Mathematical Christmas Tree
Stimulated by Johann Weilharter (@jweilharter) and Clifford Pickover (@pickover) I wrote some Mathematica code to solve the following Christmas tree puzzle :
Let us define the Xmas tree property :
How many solutions exist?
Since solutions can be rotated we only keep solutions with "ordered corner values".
How many solutions with ordered corner values exist?
Since numbers on the inner part of the edges may be flipped, we remove solutions which are duplicated in this sense.
How many solutions do we have now?
What are all these solution?
What are permissible corner number combinations?
Which (equal) sums for the triangle sides allow solution s?
Which corners combinations allow how many essentially different solutions?