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Place numbers around a circle to make all length 3 binary strings. Question
There are 8 binary strings of length 3.
They are:
000
001
010
011
100
101
110
111
The goal of this puzzle is to arrange some 0’s and some 1’s around a circle (using as few 0’s and 1’s as possible) so that all 8 binary strings listed above appear at least once around the circle.
A binary string is considered to appear around the circle if the 3 numbers of the binary string are located in three consecutive clockwise positions around the circle.
In the example below, the binary string 110 appears starting at the 1 marked with a star. But the binary string 101 does not appear anywhere.
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