On Thu, 01 May 2014 21:57:57 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > 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?"
Arctic Turn is a valid answer for all locations :-) -- Pardon me, but do you know what it means to be TRULY ONE with your BOOTH! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
