Quakers in science and industry: by Arthur Raistrick. 361 pages, plates and diagrams, 14 × 22 cm. New York, Philosophical Library, 1950. Price, $6.00
✍ Scribed by T.C.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1951
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 251
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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answer all of them.
In fact, some of them he cannot answer. However, he does solve the following problem.
If you have 13 coins and one of them is counterfeit as shown only by a difference in weight, determine how to locate the counterfeit coin in three weighings.
We don't know whether the counterfeit coin is heavier or lighter than the standard coin. This book will interest the layman, the mathematician, and the engineer.
In fact, there are some things in it which should interest everyone.
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