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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

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Einstein's Puzzle


Variations of this riddle appear on the net from time to time. It is sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein and it is claimed that 98% of the people are incapable of solving it. Some commentators suggest that Einstein created such puzzles not to test out intelligence but to get rid of all the students who wanted him as an advisor. It is not likely that there is any truth to these stories. Whereever this comes from, it is a nice riddle.

Let us assume that there are five houses of different colors next to each other on the same road. In each house lives a man of a different nationality. Every man has his favorite drink, his favorite brand of cigarettes, and keeps pets of a particular kind.


  1. The Englishman lives in the red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The green house is just to the left of the white one.
  5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
  6. The Pall Mall smoker keeps birds.
  7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
  8. The man in the center house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The Blend smoker has a neighbor who keeps cats.
  11. The man who smokes Blue Masters drinks bier.
  12. The man who keeps horses lives next to the Dunhill smoker.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The Blend smoker has a neighbor who drinks water.
The question to be answered is: Who keeps fish?
This is a simple constraint satisfaction problem.  Let us start by defining a regular language that consists of all the possible solutions for the puzzle. We need five basic variables: Color of the house, Nationality of the owner, and his favorite Drink, Cigarette, and Pet. We define each variable as the language of the possible values of the variable.
define Color [blue | green | red | white | yellow];
define Nationality [Dane | Englishman | German | Swede | Norwegian];
style="font-weight: bold;"> define Drink [bier | coffee | milk |tea | water];
define Cigarette [Blend | BlueMaster | Dunhill | PallMall | Prince];
define Pet [birds | cats | dogs | fish | horses];
The next concept to define is that of a House. Let us construe it as a concatenation of the five terms defined above:
defineHouse[Color Nationality Drink Cigarette Pet];
With five variables each taking one of five possible values, this gives quite a number of possible households, 5x5x5x5x5 = 3125, to be exact. A road with five houses next to each other, House^5, provides an astronomical number of possible combinations of colors, nationalities, drinks, cigarettes and pets.
To solve Einstein's puzzle, we represent each of the fifteen constraints as a regular language and intersect these languages with the initial set of all possibilities. If all goes well, at the end we will know who keeps fish. For example, we can interpret The Englishman lives in the red house. as $[red Englishman]. This constraint is trivial to encode because in our representation of a house, the color and the nationality are adjacent. The second costraint, The Swede keeps dogs could be represented as $[Swede Drink Cigarette dogs] but we will choose a less verbose formulation, $[Swede ~$Pet dogs], that does not explicitly list the variables that separate Nationality and Pet. The fifteen constraints are shown below.
defineC1$[red Englishman];
The Englishman lives in the red house.
defineC2$[Swede ~$Pet dogs];
The Swede keeps dogs.
defineC3$[Dane tea];
The Dane drinks tea.
defineC4$[green ~$Color white];
The green house is just to the left of the white one.
defineC5$[green ~$Drink coffee];
The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
defineC6$[PallMall birds];
The Pall Mall smoker keeps birds.
defineC7$[yellow ~$Cigarette Dunhill];
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
defineC8[House^2 ~$Drink milk ~$Drink House^2];
The man in the center house drinks milk.
defineC9[? Norwegian ?*];
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
defineC10$[Blend ? ~$Pet cats | cats ~$Cigarette Blend];
The Blend smoker has a neighbor who keeps cats.
defineC11$[horses ~$Cigarette Dunhill | Dunhill ? ~$Pet horses];
The man who keeps horses lives next to the Dunhill smoker.
defineC12$[bier BlueMaster];
The man who smokes Blue Masters drinks bier.
defineC13$[German ~$Cigarette Prince];
The German smokes Prince.
defineC14$[Norwegian ~$Color blue | blue ? ~$Nationality Norwegian];
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
defineC15$[Blend ~$Drink water | water ? ~$Cigarette Blend];
The Blend smoker has a neighbor who drinks water.
All that we need to do to solve the problem is to impose the constraints on the row of five houses by intersection. The solution below is almost correct.
defineSolution [House^5 & C1 & C2 & C3 &C4 & C5 &
                 C6 & C7 & C8 & C9 & C10 &
                 C11 & C12 & C13 & C14 & C15];
The result is a network with five paths. In four of the solutions nobody keeps fish and the German keeps the same kind of pet as someone else. We need one final constraint, presupposed by the question Who keeps fish?:
defineC16$fish;
There is someone who keeps fish.
With C16 added, only one solution remains. To make it easier to see, we compose the solution with the transducer that adds some prose around the pieces along the one remaining path:
defineDescribe[House -> "In the " ... .o.
       Color -> ... " house " .o.
       Nationality -> "the " ... " " .o.
       Drink -> "drinks "... ", " .o.
       Cigarette -> "smokes "... "s,\n and " .o.
       Pet -> "keeps " ... ".\n"] ;
We can now see the solution.
regex [Solution .o. Describe];
76 states, 75 arcs, 1 path.
xfst[2]: print lower-words
In the yellow house the Norwegian drinks water, smokes Dunhills,
  and keeps cats.
In the blue house the Dane drinks tea, smokes Blends,
  and keeps horses.
In the red house the Englishman drinks milk, smokes PallMalls,
  and keeps birds.
In the green house the German drinks coffee, smokes Princes,
  and keeps fish.
In the white house the Swede drinks bier, smokes BlueMasters,
  and keeps dogs.
In short, it's the German who keeps fish.

