Edited by Daniel H. Ullman, Daniel J. Velleman, Stan Wagon, Douglas B. West
{"title":"Problems and Solutions","authors":"Edited by Daniel H. Ullman, Daniel J. Velleman, Stan Wagon, Douglas B. West","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2313951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2313951","url":null,"abstract":"Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":517373,"journal":{"name":"American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139925221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playing Mastermind with Wordle-like Feedback","authors":"Renyuan Li, Shenglong Zhu","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2308489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2308489","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce an extension of Mastermind called Clear Mastermind with enhanced feedback inspired by that from Wordle. The only difference between Clear Mastermind and Mastermind is a rule that provi...","PeriodicalId":517373,"journal":{"name":"American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139925220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pamela E. Harris, Jan Kretschmann, J. Carlos Martínez Mori
{"title":"Lucky Cars and the Quicksort Algorithm","authors":"Pamela E. Harris, Jan Kretschmann, J. Carlos Martínez Mori","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2309103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2309103","url":null,"abstract":"Quicksort is a classical divide-and-conquer sorting algorithm. It is a comparison sort that makes an average of 2(n+1)Hn−4n comparisons on an array of size n ordered uniformly at random, where Hn:=...","PeriodicalId":517373,"journal":{"name":"American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139928455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a Uniqueness Problem in Discrete Tomography","authors":"Golden Sun, Vladyslav Yaskin","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2024.2311446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2311446","url":null,"abstract":"Let A be a subset of the integer lattice Zn contained inside a sphere S in Rn. Suppose that for each u∈S we know the number of points of A visible from u. Does this information determine the set A ...","PeriodicalId":517373,"journal":{"name":"American Mathematical Monthly","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139925222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}