Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!jmrobson From: jmrobson@watdaisy.UUCP (Mike Robson) Newsgroups: net.math,net.puzzle,net.games Subject: Re: Math Puzzle Message-ID: <6628@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 14:57:58 EDT Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6628 Posted: Wed Jul 4 14:57:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jul-84 00:27:35 EDT References: <2841@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 6 It looks to me as if the bit in position i in these strings is the bit required to be added to the binary representation of i-1 to give it odd parity. An interesting point is that the whole process could have been started from the string 10 instead of 1001. Mike Robson, University of Waterloo (etc.)