Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!lambert From: lambert@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: list of points problem Message-ID: <6272@boring.UUCP> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 12:58:44 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6272 Posted: Mon Dec 31 12:58:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 06:25:06 EST References: <203@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> <25@epsilon.UUCP> <208@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> <6268@boring.UUCP> Reply-To: lambert@boring.UUCP (Lambert Meertens) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 13 Summary: Reference to published solutionApparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL Excerpt from letter received in reply to my article 6268@boring: > The first published solution to that problem was by Berlekamp and > Graham in J. Number Theory 2 (1970), 152-161. (The answer is 17.) > Another solution was published some years later by Warmus. I have not looked this up, our library being closed. If the article contains interesting insights, I will post a summary. -- Lambert Meertens ...!{seismo,philabs,decvax}!mcvax!lambert@boring.UUCP CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam