A standard 8 x 8 wooden chessboard has a straight line scratch in its surface, and is taken in for repair. The artisan who it is brought to decides to cover each affected square with a thin wooden veneer of the appropriate color.
Assuming that a different veneer is needed for each square of the board, what is the maximum number of such veneers that the artisan will require to do the job?
Yep I got this one right. Draw a straight line across a chessboard diagonally but dont do it from corner to corner. Do it from the center of the top side of the top left square to the center of the right side of the bottom right square. You would cover the maximum area possible in a square which would be 15! (8 x 2 - 1)
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