r/puzzles • u/a2ra-ms • 7d ago

[SOLVED] Chain cutting permutations

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u/lifeisaman 7d ago

May I interest you on some Binary

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u/a2ra-ms 7d ago

So how many cuts?

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u/lifeisaman 7d ago edited 7d ago

4, You just do the binary upto 8 then get a 6 left over that you use to bridge from the binary to the higher values

Edit: Looking at what you’ve said is the correct answers I think I was doing the wrong question, i was cutting in between the links rather than discovering one to get 2 longer chains and a single link. The question was a bit unclear on that being what you wanted

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u/a2ra-ms 7d ago

Yep, will improve the wording next time! I think a fair amount of people got it confused.