
Puzzle #3 – Solution
June 19, 2007This post is written only for completeness reasons. The answer to puzzle #3 was almost immediately given in the comments. I will just repeat it here.
The important observations are that XOR (X,X) = 0 and that XOR(X,0) = X The solution is therefore:
Operation Result --------------------------------- X = XOR(,) X^Y,Y Y = XOR(,) X^Y,X^Y^Y = X X = XOR(,) X^X^Y = Y,X done!