OT : A "Lockdown" Puzzle

' (He stated the gear next to the one he had a problem with was going backwards) '

You're kidding!!

I wish I was.

A degree holding, college graduated "engineer"

saultgeorge said:

' (He stated the gear next to the one he had a problem with was going backwards) '

You're kidding!!

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I have a cool program that will calculate the driving and driven gear to achieve a ratio. You need to specify a tolerance. I plan to improve it because often the gears have too many teeth to be practical. To fix this I need to factor the driven and driving gears. Some solutions may take 3 or more gears to achieve the correct ratio without the number of teeth on any gear being to large. I really need to put have a parameter to limit solutions. I need to add a parameter for if the final gear is turning the same direction as the initial gear. I also need to have a parameter that limits the number of teeth on a gear.


A while back drbitboy challenged me with finding solution to the size of a box by factoring. I had a python program already.


I think this is a more practical problem.

L D[AR2 said:

I was thinking of Schrödinger's cat, but that's the wrong concept for this puzzle.

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This came to my mind.