Given a 5x5 chess board, place the fewest number of queens possible on the board such that no queens are under attack but every other space is under attack.
(In reply to
Solution... by Matt)
Well, I didn't want to use any resources, so I just tried to figure it out...
After a quick trip to Mathworld, which I knew had the answer, it
actually is 3. Go to http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QueensProblem.html
and look at the second table. It is a hard problem because only 2
arrangements exist.
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Posted by Matt
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re: Solution... (This is real...)
