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The monkey and the coconuts is a mathematical puzzle in the field of Diophantine analysis that originated in a magazine fictional short story involving five sailors and a monkey on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts; the problem is to find the number of coconuts in the original pile (fractional coconuts not allowed). The problem is notorious for its confounding difficulty to unsophisticated puzzle solvers, though with the proper mathematical approach, the solution is trivial. The problem has become a staple in recreational mathematics collections.

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  • The monkey and the coconuts is a mathematical puzzle in the field of Diophantine analysis that originated in a magazine fictional short story involving five sailors and a monkey on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts; the problem is to find the number of coconuts in the original pile (fractional coconuts not allowed). The problem is notorious for its confounding difficulty to unsophisticated puzzle solvers, though with the proper mathematical approach, the solution is trivial. The problem has become a staple in recreational mathematics collections. (en)
  • サルとココナッツ(英: the monkey and the coconuts)は、無人島に流れ着いた5人の水夫と1匹のサルがココナッツの山を分け合うという設定の数学パズルで、ディオファントス方程式に関連した問題である。 (ja)
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  • Original version, with one coconut left over (en)
  • Williams's version, with no coconuts left over (en)
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  • Smallest positive solutions to the monkey and the coconuts puzzle with cubical coconuts (en)
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  • monkey and coconuts 1 remaining.svg (en)
  • monkey and coconuts.svg (en)
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  • The monkey and the coconuts is a mathematical puzzle in the field of Diophantine analysis that originated in a magazine fictional short story involving five sailors and a monkey on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts; the problem is to find the number of coconuts in the original pile (fractional coconuts not allowed). The problem is notorious for its confounding difficulty to unsophisticated puzzle solvers, though with the proper mathematical approach, the solution is trivial. The problem has become a staple in recreational mathematics collections. (en)
  • サルとココナッツ(英: the monkey and the coconuts)は、無人島に流れ着いた5人の水夫と1匹のサルがココナッツの山を分け合うという設定の数学パズルで、ディオファントス方程式に関連した問題である。 (ja)
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  • サルとココナッツ (ja)
  • The monkey and the coconuts (en)
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