Measuring with Two Jugs

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This Demonstration shows a graphic solution of the problem of measuring out liters of a liquid using jugs of capacity and liters, with integers. The solution seeks the minimal number of times jugs are to be filled and emptied. So we are looking for a solution (in integers) of the Diophantine equation with minimal . Another method for solving the equation can use two rulers with lengths that are multiples of and . The problem cannot be solved if does not divide .

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2016)
Code from: Emmanuel Garces Medina
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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