Template:Did you know nominations/No-three-in-line problem
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 11:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
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No-three-in-line problem
- ... that one can place 16 pawns on a chessboard so that no three pawns lie on the same line? Source: Dudeney 1917, solution to problem 317
- ALT1: ... that although all solved cases of the no-three-in-line problem have the answer 2n, mathematicians have conjectured that the general solution is approximately 1.814n? Source: Pegg 2005
- ALT2: ... that the no-three-in-line problem has been called "one of the oldest and most extensively studied geometric questions concerning lattice points"? Source: Brass, Moser, & Pach 2005
- ALT3: ... that the no-three-in-line problem in discrete geometry was first posed by Dudeney in 1900 as a puzzle about pawns on a chessboard? Source: Knuth 2008, answer to exercise 242
Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 19:34, 27 November 2021 (UTC).
- Freshly nominated GA, no other eligibility issues. Hook facts all check out. QPQ has been done. I personally find ALT0 and ALT3 strongest for a general audience (as a mathematician, I like ALT1). I get some Harvard referencing issues: FelsnerLiottaWismath2003 and Lefmann2008 are not cited anywhere? Could be cited or removed @David Eppstein? But that's nothing that would prevent DYK success.
—Kusma (talk) 21:50, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
- Unused refs removed — thanks for catching this. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:24, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Freshly nominated GA, no other eligibility issues. Hook facts all check out. QPQ has been done. I personally find ALT0 and ALT3 strongest for a general audience (as a mathematician, I like ALT1). I get some Harvard referencing issues: FelsnerLiottaWismath2003 and Lefmann2008 are not cited anywhere? Could be cited or removed @David Eppstein? But that's nothing that would prevent DYK success.
