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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 13
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 13

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 37m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 13

AHA!

Puzzle This

By Michael H. Pryor

MAKE’s favorite puzzles. (When you’re ready to check your answers, visit makezine.com/13/aha.)

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Radar Date

On October 2, 2001, the date in MM/DD/YYYY format was a palindrome (the same forward as backward): 10/02/2001.

When was the last date before 10/02/2001 that this phenomenon occurred?

Crystal Orbs

You have 2 identical crystal orbs. You need to figure out at what height an orb can fall from a 100-story building before it breaks. You know nothing about the toughness of the orbs: they may be very fragile and break when dropped from the first floor, or they may be so tough that dropping them from the 100th floor ...

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