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Problem #054 – imperfect compression

Can you show that perfect compression is impossible?

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Problem #032 - restaurant roundtable

A waiter at a restaurant gets a group's order completely wrong. Can you turn the table to get two or more orders right?

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Problem #007 - binary multiples

Is it true that every integer you can think of has a multiple written out only with \(0\)s and \(1\)s?

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