Tuesday Puzzle

One solution

Alex Y

involves the rightmost matchstick, but I suspect this is not the one you are looking for. Let me know whether it is, and I will post that solution if it is not the one you are looking for.

Re: Tuesday Puzzle

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

II-I=I?

not the one

Dan Donaldson

Does not involve the right most stick. Interested in seeing your solution.

Not it

Dan Donaldson

Your solution would actually look like V-1=1. ;-)

Oh, well

Alex Y

It was quite a stretch, but take the rightmost, rotate it 90 degrees, move it to the far left, then move around to look at the sticks from the right end, and reading down you have:

1

<

=

11

Another solution

Alex Y

Move the leftmost matchstick 1/2 space to the right, giving you XII=I.

To understand this answer, you have to know the context of the problem. Someone asked Plato how to convert from units to dozens, and that is the true statement he wrote.

Okay, I might be stretching a bit here!

Re: Tuesday Puzzle

Lee Schierer McKean, PA

I think the root of the problem is the answer.

Without moving any match...

Bill Earl

The expression would evaluate as "TRUE" in many programming languages.

still not quite ;-)

;-)

Excellent

Alex Y

and good puzzle, Dan.

Re: Tuesday Puzzle

Jerry Glaser

Take the one vertical match next to the "V" and place it across the "V" to make it a zero. Then you have 01=1.

Answer

Dan Donaldson

As Lee said, the root of the problem is the answer. Here is a pic:

The square root of one is one