Puzzles Etc.

speaking of answers from pos(t)ers, @ffao, if you're watching, i learned a lot about barycentric coordinates and linear programming from your Let's make Mango Orange Apple Juice! puzzle but have a question about a comment

You can make the solution even more symmetrical by putting the company mixtures in barycentric space too (after all they also have obvious barycentric representations). — McFry May 12 at 4:08

(by the way, by "poser" i mean one who poses a puzzle)

I was wondering what that comment meant about putting the mixtures in a barycentric space too. Doesn't the answer already do that?

ffao

I wonder what that comment means too

If I knew I would have edited it in :P

humn

thanks, could ask the commenter i guess, maybe they can edit it

ffao

I hadn't thought about the connection to LP either

humn

you wouldn't mind, i suppose, as you fixed my answer once

ffao

11:18 PM

It's awesome when people improve my answers, why would I mind

humn

oh, it brought linear programming and barycentric together for me!

two topics i've been intrigued by

your final comment about triangulation could almost go first

but might not make enough sense there

ffao

Yep, that's what I thought when I put it at the end

You need to explain why you're talking about polygons when the question itself mentions zero geometry

humn

right, but it's such a neat way to look at it

Jonathan Allan

ok @humn added pics of my notes to Wesley's answer

humn

took me on an imagined maze of edgewise links

(going to peep at the addition)

gorgeous!

is the solution complete now?

Jonathan Allan

11:24 PM

yes

I only added interlace because pairwise... may not have been clear on it's own as a self-referential function

humn

interlaced like a blooming trellis! complete with a flower garden now

Jonathan Allan

bit annoyed I didn't realise 0-ph was NOT infinite acidity (as pointed out by f'')

let it go let it go

nobody was misled

11:28 PM

was surprised how quickly the crossword was solved given the lack of position information :)

and was a shame that brute force apps gave the actual solution to the sudoku and not one of the other 6

humn

really (about the crossword), and there was so much to it that i thought the puzzle had been all but solved at that point

i found an online sudoku solver that gave all 7

yours?

Jonathan Allan

yes I think many people thought that - only reason I kept adding hints :p

don't think any hints were actually necessary except for advertising purposes ;)

mine will yes

humn

i meant is yours online?

Jonathan Allan

oh, no

is just Python code I run in cmd line

humn

i knew the online solver was a good one when it matched what you said

Jonathan Allan

11:31 PM

heh

so now back to my two unsolved puzzles? :D

humn

right! i like to take days/weeks mulling over one puzzle at a time

usually don't have the luxury, though, until someone else has solved it

keep thinking i see patterns in the linked #s puzzle, please have patience

suspect that question_answerer sees a lot more in the Strange Correspondence puzzle

Jonathan Allan

maybe

humn

q_a is very familiar with odd alphabets

Jonathan Allan

well he did suggest [language]

humn

oh, gotta be loving it

ah, but Jonathan, i've been riding another puzzle for a couple of weeks (after it was solved)

and have almost completed an alternate solution that exalts math-as-puzzle

Jonathan Allan

11:40 PM

too busy with real life I guess

oh?! which puzzle?

humn

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