thewebmaster
13th November 2008, 01:49
I've just done our quiz on here on Geography and that got me thinking:yikes::yikes:...............thats it people start running now, me thinking usually leads to :censored:
Anyway, in the spirit of giving people a challenge, and in an arena where i have at least a slight (but only slight) advantage, this is a very simple maths problem. But one which serves to demostrate well how different people think about the same problem.
http://tomlowes.com/problem.jpg
Problem: There are three locations drawn on the picture, the boxes with A B C represent appliances, and the a,b,c represent sockets. You must connect appliance A to socket a appliance B to socket b and appliance C to socket c. Using 3 separate wires, you must stay within the biggest black rectangle(the room). The wires must not cross each other.
Once you've had a chance to think about it, you can see the solution HERE (http://tomlowes.com/solution.jpg), if it exists that is:wink.
Btw, since i'm always keen to motivate people to think about mathematics, if your really really interested:D, it actually links into topology in mathematics:icon_tong. Which computer scientists would have you believe is something to do with networks:wink, but actually extends to pretty much everything. From dough nutts to sub atomic particle arrangement, anyway enough mathematical stuff my head hurts:headbange...
Anyway, in the spirit of giving people a challenge, and in an arena where i have at least a slight (but only slight) advantage, this is a very simple maths problem. But one which serves to demostrate well how different people think about the same problem.
http://tomlowes.com/problem.jpg
Problem: There are three locations drawn on the picture, the boxes with A B C represent appliances, and the a,b,c represent sockets. You must connect appliance A to socket a appliance B to socket b and appliance C to socket c. Using 3 separate wires, you must stay within the biggest black rectangle(the room). The wires must not cross each other.
Once you've had a chance to think about it, you can see the solution HERE (http://tomlowes.com/solution.jpg), if it exists that is:wink.
Btw, since i'm always keen to motivate people to think about mathematics, if your really really interested:D, it actually links into topology in mathematics:icon_tong. Which computer scientists would have you believe is something to do with networks:wink, but actually extends to pretty much everything. From dough nutts to sub atomic particle arrangement, anyway enough mathematical stuff my head hurts:headbange...