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Revisiting a Number-Theoretic Puzzle: The Census-Taker Problem

History and Overview 2012-04-11 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

The current work revisits the results of L.F. Meyers and R. See in [3], and presents the census-taker problem as a motivation to introduce the beautiful theory of numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2071,
  title  = {Revisiting a Number-Theoretic Puzzle: The Census-Taker Problem},
  author = {I. J. L. Garces and M. L. Loyola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2071},
  year   = {2012}
}
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