The Unofficial IEEE Brainbuster Gamebook: Mental Workouts for the Technically Inclined Paperback - 1992 - 1st Edition
by Compiled by Donald R. Mack
These innovative, witty, and utterly outrageous brainbusters from the world's most highly recognized experts in electronics and computing engineers challenge readers reasoning power and intuition while honing their problem-solving skills. (Mathematics)
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Trying to keep those mental muscles in shape? Search no further! Here's a book with hours and hours of IQ-busting fun to challenge your brain strength and test the very depths of your gumption. These innovative, witty, and utterly outrageous brainbusters engage your reasoning power while honing your problem-solving skills. Beginning with easier puzzles, then getting progressively more difficult, this tantalizing collection will increase brain power with each puzzle you conquer. Need help? Don't worry--we've added a special "Solutions" section that gives a detailed answer to each brainbuster. This ingenious volume offers more than 180 puzzlers including:
- An archaeologist walking along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea finds an old Roman coin. On one side is the face of Julius Caesar and the date is 44 BC. On the other side is an olive tree. The archaeologist says, " The coin is counterfeit." How does she know?
- What is the probability that if you cut a straight stick at two arbitrary places, you can make a triangle with the three pieces?
- At Disney World a canal joining two lakes passes over a road on an aqueduct. When a boat goes across, does it increase the load on the aqueduct?
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- Title The Unofficial IEEE Brainbuster Gamebook: Mental Workouts for the Technically Inclined
- Author Compiled by Donald R. Mack
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-IEEE Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-08-14
- ISBN 9780780304239 / 0780304233
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.95 x 5.02 x 0.31 in (20.19 x 12.75 x 0.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mathematical recreations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92004724
- Dewey Decimal Code 793.74
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