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Mathematical recreations and essays (1911)

Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925 · London, Macmillan and Co., limited · leaf 211

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puzzle which can be threaded in this way. Assuming that the path forks as described above, the more numerous the nodes and the higher their order the more difficult will be the maze, and the difficulty might be increased considerably by using bridges and tunnels so as to construct a labyrinth in… … in my own garden on a plot of ground which would not allow of more than 36 by 23 paths, but it will be noticed that none of the nodes are of a high order.

Geometry · Astrology · Space and time · Matter · Magic squares · Mathematical recreations

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