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At age 10, Nob Yoshigahara won the grand prize in a newspaper competition with this puzzle:
Given a sack of sugar, an unbalanced scale, and two 5-pound weights, measure exactly 10 pounds of sugar.
At age 10, Nob Yoshigahara won the grand prize in a newspaper competition with this puzzle:
Given a sack of sugar, an unbalanced scale, and two 5-pound weights, measure exactly 10 pounds of sugar.
