Numbers in Tables : Part 2

[Guest]

(Before you read this, you better read the former thread, in this forum, under the same tittle)

Continuing the first thread, now I'll give you more tables that are filled with numbers only 1 to 40, so it won't much hurt your eyes. Thus many rows are blank. I put the file in .xls format at: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Foru ... b0b192b6e4

Tables 1-20 in sheet #1 & #2, are same as before and have been corrected some (of mistyping), Tables 21-32 in sheet #3, Tables 33-44 in sheet #4,...,Tables 273-284 in sheet #24, Table Total Amount in sheet #25.

I name and arrange the tables just like that, though you can do else.

HAPPY PUZZLING...

[bonanova]

Wow.

Looks interesting.

Now if I just had another life to spend on this.

[Guest]

If you want to spend more times, perhaps this can be cracked by you (and your name will be announced to more than 20 forums where I put this threads...)

Wow.

Looks interesting.

Now if I just had another life to spend on this.

[Guest]

The clues of this puzzle had been written at:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bi ... 1192863624

[bonanova]

The clues of this puzzle had been written at:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bi ... 1192863624

Thanks wustvn.

I have to admit that I'm more overwhelmed by the size of this thing than I am intrigued by it.

I looked at the tables a couple times but nothing occurred to me.

I'm interested in the answer tho....

[Guest]

OK, thank's.

It's very difficult indeed. I just wish a genius comes out and give me suggestions how to work it out...

[bonanova]

I misunderstood ... I thought you knew the answer.

Good luck.

[Guest]

I thought you knew the answer.

Ehmm, I wish I am genius enough...

[Guest]

I need to write again here what I’ve been doing to this puzzle, though this had been written partly in other forum. I assume you guys have seen the file sept09A.xls.

I’m not a puzzle mania, this puzzle just disturbs my mind. So to those whoever interested in this puzzle, I THINK the tables in my explanation below are the “keys” of this puzzle because:

1).Their shapes are quite different from other tables, where numbers 1 to 40 are only in certain rows. Especially in Table 45, numbers 1 to 40 are only in rows 1 & 10. (This can also approve that this is not a random case. Do you guys agree with that?). Meanwhile for other tables, numbers 1 to 40 spread almost in rows 1 to 10.

2).These tables have similar shapes each other.

E.g:

Table 45 has similar shape with Table 49 & Table 53.

Table 57 has similar shape with Table 61 & Table 65.

Here below I think tables that have similar shapes:

45,57,69,81,93,105,117,129,141,153,165,177,189,201,213,225,237,249,261,2 73.

with

49,61,73,85,97,109,121,133,145,157,169,181,193,205,217,229,241,253,265,2 77.

and

53,65,77,89,101,113,125,137,149,161,173,185,197,209,221,233,245,257,269, 281.

These tables “themselves” look similar.

E.g:

Table 49 looks similar with Table 169.

Table 73 looks similar with Table 193.

Here below I think tables look similar:

49,73,97,121,145,53,77,101,125,149,57,81,105,129,153,61,85,109,133,157,6 5,89,113,137,161,69,93,117,141,45

with

169,193,217,241,265,173,197,221,245,269,177,201,225,249,273,181,205,229, 253,277,185,209,233,257,281,189,213,237,261,165

Next time I’ll try to explain more details about the gray areas (my approaching method) as shown in Table 1, sheet #1, file sept09A.xls.

Yeah, for its big sizes, this puzzle is really tough. Needs geniuses to crack it, at least above averages…

[Guest]

Now I'd like to post this problem in a different format. I re-numbered and re-arranged the tables like the file that I attach at: Mediafire.com (a file hosting service)

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3eb376a...2db6fb9a8902bda

(name Enigma.xls).

So there are now 284 tables with ten rows (0,1,2,..9) each, which every tables contains of numbers that can be infinite, but here I give the example 1 to 40 only. The problem is how to put the next larger numbers 41,42,43 and so on in a certain rows for each tables precisely.

Thx.