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From: gary@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: The Axe Murderer -- A confession
Message-ID: <8157@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 12:35:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 19 12:35:58 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 08:56:33 EST
Organization: CS Dept, U of Arizona, Tucson
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Guilty.  Not of the murder, but of reasoning most foul.  My earlier attempt
at a solution contains a fatal flaw.  To avoid my confession spoiling the
problem for others, I have rotated the rest of this message.  (My reasoning
was based on an invariant that could not be maintained.)

V gevrq gb cerfreir gur vainevnag ``Gur pragre vf orgjrra lbh naq gur
NkrJvryqre''.  V nffhzrq gung guvf vainevnag pbhyq or cerfreirq, ernfbavat
gb zlfrys gung nal punatr va cbfvgvba bs gur NkrJvryqre pbhyq or pbhagrerq
ol zbivat nybat gur irpgbe orgjrra gur NkrJvryqre naq gur pragre.  V jnf
fhssrevat sebz n irefvba bs Mrab'f Cnenqbk.  Cnfg n pregnva cbvag, lbhe
fcrrq vf vafhssvpvrag gb gur arrq.

V jnf thvygl bs abg svavfuvat nyy gur cnegf bs zl ``cebbs''.  Vs fbzrbar
ryfr unq qbar gung, V jbhyq cebonoyl unir cbhaprq ba gur zvfgnxr, fb V
gubhtug vg orfg gb pbasrff vzzrqvngryl.

Tnel Yriva
-- 
Gary Levin / Dept of CS / U of AZ / Tucson, AZ 85721 / (602) 621-4231