On 4/30/2014 7:46 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
It also works if your starting point is (precisely) the north pole. I
believe that's the canonical answer to the riddle, since there are no
bears in Antarctica.
For the most part, there are no bears within a mile of the North Pole
either. "they are rare north of 88°" (ie, 140 miles from pole).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bears
They mostly hunt in or near open water, near the coastlines.
I find it amusing that someone noticed and posted an alternate,
non-canonical solution. How might a bear be near the south pole? As
long as we are being creative, suppose some jokester mounts a near
life-size stuffed black bear, made of cold-tolerant artificial
materials, near but not at the South Pole. The intent is to give fright
to naive newcomers. Someone walking in a radius 1/2pi circle about the
pole might easily see it.
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