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divisions coming out even. That means that in the problem as stated, any multiple of 15,625 may be added to the pile, and it will satisfy the problem conditions. That also means that the number of coconuts in the original pile is smaller than 15,625, else subtracting 15,625 will yield a smaller solution. But the number in the original pile is not trivially small, like 5 or 10 (that is why this is a hard problem) – it may be in the hundreds or thousands. Unlike trial and error in the case of guessing a polynomial root, trial and error for a Diophantine root will not result in any obvious convergence. There is no simple way of estimating what the solution will be.
450:. According to Gardner, Williams had modified an older problem to make it more confounding. In the older version there is a coconut for the monkey on the final division; in Williams's version the final division in the morning comes out even. But the available historical evidence does not indicate which versions Williams had access to. Gardner once told his son Jim that it was his favorite problem. He said that the Monkey and the Coconuts is "probably the most worked on and least often solved" Diophantine puzzle. Since that time the Williams version of the problem has become a staple of 6678:=0, so the initial pile contains -4 coconuts. This works because after tossing one positive coconut to the monkey, there are -5 coconuts in the pile. After division, there remain -4 coconuts. No matter how many such divisions are done, the remaining pile will contain -4 coconuts. This is a mathematical anomaly called a "fixed point". Only a few problems have such a point, but when there is one, it makes the problem much easier to solve. All solutions to the problem are multiples of 5 added to or subtracted from the fixed point. 617: 1054:
fifths such that each blue coconut is in a different fifth; then he takes the fifth with no blue coconut, gives one of his coconuts to the monkey, and puts the other four fifths (including all four blue coconuts) back together. Each sailor does the same. During the final division in the morning, the blue coconuts are left on the side, belonging to no one. Since the whole pile was evenly divided 5 times in the night, it must have contained 5 coconuts: 4 blue coconuts and 3121 ordinary coconuts.
1005: 66: 25: 357:, a historian of puzzles, traces a series of less plausibly related problems through the middle ages, with a few references as far back as the Babylonian empire circa 1700 BC. They involve the general theme of adding or subtracting fractions of a pile or specific numbers of discrete objects and asking how many there could have been in the beginning. The next reference to a similar problem is in 1068:: A man wills 17 horses to his three sons, specifying that the eldest son gets half, the next son one-third, and the youngest son, one-ninth of the animals. The sons are confounded, so they consult a wise horse trader. He says, "here, borrow my horse." The sons duly divide the horses, discovering that all the divisions come out even, with one horse left over, which they return to the trader. 168: 1040:)+1. If only one sailor woke up in the night, then 5/4(20)+1 = 26 works for the minimum number of coconuts in the original pile. But if two sailors woke up, 26 is not divisible by 4, so the morning pile must be some multiple of 20 that yields a pile divisible by 4 before the last sailor wakes up. It so happens that 3*20=60 works for two sailors: applying the recursion formula for 380:'s diaries in 1888: it involves a pile of nuts on a table serially divided by four brothers, each time with remainder of one given to a monkey, and the final division coming out even. The problem never appeared in any of Carroll's published works, though from other references it appears the problem was in circulation in 1888. An almost identical problem appeared in 1045:
obtuse, because in order to accommodate 4 sailors awakening, the morning pile must be some multiple of 60: if one is persistent, it may be discovered that 17*60=1020 does the trick and the minimum number in the original pile would be 2496. A last iteration on 2496 for 5 sailors awakening, i.e. 5/4(2496)+1 brings the original pile to 3121 coconuts.
