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    Anyways, that was an excellent puzzle, witzar! Well done!
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    Is there a more elegant reasoning to show why that is?
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    A loosely related question: Is it possible to prove that a statement cannot be proven but can be disproven?
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    In the OP, you asked why or why not. Can the existence of a solution be verified before finding one?
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    Since nobody has gotten this... Here's the answer:
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    Sorry for spoiling the fun, but here's a modified excerpt that explains the theorem for the case of natural numbers:
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    Well, what are the chances: I just wrote about this in my blog.
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    Wait, I just realized that the question is asking about D(2015), not D(2014).
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    A programmer's solution. That's a beautiful triangle. Bonanova, is this an original puzzle? I'm not completely convinced that there's always a solution, and I don't think plasmid is either. Was there another strategy that you had in mind?
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    Do they have time to strategize?
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    Is the answer just "yes"?
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    Let's see if there are any other thoughts Is there any sort of probability distribution for Alice's margin of error? Can it be anything between 0 and infinity?
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    oh yeah, so it looks like plasmid got it before me.
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    Exactly.
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    It would be interesting to simulate this strategy against a grid of Paula numbers. I can't tell, from analysis or intuition, whether the strategy is effective. We must not have the same solution in mind.
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    Yes, but they must all be different numbers.
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    It's the latter. I can't figure this out.
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