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From: dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes)
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Subject: Re: Polar Bear Problem Sequel (SPOILER)
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 09:23:57 EDT
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In article <361@proper.UUCP> judith@proper.UUCP (judith) writes:
>The old Polar Bear Problem:  You go somewhere, set up a tent, walk a mile
>south, walk a mile due west, shoot a bear.  Then you drag the bear a mile north
>to your tent & have him for dinner.  What color is the bear?
>
>The sequel:  (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.
>
I dunno about anyone else, but I though this was junior school
(?? ``3rd. grade'' is what you colonials say, I think) stuff:

1)	a) The North Pole
	b) anywhere 1 + 1/(2pi) miles from the south pole
i.e. an arbitrarily large number of places.

2)   What do you mean ``describe''?? Location?? Scenery??
I've never been to either place, but I suspect they're uniformly cold and icy.

			Dave Lukes.
			...!ukc!inset!dave

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