The first computer I owned was a Dragon32, but I had learned BASIC years
before on a GE remote time-sharing mainframe.
With the instructor's help I wrote an algorithmic solution to a maths
puzzle that had plagued me for years.
If anyone wants to try it, here's the puzzle:
A farmer tethers a bull at the circumference of a circular field of
known diameter so the bull can graze half of the area of the field.
How long is the rope?
/(This is supposed to have been set, by accident, as an O level maths
question - it should probably have said the centre of the field,
although that would be a bit trivial.)/
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