Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!swami From: swami@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: Yet another Polar Bear Problem Message-ID: <21500019@uiucdcsb> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.21500019 Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:22:38 EST References: <21500018@uiucdcsb> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:uiucdcsb:21500018:uiucdcsb:21500019:000:428 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!swami Oct 31 10:16:00 1985 > How many points are there such that you can walk one mile south, one mile > north, one mile east, and be back at the starting point? describe all of > them. well, let me answer it myself (sigh) you start anywhere a mile north of the south pole, walk south to the pole, turn the appropriate angle (why not?), walk a mile north, then east to get back where you started. swami maybe i should have tried net.jokes instead :-)