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Mathematicians solve a riddle about adversarial painting hangs.

They publishedMathematicians discover the worst way to hang a painting
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Scientific American — 🇺🇸 United States
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What
  • The 1997 riddle asks if removing any one nail keeps the painting mounted.
  • By 2012, proofs showed solutions exist for any k-out-of-n nail scenario.
  • The 2-out-of-4 problem was minimized from 80 to 16 wraps.
  • Verhoeff and Heuseveldt used a computer program to verify minimal solutions.
  • The work connects to group theory, knot theory, and Boolean functions.
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published 5 Sept, 11:00Z
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