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The Euclidean algorithm is quite tedious but a general methodology for solving rational equations ax+by=c requiring integral answers. From (2) above, it is evident that 1024 (2) and 15625 (5) are relatively prime and therefore their GCD is 1, but we need the reduction equations for back substitution
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is the study of equations with rational coefficients requiring integer solutions. In Diophantine problems, there are fewer equations than unknowns. The "extra" information required to solve the equations is the condition that the solutions be integers. Any solution must satisfy all equations. Some
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twice yields 96 as the smallest number of coconuts in the original pile. 96 is divisible by 4 once more, so for 3 sailors awakening, the pile could have been 121 coconuts. But 121 is not divisible by 4, so for 4 sailors awakening, one needs to make another leap. At this point, the analogy becomes
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By and by each of the five men woke up and did the same thing, one after the other: each one taking a fifth of the coconuts that were in the pile when he woke up, and having one left over for the monkey. In the morning they divided what coconuts were left, and they came out in five equal shares. Of
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Other variants in which the number of men or the remainders vary between divisions, are generally outside the class of problems associated with the monkey and the coconuts, though these similarly reduce to linear Diophantine equations in two variables. Their solutions yield to the same techniques
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The search space can be reduced by a series of increasingly larger factors by observing the structure of the problem so that a bit of trial and error finds the solution. The search space is much smaller if one starts with the number of coconuts received by each man in the morning division, because
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Problems ask for either the initial or terminal quantity. Stated or implied is the smallest positive number that could be a solution. There are two unknowns in such problems, the initial number and the terminal number, but only one equation which is an algebraic reduction of an expression for the
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The monkey and the coconuts is the best known representative of a class of puzzle problems requiring integer solutions structured as recursive division or fractionating of some discretely divisible quantity, with or without remainders, and a final division into some number of equal parts, possibly
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Before entering upon a solution to the problem, a couple of things may be noted. If there were no remainders, given there are 6 divisions of 5, 5=15,625 coconuts must be in the pile; on the 6th and last division, each sailor receives 1024 coconuts. No smaller positive number will result in all 6
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There is a pile of coconuts, owned by five men. One man divides the pile into five equal piles, giving the one left over coconut to a passing monkey, and takes away his own share. The second man then repeats the procedure, dividing the remaining pile into five and taking away his share, as do the
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Another device is to use extra objects to clarify the division process. Suppose that in the evening we add four blue coconuts to the pile. Then the first sailor to wake up will find the pile to be evenly divisible by five, instead of having one coconut left over. The sailor divides the pile into
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A simple succinct solution can be obtained by directly utilizing the recursive structure of the problem: There were five divisions of the coconuts into fifths, each time with one left over (putting aside the final division in the morning). The pile remaining after each division must contain an
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So if we began in modulo class –4 nuts then we will remain in modulo class –4. Since ultimately we have to divide the pile 5 times or 5^5, the original pile was 5^5 – 4 = 3121 coconuts. The remainder of 1020 coconuts conveniently divides evenly by 5 in the morning. This solution essentially
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The original pile of coconuts will be divided by 5 a total of 5 times with a remainder of 1, not considering the last division in the morning. Let N = number of coconuts in the original pile. Each division must leave the number of nuts in the same congruence class (mod 5). So,
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are also 4, etc. There are 5 divisions; the first four must leave an odd number base 5 in the pile for the next division, but the last division must leave an even number base 5 so the morning division will come out even (in 5s). So there are four 4s in N following a LSD of 1:
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relation between them. Common to the class is the nature of the resulting equation, which is a linear Diophantine equation in two unknowns. Most members of the class are determinate, but some are not (the monkey and the coconuts is one of the latter). Familiar
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Since the next sailor is going to do the same thing on N', the least significant digit of N' becomes 0 after tossing one to the monkey, and the LSD of S' must be 4 for the same reason; the next digit of N' must also be 4. So now it looks like:
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Another example: "I have a whole number of pounds of cement, I know not how many, but after addition of a ninth and an eleventh, it was partitioned into 3 sacks, each with a whole number of pounds. How many pounds of cement did I have?"
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third, fourth, and fifth, each of them finding one coconut left over when dividing the pile by five, and giving it to a monkey. Finally, the group divide the remaining coconuts into five equal piles: this time no coconuts are left over.
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The alternate form also had two endings, when the morning division comes out even, and when there is one nut left over for the monkey. When the morning division comes out even, the general solution reduces via a similar derivation to:
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to be an integer, the RHS of the equation must be an integral multiple of 1024; that property will be unaltered by factoring out as many multiples of 1024 as possible from the RHS. Reducing both sides by multiples of 1024,
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During the night, one man woke up, and decided to take his share early. So he divided the coconuts in five piles. He had one coconut left over, and he gave that to the monkey. Then he hid his pile and put the rest back
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is the number received by each sailor on the final division in the morning. This is only trivially different than the equation above for the predecessor problem, and solvability is guaranteed by the same reasoning.
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first studied problems requiring integer solutions in the 3rd century CE. The Euclidean algorithm for greatest common divisor which underlies the solution of such problems was discovered by the Greek geometer
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with a remainder. The problem is so well known that the entire class is often referred to broadly as "monkey and coconut type problems", though most are not closely related to the problem.
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Other post-Williams variants which specify different remainders including positive ones (i.e. the monkey adds coconuts to the pile), have been treated in the literature. The solution is:
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A simple solution appears when the divisions and subtractions are performed in base 5. Consider the subtraction, when the first sailor takes his share (and the monkey's). Let n
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be the number of coconuts received by each sailor after the final division into 5 equal shares in the morning. Then the number of coconuts left before the morning division is
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Antonick (2013): "I then asked Jim if his father had a favorite puzzle, and he answered almost immediately: 'The monkeys and the coconuts. He was quite fond of that one.'"
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Williams had not included an answer in the story. The magazine was inundated by more than 2,000 letters pleading for an answer to the problem. The
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Since that number must be an integer and 1024 is relatively prime to 3125, N+4 must be a multiple of 3125. The smallest such multiple is 3125 
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is a parameter than can be any integer. The problem is not intended to be solved by trial-and-error; there are deterministic methods for solving (
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The first step is to obtain an algebraic expansion of the recurrence relation corresponding to each sailor's transformation of the pile,
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S. Singh and D. Bhattacharya, “On Dividing Coconuts: A Linear Diophantine Problem,” The College Mathematics Journal, May 1997, pp. 203–4
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In some earlier alternate forms of the problem, the divisions came out even, and nuts (or items) were allocated from the remaining pile
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Kirchner, Roger B. "The Generalized Coconut Problem," The American Mathematical Monthly 67, no. 6 (1960): 516-19. doi:10.2307/2309167.
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A straightforward numeric analysis goes like this: If N is the initial number, each of 5 sailors transitions the original pile thus:
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Pappas, T. "The Monkey and the Coconuts." The Joy of Mathematics. San Carlos, CA: Wide World Publ./Tetra, pp. 226-227 and 234, 1989.
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Alternately, one may use a continued fraction, whose construction is based on the Euclidean algorithm. The continued fraction for
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Gardner points out that this equation is "much too difficult to solve by trial and error," but presents a solution he credits to
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course each one must have known there were coconuts missing; but each one was guilty as the others, so they didn't say anything.
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Underwood, R. S., and Robert E. Moritz. "3242." The American Mathematical Monthly 35, no. 1 (1928): 47-48. doi:10.2307/2298601.
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Other variants, including the putative predecessor problem, have related general solutions for an arbitrary number of sailors.
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The device of using additional objects to aid in conceptualizing a division appeared as far back as 1912 in a solution due to
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Numerous solutions starting as early as 1928 have been published both for the original problem and Williams modification.
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Diophantine equations have no solution, some have one or a finite number, and others have infinitely many solutions.
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is a parameter that can be any integer. The nature of the equation and the method of its solution do not depend on
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is the number of coconuts each sailor receives in the final division in the morning, the pile in the morning is 5
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this yields 15,621 as the smallest positive number of coconuts for the pre-William's version of the problem.
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integral number of coconuts. If there were only one such division, then it is readily apparent that 5 
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Numerous variants which vary the number of sailors, monkeys, or coconuts have appeared in the literature.
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Five men and a monkey were shipwrecked on an island. They spent the first day gathering coconuts for food.
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1 = –81·1024 + 313·(15625 – 15·1024) = 313·15625 – 4776·1024 (substitute for 265 from (a) and combine)
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modified an older problem and included it in a story, "Coconuts", in the October 9, 1926, issue of the
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Gardner gives an equivalent but rather cryptic formulation by inexplicably choosing the non-canonical
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asked: Find a number which leaves the remainders 2, 3 and 2 when divided by 3, 5 and 7, respectively.
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1 = –81·(1024 – 3·265) + 70·265 = –81·1024 + 313·265 (substitute for 229 from (b) and combine)
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But the same reasoning again applies to N' as applied to N, so the next digit of N' is 4, so s
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The monkey and the coconuts reduces to a two-variable linear Diophantine equation of the form
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Trial and error fails to solve Williams's version, so a more systematic approach is needed.
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1 = –11·229 + 70·(265 – 1·229) = –81·229 + 70·265 (substitute for 36 from (c) and combine)
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Kirchner, R. B. "The Generalized Coconut Problem." Amer. Math. Monthly 67, 516-519, 1960.
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The origin of the class of such problems has been attributed to the Indian mathematician
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1 = 10 – 3(13–1·10) = 4·10 – 3·13 (reorder (g), substitute for 3 from (f) and combine)
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1 = 4·36 – 11·(229 – 6·36) = –11·229 + 70*36 (substitute for 13 from (d) and combine)
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This is the smallest positive number that satisfies the conditions of the problem.