Walgreens Likely To Move Their Headquarters Away From The World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate: The U.S.A.

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Jobs, economic growth and tax revenue will likely be chased away if Walgreens decides to move their corporate headquarters due to the highest tax rate in the world in the U.S.A.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Expect Walgreen's (WAG_) to soon say whether the company will move its headquarters outside the U.S. in an effort cut its corporate tax rate. That expected color comes after a handful of large Walgreen's investors began pressing the company to consider a move to a lower-tax jurisdiction as part of its acquisition of European pharmacy giant Alliance Boots.

Walgreen's purchased 45% of Alliance Boots from private equity firm KKR in 2012 for $4 billion in cash and $2.7 billion in stock. The company also agreed to an option to buy the rest of Alliance Boots, in coming years, for $9.5 billion.

While Walgreen's didn't chose to use the first leg of the transaction to invert its ownership abroad for tax purposes, the second leg of the transaction is nearing and investors as prominent as Jana Partners are now pressing for such a move.

That has come to a boiling point in recent months, as operating performance at Walgreen's core business in the U.S. has stalled, and management publicly expressed no interest in a move to a lower-tax jurisdiction.

On a fourth quarter earnings call, Walgreen's CEO Gregory D. Wasson said, "[Just] to reiterate, as I said on the last call, we have no plans to do an inversion." In that earnings release, Walgreen's forecast its tax rate to be about 37.5%, while Alliance Boots would be around 20%.

Within weeks, shareholders such as Jana Partners then requested a meeting with management to express their frustration, as the Financial Times first reported.

Jana and other investors at the meeting pitched their views on the merit of an inversion and Walgreen's appears to have taken the message, Crain's Business Chicago noted in a report that speculated Walgreen's management might lose its grip of the company through the Alliance Boots deal.

At a Barclays analyst conference on April 30, Walgreen's management changed its tune on an inversion. Such a tax move is being considered, the company said.

"We're evaluating all of that. We are aware of all of the inversions that are happening and certainly all of that is being investigated in Part II," Walgreen's investor relations head Rick J. Hans said. "We've never been a proponent to pay more taxes than we have to. We try to optimize that. It creates value," he added, while noting that there could be costs and benefits to such a move.

Obvious costs would include increased public scrutiny of a move abroad, possible customer defections and government reaction, especially because the pharmacy benefits operations of Walgreen's are a recipient of Medicare and Medicaid-related drug prescription dollars. Benefits would include a tax rate that could drop as low as 20%, according to tax expert Robert Willens.

A part of Walgreen's changing commentary that hasn't been reported on is how quickly a decision may be made. Hans, the Walgreen's IR executive, said at the Barclays conference investors should expect a decision on the possible inversion by late summer or early fall, when the company files its annual proxy to shareholders.

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