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
On 01/05/2014 21:57, 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,
On 2014-04-30, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Wow. It's amazing how writing something down, wrongly (I originally had
> north and south reversed), correcting it,
> letting some time pass (enough to post the message so one can be properly
> embarrassed ;), and then rereading it later
> can make somethi
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
2014-05-01 3:57 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico :
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, 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.
>
> Yeah but that's way too obvio
Terry Reedy wrote:
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.
The way things are going, the coastlin
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, 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.
Yeah but that's way too obvious! Anyway, it's rather hard to navigate
due south
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
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 04/29/2014 03:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, emile wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/29/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
>>>
"A man pitches his tent, walks 1 km south, walks 1 km east, kills a
bear, & walks
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 06:14 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> On 04/29/2014 03:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, emile wrote:
>>>
On 04/29/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
"A man pitches his tent, walks 1
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Wow. It's amazing how writing something down, wrongly (I originally had
> north and south reversed), correcting it, letting some time pass (enough to
> post the message so one can be properly embarrassed ;), and then rereading
> it later can
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Any point where the mile east takes you an exact number of times
>> around the globe. So, anywhere exactly one mile north of that, which
>> is a number of circles not far from the south pole.
>
>
> It is my contention, completely unbacked by
On 04/30/2014 06:14 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 04/29/2014 03:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, emile wrote:
On 04/29/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
"A man pitches his tent, walks 1 km south, walks 1 km east, kills a
bear, & walks 1 km north, where he's back at hi
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