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is even, then refactoring the expression in a way that obscures the periodicity:
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The RHS must still be a multiple of 1024; since 53 is relatively prime to 1024, 5
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When the morning division results in a nut left over, the general solution is:
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The first description of the problem in close to its modern wording appears in
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The problem became notorious when American novelist and short story writer
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the number left in the morning. Expanding the recurrence by substituting
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This Diophantine equation has a solution which follows directly from the
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When the morning division also has a remainder of one, the solution is:
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Repeating this transition 5 times gives the number left in the morning:
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divisions, it can be proven that the remaining pile is divisible by
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recommends for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.
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that number is much smaller than the number in the original pile.
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may be taken to be zero to obtain the lowest positive answer, so
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appeared in Chinese literature as early as the first century CE.
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is the remainder after each division (or number of monkeys) and
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The equation is a linear Diophantine equation in two variables,
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that originated in a short story involving five sailors and a
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is an arbitrary parameter that can have any integral value.
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The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around
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Chronology of Recreational Mathematics by David Singmaster
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by Bézout's identity. This equation can be restated as:
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is the number left in the morning which is a multiple of
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10 = 3·3 + 1 (g) (remainder 1 is GCD of 15625 and 1024)
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The equivalent Diophantine equation for this version is:
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The digit subtracted from 0 base 5 to yield 1 is 4, so s
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of the original pile satisfies the Diophantine equation
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First, obtain successive remainders until GCD remains:
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N => 4(N–1)/5 or equivalently, N => 4(N+4)/5 – 4.
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is negative if the monkeys add coconuts to the pile).
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division. In these forms, the recursion relation is:
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When the number of sailors is a parameter, let it be
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Another way of thinking about it is that in order for
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One can take both sides of (1) above modulo 1024, so
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reverses how the problem was (probably) constructed.
