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RE: [Edu] Making Games

  • From"Christopher Hickman" <tophu@xxxxxxx>
  • DateThu, 17 Aug 2006 15:12:26 -0400
> You've probably noticed that all the 2-panel cards are a distinct
> pair, and all possible pairs occur once, both in the horizontal
> and in the vertical divides. In fact, such pairings always
> produce a triangular number, as in standard dominoes, hence 10
> cards:  1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 2/3, 2/4, 2/5, 3/4, 3/5, 4/5.
>
> Isn't this just the greatest fun? You can implicitly teach group
> theory, systems thinking, combinatorics, and organizing by matching
elements. 

Wow.  Somebody is a math geek... Good on ya. Cool analysis of the patterns.
Thanks for doing the math so the rest of us didn't have to. :)


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