Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!ldenenbe
From: ldenenbe@bbncc5.UUCP (Larry Denenberg)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re:  Winning 1/2 of the Lottery
Message-ID: <848@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 00:36:12 EST
Article-I.D.: bbncc5.848
Posted: Sun Jan  5 00:36:12 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jan-86 03:30:26 EST
Reply-To: larry@bbn-unix.UUCP (Larry Denenberg)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 16

The 84-ticket "solution" of my last posting is, ah, inoperative.  It depends
on a bound of 48 for L(18:3,6,3) which has been found to be wrong.  Around
7 additional tickets are needed to fix.  The details are not of interest
because greg@harvard has found another 84 ticket solution along other
(quite original) lines.  His solution will be posted soon.

My sincere apologies to all.

/Larry Denenberg
larry@{bbn-unix,harvard}

  A newspaper philosopher says the three most difficult words to pronounce
  consecutively are 'I was mistaken.'  The philosopher is himself mistaken;
  the most difficult are 'I deliberately lied.'  These are not only more
  difficult than the others, but they are more frequently true.
							    Ambrose Bierce