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and applied it to solution of Diophantine equations.
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satisfies the constraints of the problem statement.
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for which both N and F are non-negative is 2569, so
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For 1365:If two divisions are done, a multiple of 5  6859:{\displaystyle N=(1+m\cdot k)\cdot m^{m}-(m-1)} 5740:{\displaystyle n_{i}={\frac {m-1}{m}}n_{i-1}-1} 4585:{\displaystyle (m-1)^{m}\cdot r\equiv -1\mod m} 4303:The equation must be transformed into the form 1392:A formal way of stating the above argument is: 6496: 5523:{\displaystyle 117,440,505+k\cdot 134,217,728} 4664:Bézout's identity gives the periodic solution 1531:The Diophantine equation and forms of solution 1154:=4. But since S is (N-1)/5, and dividing by 5 1008:Williams's version, with no coconuts left over 6492: 6490: 6488: 6486: 6484: 6482: 4729:in the Diophantine equation and rearranging: 7106:, a copy of the story as it appeared in the 7022:Martin Gardner’s The Monkey and the Coconuts 4406:{\displaystyle (m-1)^{m}\cdot r-m\cdot s=-1} 2299:{\displaystyle N=N_{0}+15625\cdot 2569=3121} 620:Original version, with one coconut left over 6506:. W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 3–9. 250:on a desert island who divide up a pile of 53:Learn how and when to remove these messages 6642: 6479: 6472: 6470: 5098:Here is a table of the positive solutions 2650:{\displaystyle n_{i\rightarrow 0}\equiv N} 2351:{\displaystyle F=F_{0}+1024\cdot 2569=204} 2232:) = (-4776·8404, -313*8404); the smallest 2087:+4=1024 and F=204. Substituting into (1) 1843:{\displaystyle 1024N=15625F+8404\mod 1024} 1795: 1333:   => 1024(N+4)/3125 – 4 527:, the equation is solvable if and only if 365:, 1725. In the realm of pure mathematics, 7048:Wide World Publishing, January 23, 1993, 5016:In the William's version of the problem, 4578: 4577: 2461: 2065:{\displaystyle 0=53\cdot (5F+4)\mod 1024} 2058: 2057: 1996: 1995: 1946: 1945: 1836: 1835: 1649:) is a solution of 1024x–15625y=1, then N 223:Learn how and when to remove this message 205:Learn how and when to remove this message 189:, without removing the technical details. 150:Learn how and when to remove this message 6554:KIRKUS REVIEW of The Mathematical Magpie 5461:{\displaystyle 823,537+k\cdot 5,764,801} 4135:to be an integer, it is sufficient that 1584:is the original number of coconuts, and 1330:   => 256(N+4)/625 – 4 1003: 615: 6991:is a parameter than can be any integer. 6467: 5605:{\displaystyle N=-(m-1)+k\cdot m^{m+1}} 4635:is a polynomial with monomial basis in 1327:   => 64(N+4)/125 – 4 1304: 1166:=4. So now the subtraction looks like: 958:to get the smallest positive solution: 611: 440:featured the problem in his April 1958 7115: 5405:{\displaystyle 233,275+k\cdot 279,936} 4344:whose solutions are formulaic. Hence: 2657:, the number originally gathered, and 2165: 1444:{\displaystyle N\equiv 4/5\cdot (N-1)} 1324:   => 16(N+4)/25 – 4 363:Récréations mathématiques et physiques 261: 2536:being the number left by the sailor: 2361: 187:make it understandable to non-experts 5536:Other variants and general solutions 1522:(mod 5) (–4 is the congruence class) 1344: 161: 88:adding citations to reliable sources 59: 18: 5801:{\displaystyle N=-m+k\cdot m^{m+1}} 3166:polynomial in brackets of the form 2003:{\displaystyle 0=265F+212\mod 1024} 1071: 999: 850:; and so on. We find that the size 466:Mathematical Association of America 13: 7098:Monkeys and Coconuts – Numberphile 5355:{\displaystyle 3121+k\cdot 15,625} 2683:{\displaystyle n_{i\rightarrow m}} 2179:in terms of these two quantities: 888:{\displaystyle 1024N=15625F+11529} 14: 7154: 7091: 6741:{\displaystyle r_{0}=-1+1\cdot m} 6423:and present no new difficulties. 1626:{\displaystyle 1024N-15625F=8404} 1569:{\displaystyle 1024N=15625F+8404} 266:The problem can be expressed as: 34:This article has multiple issues. 