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From: bulko@ut-sally.UUCP (Bill Bulko)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: 5 boxes  (*  SPOILER:  solution, sort of  *)
Message-ID: <4099@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 10:53:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 10:53:48 1986
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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I remember seeing this puzzle many times.  There *is* a solution if you
bend the rules slightly.  If you believe that a line passing through the
endpoint of a line segment does NOT cross the segment, then there are
many solutions.


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Bill Bulko					Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas         {ihnp4,harvard,gatech,ctvax,seismo}!sally!bulko
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