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Date: 	
Sunday, October 2, 2005 7:26 PM  
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Subject: 	Re: Form Post From Mozilla

I have a potential POW for you.  You, as puzzlemeister
will need to put in into a more understandable form.

A friend told me once that the best defense against a
picklock is to have multiple locks and don't
necessarily lock them all.  Therefore, when the
picklock attempts to open a lock, he may actually be
locking one or more of them.

So I got to thinking about three deadbolts on a door,
each of which may or may not be locked and installed
in such a way that a picklock couldn't discern which
way to turn the tumblers to unlock or lock it.

How many locks would he have to pick in order to try
all combinations to let himself in?

At first, it would appear there are 8 combinations. 
But moving from one combination to the next might
involve picking more than one lock.

So investigated the 8 "states" of the locks.  0
meaning the initial state and 1 meaning the lock has
been changed to the other state.

0)   000
1)   001
2)   010
3)   011
4)   100
5)   101
6)   110
7)   111

Is there an order that would provide a minimal number
of pickings?  Yes, there is, each step requiring only
one pick.

0) 000
1) 001
3) 011
2) 010
6) 110
7) 111
5) 101
4) 100

so the maximum number of attempts and picks is 7.

--- Mathpage@adelphia.net </webedge/do/mail/message/mailto?to=Mathpage%40adelphia.net> wrote:

> Dear Keith,
> 
>    Good to hear from you.  Congratulations on
> solving this week's PRoblem of the Week.  Have a
> good week.
> 
> David
> 
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