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Approach the dog keeping just out of reach and beat it to death with a stick.
Hi..Quote from: Petrochemicals on 16/04/2022 21:51:12Approach the dog keeping just out of reach and beat it to death with a stick. That's a possible solution but not one I would recommend. Anyway, I never said there were any sticks in the field.
you have reached a local minimum not necessarily a global minimum
Each dog starts running towards the dog immediately anti-clockwise to it.
Hi. It might be time for a new and suitably short puzzle with dogs. Find the shortest route for a thirsty dog going home.The dog starts 100 m west of his home and 10 m North of it. There's a river running west to east which is 30 m south of his home. The dog must get home and get to river at least once on the way. What is the shortest route?
I've always wondered whether "proper" mathematicians allowed the use of obvious symmetry and reflection as tools in a formal proof.
....that I married the only girl I ever met...
Straight to the dog house and vertically down to the river.
Quote from: Petrochemicals on 15/05/2022 13:13:46Straight to the dog house and vertically down to the river. I guess that might work. The original problem did ask you to find the shortest route for a thirsty dog to get home. The dog did get home and it was thirsty.Best Wishes.
I was so inspired in my youth by Kasner and Newman's "Mathematics and the Imagination" that I married the only girl I ever met who shared that enthusiasm
What sort of "home" for a dog doesn't provide water?
Quote from: alancalverd on 15/05/2022 09:40:34 I was so inspired in my youth by Kasner and Newman's "Mathematics and the Imagination" that I married the only girl I ever met who shared that enthusiasmI'm impressed by your level of inspiration of this book and commitment. Just for humor, what would've happened if you met another girl with the same (or more) level of enthusiasm for "Mathematics and the Imagination"?