Article 6SFWF Did you solve it? Brain training for Martians

Did you solve it? Brain training for Martians

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Alex Bellos
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The answers to today's puzzles

Earlier today I set you three problems from a maths competition for Martian schoolchildren. By Martian, I mean Hungarian.

In the mid-twentieth century, a generation of outstanding mathematicians and physicists from Hungary were humorously called Martians, as their intelligence was from another planet.

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