Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!noao!terak!doug
From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle,net.math
Subject: Re: Polar Bear Problem Sequel  **SPOILER**
Message-ID: <821@terak.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 00:24:49 EST
Article-I.D.: terak.821
Posted: Fri Oct 25 00:24:49 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:07:10 EST
References: <361@proper.UUCP> <606@ecsvax.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Lines: 11
Xref: watmath net.puzzle:1089 net.math:2437

> > (1) From how many points on Earth (assuming it's spherical, etc.)
> > 	 can you make exactly these moves, i.e., walk 1 mile south, 1
> > 	 mile west, 1 mile north, and be back where you started?
> > 
> >             (2) Describe all of them.

>   There is an infinite number of them, all close to the S pole.

All but one: the North Pole is quite a distance from the South pole.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug