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Ten Items and Two Boxes (Posted on 2013-08-12) Difficulty: 3 of 5
You have two boxes, one is filled with 10 items and the other is empty. You are allowed to transfer items one at a time from one box to the other (transfers may to either way).

There are 2^10=1024 ways to split the items between the two boxes. Can you make all the ways without repetition using only the transfer rule described above?

  Submitted by Brian Smith    
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An implementation of a binary Gray code will perform the task, as Charlie explains here.

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program generating the listCharlie2013-08-13 01:54:34
SolutionsolutionCharlie2013-08-13 01:52:49
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