Today Puzzle #730
Puzzle No. 730鈥� Friday 1st May
Sunday 3 May is National Textiles Day. We have groups of 5 adjacent vertical warp threads and one cross weft thread, all of the same colour. If the weft can be woven under or over each warp, how many different patterns are there bearing in mind you can flip the resulting fabric?
Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Fellow of Girton College
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There are four patterns. If 1 means over and 0 under then these are the unique possibilities:
00000
00001
00011
00101
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