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Exploring Mount Neverest

History and Overview 2024-04-04 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

The problem `Exploring Mount Neverest' by Henry Ernest Dudeney is solved. Dudeney formulated the problem in the beginning of the 20th century and gave a non-optimal solution (without estimating the non-optimality).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.2938,
  title  = {Exploring Mount Neverest},
  author = {Michiel de Bondt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2938},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, 2 errors in v1 are fixed, all estimates are computed in ancillary files

R2 v1 2026-06-21T16:14:16.880Z