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Labeling bowling pins

IBM Research · Ponder This · July 1999

IBM Ponder This #015 · July 1999

Ten bowling pins are arranged in a triangle and labelled with the distinct integers 0,1,,9. Whenever two pins are side by side, the sum of their labels, reduced modulo 10, equals the label of the pin in front of and between them.

How are the pins labelled?

Solution

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To be added.