The 7th Beagle Boy

M. Mitchell Marmel marmelmm at drexel.edu
Thu Jun 21 22:54:01 CEST 2001


At 11:25 PM +0300 6/21/01, Eero-Pekka Halinen wrote:

>It cannot be shown due to the exciting world of maths. The numbers 
>176 (and any three numbers) can only be put in six different orders. 
>There are seven Beagle Boys, so one have to go without a number. 
>Poor 176-???.

Let's see...

176
167
617
671
716
761

Now, if you're allowed to use digits twice (like 616 or 767), it 
expands the pool considerably...

-MMM-



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