81 small squares > ;-) > </out-of-contest> <pedantic> if we are considering the number of squares that could be made on a sudoku grid, then the answer is quite a bit more than 86. there are 81 1x1 squares. there are 64 2x2 squares. there are 49 3x3 squares. ... so the answer is: 9*9 + 8*8 + 7*7 + 6*6 + 5*5 + 4*4 + 3*3 + 2*2 + 1*1 which is equal to the sum from i=1 to 9 of i*i, giving a total of 285 total squares. </pedantic> swp |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jun 18 09:44AM -0700 On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 3:37:00 AM UTC-4, Calvin wrote: > 10 In 1987 who became the first (and so far only) Irishman to win the Tour de France? > cheers, > calvin I really need to stop reading others replies first. swp |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jun 18 07:15PM +0200 On 2015-06-18 18:43, swp wrote: >> Else I guess it is 86 > giving a total of 285 total squares. > swp Hmm, yes of course. I though of following the thicker lines apart from the small 81 squares. -- Björn |
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