6691:for an exposition of the method. 6503:The Colossal Book of Mathematics 4702:{\displaystyle r=r_{0}+k\cdot m} 1255:as well. So now it looks like: 1064:A related device appears in the 1048: 1015: 166: 64: 23: 6994: 6694: 6681: 6668: 6633: 6624: 6615: 6606: 6597: 6582: 5311:{\displaystyle 765+k\cdot 1024} 4573: 3275:{\displaystyle (1-x^{m})/(1-x)} 3216:{\displaystyle x^{m-1}+...+x+1} 2053: 1991: 1941: 1831: 1247:(which is now 4) leaves 3, so s 950:is a solution. We add 15625 to 75:needs additional citations for 42:or discuss these issues on the 6956: 6944: 6925: 6901: 6853: 6841: 6822: 6804: 6658:School Science and Mathematics 6591:can be found if necessary via 6573: 6559: 6547: 6538: 6529: 6520: 6456: 6209: 6197: 5574: 5562: 5158:is any non-negative integer): 4783: 4771: 4549: 4536: 4513: 4501: 4367: 4354: 4278: 4265: 4181: 4168: 4016: 4004: 3989: 3976: 3839: 3826: 3804: 3792: 3619: 3606: 3584: 3572: 3474: 3453: 3421: 3399: 3269: 3257: 3249: 3230: 3090: 3068: 2914: 2892: 2868: 2846: 2672: 2633: 2602: 2577: 2140: 2121: 2050: 2035: 1938: 1920: 1914: 1890: 1438: 1426: 989:{\displaystyle N=15621,F=1023} 798: 765: 694: 679: 1: 6450: 1484:{\displaystyle 5N\equiv 4N-4} 99:"The monkey and the coconuts" 5273:{\displaystyle 25+k\cdot 81} 4953:is any integer. For a given 4203:be an integer, so let it be 1066:17-animal inheritance puzzle 474: 7: 6654:"Problem Department (#288)" 6433:Archimedes's cattle problem 6426: 6058:is even. For example, when 5235:{\displaystyle 11+k\cdot 8} 4337:{\displaystyle ax+by=\pm 1} 2962:Factoring the latter term, 599:) in this case (see text). 236:The monkey and the coconuts 10: 7159: 7061:Monkey and Coconut Problem 7010: 2394:=313. The least value of 2185:15625 = 15·1024 + 265 (a) 1515:{\displaystyle N\equiv -4} 1251:must be 4, and therefore n 371:continued fraction theorem 294: 7069:Fadiman, Clifton (1962). 4993:will be chosen such that 943:{\displaystyle N=-4,F=-1} 442:Mathematical Games column 329:Chinese remainder theorem 303:in chapter VI, § 131 7123:Recreational mathematics 7032:Pleacher, David (2005). 6332:{\displaystyle r_{0}=-1} 6113:{\displaystyle r_{0}=-1} 5978:{\displaystyle r_{0}=-1} 4973:, the smallest positive 4906:{\displaystyle r_{0}=-1} 452:recreational mathematics 337:Diophantus of Alexandria 256:recreational mathematics 7072:The Mathematical Magpie 6674:A special case is when 6567:The Mathematical Magpie 6276:{\displaystyle r_{0}=1} 6031:{\displaystyle r_{0}=1} 4850:{\displaystyle r_{0}=1} 4661:is even is a solution. 2743:{\displaystyle n_{i-1}} 2188:1024 = 3·265 + 229 (b) 1796:A reductionist approach 513:greatest common divisor 461:The Mathematical Magpie 7075:, Simon & Schuster 6985: 6963: 6882: 6860: 6785: 6762: 6742: 6413: 6393: 6373: 6353: 6333: 6297: 6277: 6241: 6140: 6114: 6078: 6052: 6032: 5999: 5979: 5940: 5857: 5831: 5802: 5741: 5661: 5635: 5606: 5524: 5462: 5406: 5356: 5312: 5274: 5236: 5198: 5177: 5152: 5132: 5112: 5077: 5057: 5030: 5007: 4987: 4967: 4947: 4927: 4907: 4871: 4851: 4815: 4723: 4709:, so substituting for 4703: 4586: 4520: 4488: 4462: 4439: 4407: 4338: 4294: 4217: 4197: 4129: 4106: 4086: 4066: 4046: 4023: 3915: 3895: 3865: 3715: 3695: 3675: 3645: 3491: 3276: 3217: 3153: 2953: 2763: 2744: 2711: 2684: 2651: 2609: 2530: 2500: 2480: 2462:A generalized solution 2448: 2352: 2300: 2246: 2156: 2066: 2004: 1954: 1867: 1844: 1786: 1762: 1627: 1570: 1516: 1485: 1445: 1009: 990: 944: 889: 844: 740: 654: 621: 601: 369:in 1770 expounded his 7138:Diophantine equations 7133:Mathematical problems 7108:Saturday Evening Post 6986: 6964: 6883: 6861: 6786: 6763: 6743: 6439:Fermat's Last Theorem 6414: 6394: 6374: 6354: 6334: 6298: 6278: 6242: 6141: 6115: 6079: 6053: 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6704: 6403: 6383: 6363: 6343: 6307: 6287: 6254: 6156: 6124: 6088: 6062: 6042: 6009: 5989: 5953: 5873: 5841: 5815: 5758: 5681: 5645: 5619: 5550: 5478: 