Welcome to three new puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is (as yet) unsolved. In each, the issue is how your intuition matches up with the mathematics.
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Puzzled: Breaking Chocolate Bars
By Peter Winkler
Communications of the ACM,
Vol. 53 No. 2, Page 120
10.1145/1646353.1646380
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Nikolay Kurtov
The first puzzle is really trivial. A simple program and basic induction ideas allow to solve it quickly.
Puzzles 2 and 3 are more difficult and really interesting :)