On 2014-05-01, Terry Reedy wrote: > 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.
OK, change bear to bird & the question to "What kind of bird is it?" -- There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money either. --- Robert Graves -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
