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Tackling Logic Puzzles: Logicians Use Insightful Strategy on World Logic Day
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- Alex Bellos shares a logic puzzle for World Logic Day in The Guardian.
- The puzzle involves 10 logicians identifying hat colors in a line.
- Logicians see only the hats of those ahead and use parity to strategize.
- A variation introduces a third color, making the puzzle more complex.
- The puzzle illustrates error-correcting codes using modular arithmetic.
- This relates to real-world uses like data recovery and coding.
- Readers are encouraged to explore mathematics through discussion.
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