@TedShifrin you are right about the 8 figure it gonna always burn In the time of the slowest burning loop of the 8 and you can always find a solution to get X/3
but this is a bit of a hack , I guess my true question is : can you create 3 front of flame who are gonna die simultaneously without calculating but only using the shape of the rope
Of course the rope is non-homogeneous thus the speed of the front of flame is variable
What is the strategy for computing the determinant of a Hankel matrix? One could add all the rows to the first one and get a row of equal elements, but where would one go from there on? math.stackexchange.com/questions/3065461/…