Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
most of the buildings are, nowadays, constructed using concrete bricks. earlier clay bricks used but availability of clay is bit hard.
manufacturing process:
the big rocks from mountain is crushed into small size in a crusher. It is then transported to the work site. there it is mixed with sand and cement to make concrete. this is done in an concrete-mixture-machine. then it is shaped into brick with help of an electric power press.
if we analyze the manufacturing process, we can see that lot of energy spent in all the way.
move the die
diagonal movement is not allowed.
any path you can choose.
what number of spots, when the die is resting on the square in the position indicated by dotted line , never appears on the top face of the die?
The clue : total of spots on the two opposite faces is SEVEN
Friday, June 8, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Oxford murders
a series of symbols is given above . what is the fourth symbol in this series? it is a puzzle asked by the Prof. Arthur seldom at the Oxford University. don't expect the answer here. if you want to know the forth symbol and also about Prof. Arthur Seldom, watch the movie "The Oxford Murders" released in 2008.
in this movie, an Oxford university professor and grad student trying to stop a series of murders linked with mathematical symbols.
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