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 coastline
2014-05-01 3:57 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com:
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com 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.
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 em...@fenx.com 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
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us 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
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us 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
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us 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 em...@fenx.com wrote:
On 04/29/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
A man pitches his tent,
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
On 04/29/2014 03:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, emile em...@fenx.com 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
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 Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com 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