Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pixel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!wjh12!pixel!vsh From: vsh@pixel.UUCP (vsh) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: *** The infamous PIRATE PROBLEM *** Message-ID: <34@pixel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:57:29 EST Article-I.D.: pixel.34 Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:57:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 11:05:27 EST References: <3187@think.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Pixel Systems Inc., Woburn, Mass. Lines: 14 > ... When each man > reaches his landmark, they each turn 90 degrees and proceed away from their > landmark ... Does it matter which way each turns (left vs. right, in vs. out, the same vs the opposite)? It must but you do not specify. (Consider two cases that differ only in the direction the pirate at the forest turns; the mid-point of the line segments cannot be the same!) -- Steve Harris | {allegra|ihnp4|cbosgd|ima|genrad|amd|harvard}!\ Pixel Systems Inc. | wjh12!pixel!vsh 300 Wildwood Street | Woburn, MA 01801 | 617-933-7735 x2314