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ENGLISH - Caprichos Daneses

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The game of CON-TAC-TIX® occurred to Piet Hein while<br />

he was contemplating the famous four-colour theorem<br />

of topology. The theorem, as yet unproved, is that four<br />

colours are sufficient to make any map so that no two<br />

countries of the same colour have a common boundary .<br />

Piet Hein introduced the game in 1942 at the Niels Bohr<br />

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