| From: Philip Mak <pmak@cs.stmarys.ca>
| Date: June 15, 1996 12:49 PM
| 
| On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Bad Mr. Frosty wrote:
| 
| > At 01:49 PM 6/15/96 -0300, Philip Mak wrote:
| > >This is easy... place the first 4 coins like this
| > >
| > >oo
| > >oo
| > >
| > >Then put the 5th coin on top of them in the middle and each coin
touches 
| > >all the others.
| > 
| > Sorry, that only works with square coins.
| 
| What do you mean it only works with square coins??? I mean you can
place 
| four circular coins like that so that they touch each other. Then you 
| just put the fifth one on top.
| OO
| OO (just imagine moving the coins closer together)

But the diagonal coins won't touch.  There will be a gap in the centre. 


-Neill