SpaceManMat
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The solution is to forget about the crops and use the field to fly rockets.
Definately a better answer than what any mathametician came up with.
The solution is to forget about the crops and use the field to fly rockets.
Is the challenge to find a single line that will always work in any field, or a method to find the line that will work in a particular field but it would be different for the next field?
I'm pretty sure the latter is an easy solution but the former is impossible.
Correct - the solution will work with any field / crop combination...Is the challenge to find a single line that will always work in any field
So you said, and then the answer you gave was not a single line that works in any field, but a method. I was excited to find the answer I thought to be impossible.
Wait, wait. That solution is incorrect. I saw the diagonal line thing right away, but ONE solution didn't work for ALL scenarios. Also violates not knowing the position of the crop, which is necessary for drawing a line through it's center.
The problem, as written, does not have a solution. The author of the New Scientist article must have had a "momentary lapse of logic". Needs to be re-written.
Two farmers inherit a square field containing a crop planted in a circle. Without knowing the exact size of the field or crop, or the crops position within the field, how can they draw a single line to divide both the crop and field equally?
But, it does require knowing the center of the circle,
So you said, and then the answer you gave was not a single line that works in any field, but a method. I was excited to find the answer I thought to be impossible.
It's funny though, I hadn't realized just how much I'd forgotten about trig and properties of regular shapes and such until I started 3D printing and modeling things, and had to dredge-up all of those old memories like SOHCAHTOA, etc.
Relative to what?
Center of circle with respect to itself. My solution does not require knowing where the crop circle is within the field.
Do share.
Do you need to know where a corner of the field is?
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