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		<title>Submarine puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading about the German tank problem I came across a page with the following puzzle: A submarine is located at an integer n and is moving along the number line with some integer velocity v units/minute. You do not know n or v. Every minute, you have the opportunity to torpedo one integer. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=613&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Big Con</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read &#8220;The Big Con&#8221; by D. W. Maurer, a book which I had been looking for for about 10 years, and found in the local public library. I imagined it was going to be a collection of confidence tricks, but it wasn&#8217;t really like that; it was about one particular type of confidence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=603&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doublets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year! I recently obtained a book of Victorian parlour games, mostly because there were a number of games in it which were very funny, at least on paper. For example, one of them simply consists of each of the guests at a party predicting something which each of the other guests will do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=600&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Coelacanth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Funny chess puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently going through some old chess games and found one saved under the file name &#8220;resigns in winning position&#8221;. I was glad to find out that I was not the one who had resigned, although I had managed to get a losing position as white after blundering away both of my rooks. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=590&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plattfisch Fehler</title>
		<link>http://rtrv.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/plattfisch-fehler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[flatfish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ach, Leser! Es scheint mir, dass ich in letzter Zeit unsere platte Freunde etwas vernachlaessigt hab. Das ist zu sagen: ich habe nicht so viel geschrieben, vom plattfischlichen Standpunkt abgesehen, als ich geschrieben haben koennte. Heute habe ich aber ja eine Plattfisch-Geschichte, obwohl es mir nicht so lobenswert ausfaellt. Es wird allmaehlich Sommer hier in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=586&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dreiser</title>
		<link>http://rtrv.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/dreiser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading The Stoic, which is the third book in a trilogy by Theodore Dreiser, an author I have never read before. The trilogy deals with the adventures of a financier named Frank Algernon Cowperwood, who was based on the real-life Charles T. Yerkes, who is famous for having an observatory named after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=577&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ein abenteuerreicher Dienstag</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gestern bekam ich 174 Pruefungen zu bewerten. Ich bin bis &#8220;t&#8221; gelangt, und goenne mir eine Pause, die ich benutzen will, um diesen Post zu schreiben. Wie man von der Titel wohl vermuten kann, gibt es eigentlich gar nichts zu berichten. Trotzdem will ich erwaehnen, dass ich gestern zu einer Viktorianischen Tanzklasse ging, und der [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=569&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beggar my neighbour</title>
		<link>http://rtrv.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/beggar-my-neighbour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read some time ago in a book about mathematical games that it is not known whether the game Beggar my neighbour can get into an infinite loop. I am not sure whether this is still unknown, although I did find an interesting blog post about it from 2005. Anyway, I decided to do some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtrv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1679309&amp;post=562&amp;subd=rtrv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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