Chance News 23

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Forsooth

A Challenge

The Dartmouth mathematics department has a new home. The old mathematics building was called Shower Towers by the students suggested by this picture of one of its walls:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/forwiki/bradley2.jpg

For 40 years we walked by this wall and assumed that the tiles were randomly placed. One day, as we were walking by it, and our colleaugue John Finn said "I see they are not randomly placed." What did he see?

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