5422: 5372: 5328: 5290: 5252: 5214: 5188: 5167: 5142: 5122: 5102: 5067: 5040: 5020: 4997: 4977: 4957: 4937: 4917: 4881: 4861: 4828: 4736: 4713: 4668: 4599:–1) is a polynomial 4533: 4498: 4472: 4452: 4417: 4351: 4307: 4230: 4207: 4139: 4119: 4096: 4076: 4056: 4036: 3928: 3905: 3878: 3728: 3705: 3685: 3658: 3507: 3289: 3227: 3170: 2969: 2776: 2753: 2721: 2694: 2661: 2622: 2543: 2513: 2490: 2470: 2405: 2311: 2259: 2236: 2194:229 = 6·36 + 13 (d) 2094: 2020: 1970: 1881: 1857: 1807: 1776: 1680: 1599: 1542: 1497: 1457: 1403: 1321:N => 4(N+4)/5 – 4 1305:A numerical approach 962: 910: 861: 750: 664: 653:{\displaystyle 5F+1} 635: 612:The original version 581:) is a solution and 498:, or more generally, 485:Diophantine analysis 325:Ganita-sara-sangraha 244:Diophantine analysis 84:improve this article 7058:Wolfram Mathworld: 6139:{\displaystyle k=1} 6077:{\displaystyle m=3} 5856:{\displaystyle k=1} 5830:{\displaystyle m=4} 5660:{\displaystyle k=1} 5634:{\displaystyle m=5} 4487:{\displaystyle m-1} 2197:36 = 2·13 + 10 (e) 2166:Euclidean algorithm 1639:Euclidean algorithm 1143:) 1 (N' 447:Scientific American 262:General description 240:mathematical puzzle 16:Mathematical puzzle 7029::, October 7, 2013 7025:in Numberplay The 6981: 6959: 6878: 6856: 6781: 6758: 6738: 6593:Euclid's algorithm 6445:Cannonball problem 6409: 6389: 6369: 6349: 6329: 6293: 6273: 6237: 6136: 6110: 6074: 6048: 6028: 5995: 5975: 5936: 5853: 5827: 5811:For example, when 5798: 5737: 5657: 5631: 5602: 5520: 5458: 5402: 5352: 5308: 5270: 5232: 5194: 5173: 5148: 5128: 5118:for the first few 5108: 5073: 5053: 5026: 5003: 4983: 4963: 4943: 4923: 4903: 4867: 4847: 4811: 4719: 4699: 4582: 4516: 4484: 4458: 4435: 4403: 4334: 4290: 4213: 4193: 4125: 4102: 4082: 4062: 4042: 4019: 3911: 3891: 3861: 3711: 3691: 3671: 3641: 3487: 3272: 3213: 3149: 2949: 2759: 2740: 2707: 2680: 2647: 2605: 2526: 2496: 2476: 2444: 2362:Continued fraction 2348: 2296: 2242: 2200:13 = 1·10 + 3 (f) 2152: 2062: 2000: 1950: 1863: 1840: 1782: 1758: 1753: 1623: 1566: 1512: 1481: 1441: 1243:Borrowing 1 from n 1010: 986: 940: 900:J. 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Whitehead 885: 840: 838: 820: 796: 778: 763: 736: 734: 716: 677: 650: 622: 464:, a book that the 458:'s 1962 anthology 386:Elementary Algebra 7084:Negative Coconuts 6984:{\displaystyle k} 6881:{\displaystyle m} 6784:{\displaystyle m} 6761:{\displaystyle m} 6544:Wolfram Mathworld 6412:{\displaystyle c} 6392:{\displaystyle k} 6372:{\displaystyle c} 6352:{\displaystyle m} 6296:{\displaystyle m} 6051:{\displaystyle m} 5998:{\displaystyle m} 5713: 5533: 5532: 5197:{\displaystyle N} 5176:{\displaystyle m} 5151:{\displaystyle k} 5131:{\displaystyle m} 5111:{\displaystyle N} 5076:{\displaystyle k} 5036:is 5 sailors, so 5029:{\displaystyle m} 5006:{\displaystyle N} 4986:{\displaystyle k} 4966:{\displaystyle m} 4946:{\displaystyle k} 4926:{\displaystyle m} 4870:{\displaystyle m} 4722:{\displaystyle r} 4461:{\displaystyle m} 4288: 4216:{\displaystyle r} 4191: 4128:{\displaystyle N} 4105:{\displaystyle m} 4085:{\displaystyle m} 4065:{\displaystyle F} 4045:{\displaystyle N} 3999: 3914:{\displaystyle N} 3859: 3764: 3714:{\displaystyle F} 3694:{\displaystyle m} 3639: 3544: 3472: 3418: 3374: 3326: 3136: 3087: 3054: 3006: 2942: 2911: 2865: 2813: 2762:{\displaystyle m} 2575: 2499:{\displaystyle m} 2479:{\displaystyle m} 2245:{\displaystyle t} 2138: 1866:{\displaystyle n} 1785:{\displaystyle t} 1345:Modulo congruence 837: 819: 795: 777: 762: 733: 715: 676: 525:Bézout's identity 393:Ben Ames Williams 233: 232: 225: 215: 214: 207: 160: 159: 152: 134: 57: 7150: 7005: 6998: 6992: 6990: 6988: 6987: 6982: 6968: 6966: 6965: 6960: 6940: 6939: 6887: 6885: 6884: 6879: 6865: 6863: 6862: 6857: 6837: 6836: 6791:odd,   6790: 6788: 6787: 6782: 6767: 6765: 6764: 6759: 6747: 6745: 6744: 6739: 6716: 6715: 6698: 6692: 6685: 6679: 6672: 6666: 6665: 6650:Norman H. 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