Solving the water jugs problem by an integer sequence approach

DOI10.1080/0020739X.2011.562323MaRDI QIDQ3113888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yiu-Kwong Man

Publication date 26 January 2012

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2011.562323

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine equationsinteger sequence approachwater jugs problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08) Convergence and divergence of infinite limiting processes (40A99) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60) Education of mathematical modeling and applications of mathematics (97M99)

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