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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:57:29 1985
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> ... 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!)

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