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Post #83784

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DanielB
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Riddles
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Date created
6-Jan-2005, 1:53 PM
Even if the lines are thicker than the dots you can still achieve the answer I provided. That was simply the best way of drawing it on a PC.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
DanielB: nice answer... but the dots are supposed to have no size at all.
Even if the lines are thicker than the dots you can still achieve the answer I provided. That was simply the best way of drawing it on a PC.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
So I guess to make the other answer correct, you have to specify that the lines must bisect the circles into halves when they cross through them. Then the four line solution will work.
No it wouldn't:



Even if you extend the left line through the top-left dot, you'll be dissecting that dot into 4 pieces, not two equal halves. You could argue that that single line dissects it into equal halves, but then the other two lines going into it are not, and it would still fail your specifications.