Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/269 - Sixteen Straight Runs/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $269$ - Sixteen Straight Runs
The solution leaving $3$ towns unvisited was the one provided by Dudeney.
The improved solution leaving just $1$ town unvisited was discovered by Victor Meally.
Martin Gardner presented it in his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, later republished in his $1975$ collection Mathematical Carnival.
Sources
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $427$. Sixteen Straight Runs
- 1975: Martin Gardner: Mathematical Carnival: $17$. Cooks and Quibble-Cooks