How To Solve The Doubling Puzzle?

This puzzle surprisingly has many real-life applications!

Hemanth
Street Science
Published in
6 min readJan 10, 2022

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The Doubling Puzzle: On the left two unhappy sheep stand before one patch of grass. Ten days later, the two sheep seem happy and are standing before two patches of grass.
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The doubling puzzle has been popular among math enthusiasts for centuries now. In this article, I will be presenting a simplified version of this puzzle. It is by no means a very hard puzzle, but it does require critical and coordinated thinking to solve.

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