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Puzzling Adventures

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In this last chapter, we consider three problems from a delightful book (Shasha in The puzzling adventures of Dr. Ecco. Dover Publications Inc., Mineola, 1998, [7]).

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  1. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Andrew Chiang-Fung Liu

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Liu, A.CF. (2018). Puzzling Adventures. In: S.M.A.R.T. Circle Projects. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56811-9_10

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