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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Polar paradox * SEMI-SPOILER *  (i.e., answer but no analysis)
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 22:17:13 EST
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[Naw, I don't really believe there's a line-eater.]             really believe there's a line-eater.                                    

> From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
> Message-ID: <2667@sunybcs.UUCP>
> Here's a new one: a practical joker tampered with the Great Explorer's
> gyrocompass, so it points 45 degrees off.  The Great Explorer thinks
> he's going due north on his way to the North Pole, but he's really going
> due northwest!
> 
> Will he reach the North Pole anyway?  (Geographers keep out of this one!)

Yes he will, and after travelling only a finite distance.  However, while
spiralling in towards the Pole, he will go around it an infinite number
of times.   (All this assumes we've shrunk him to a point, a sad fate
for a Great Explorer.)
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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