Problem 44851. X O X Oh!

Created by Ciaran McAndrew

Solve Later

{"relationships":[{"relationshipType":"http://schemas.mathworks.com/matlab/code/2013/relationships/document","targetMode":"","relationshipId":"rId1","target":"/matlab/document.xml"},{"relationshipType":"http://schemas.mathworks.com/matlab/code/2013/relationships/output","targetMode":"","relationshipId":"rId2","target":"/matlab/output.xml"}],"parts":[{"partUri":"/matlab/document.xml","relationship":[],"contentType":"application/vnd.mathworks.matlab.code.document+xml","content":"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<w:document xmlns:w=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main\"><w:body><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"text\"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:rPr><w:i/></w:rPr><w:t>This follows on from problem 44850 - X O X O</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"text\"/></w:pPr><w:hyperlink w:docLocation=\"https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/44850-x-o-x-o\"><w:r><w:t>&lt;https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/44850-x-o-x-o</w:t></w:r></w:hyperlink><w:r><w:t>&gt;</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"text\"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>On a noughts and crosses board, how many possible unique combinations are there given a square grid of length n?</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"text\"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>Assumptions/constraints:</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"ListParagraph\"/><w:numPr><w:numId w:val=\"1\"/></w:numPr></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>All squares are populated.</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"ListParagraph\"/><w:numPr><w:numId w:val=\"1\"/></w:numPr></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>Number of naughts and number of crosses can only differ by a maximum of 1 I.E. The game was played until the board was full.</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"ListParagraph\"/><w:numPr><w:numId w:val=\"1\"/></w:numPr></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>A solution with more than one \"win\" cannot be valid as the game would have finished before the board was full!</w:t></w:r></w:p></w:body></w:document>"},{"partUri":"/matlab/output.xml","contentType":"text/xml","content":"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\" ?><embeddedOutputs><metaData><evaluationState>manual</evaluationState><layoutState>code</layoutState><outputStatus>ready</outputStatus></metaData><outputArray type=\"array\"/><regionArray type=\"array\"/></embeddedOutputs>"}]}

Solve

Solution Stats

11 Solutions
4 Solvers

Last Solution submitted on May 06, 2019

Last 200 Solutions

Problem Comments

1 Comment

1 Comment

William on 16 Feb 2019

I'm getting a different answer, by a few, than the test suite.

Problem Recent Solvers4

Problem Tags

discrete maths games