PUZZLE IBM-186
B&W coloring of a chess board
IBM Research · Ponder This · 2013-10
IBM Ponder This #186 · October 2013
Color the squares of an 8x8 check-board in two colors (black and white) and calculate the percentage of black squares in every one of the 8 rows, 8 columns and 30 diagonals.
Our challenge this month is to find such coloring which gives the same percentage for every row; different one for every column and as many different numbers in the diagonals as possible.
Supply your answer as 8 lines of 8 B/W characters.
For example, the following is a solution for a 2x2 case of the problem:
BW
BW
The column percentage is 0%, 100%; all rows are 50% and the diagonals has 0%,50% and 100% (each appears twice).
Solution
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