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Circumferential distances (Posted on 2006-05-21)

Place six points around a circle of circumference 27 such that every integral distance from 1 to 26 is represented as the circumferential distance between two of these points.

Submitted by Jer

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In the solution I found the six distances from one point to the next are 1, 1, 4, 4, 3, and 14.
Which correspond to the numbers 0, 1, 2, 6, 10, 13.
See the comments for a larger list of solutions.

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-03-19 00:52:01
computer solution	Charlie	2006-05-21 20:05:35
Solution	Leming	2006-05-21 17:09:28

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