Friday problem...

[V3g3tto]

I can see how that works, but my first assumption was a mountain.

You walk down it south, around it east, then back up it north? Has holes in it, but almost right.

But yeh, seeing how the north pole encapsulates 'North', walking north would take you there regardless. So starting at north pole, walking anwwhere...if you walked back north, you'd end up back at North pole, as it's...north.

 

[V3g3tto]

Maybe I'm being dumb (probably) but how does this one not work and the second one does its based on the same principle is it not?

Aero

Haven't read past posts, maybe already answered, but:

Walking south from south pole? Can't be done.

 

[Visage]

Maybe I'm being dumb (probably) but how does this one not work and the second one does its based on the same principle is it not?

Aero

Your case is indeed true, but the question was 'How many points', not 'Can you name one'

 

[Aero]

Haven't read past posts, maybe already answered, but:

Walking south from south pole? Can't be done.

It states the North pole?

Aero

 

[V3g3tto]

It states the North pole?

Aero

Ok, i haven't read what you're on about, i'll admit lol, but i assumed you were asking why it works for north pole and not south pole?

 

[Aero]

Your case is indeed true, but the question was 'How many points', not 'Can you name one'

Cheers thats what I was after (I was being dumb = not surprised) I got caught up in the wording, So the answer is infinite?

Aero

 

[Visage]

Cheers thats what I was after (I was being dumb = not surprised) I got caught up in the wording, So the answer is infinite?

Aero

Yup. Ive always assumed that it was one as well - the north pole, as you stated, but a colleague pointed out the other cases to me this morning...

 

[taz488]

there are infinitely many points that you can do this from.

 

[Visage]

there are infinitely many points that you can do this from.

Thanks.

 

[V3g3tto]

Whilst i'm here.

A man who wants to goto the 25th floor of a building is frustrated that the lift stops on every floor along the way; No one gets in or out of the lift. Why?

 

[Gilly]

Wouldn't it be finite, not infinite? Eventually you'd do the same one again.

 

[Cr0fty]

Whilst i'm here.

A man who wants to goto the 25th floor of a building is frustrated that the lift stops on every floor along the way; No one gets in or out of the lift. Why?

A little kid pressed all the buttons ^

 

[Aero]

1. Cos its a stana stair lift.

2. Cos some annoying kid had pressed all the buttons as he got out before the man got on.

Aero

 

[Aod]

Whilst i'm here.

A man who wants to goto the 25th floor of a building is frustrated that the lift stops on every floor along the way; No one gets in or out of the lift. Why?

some annoying child continuously presses all the buttons?

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noooooooo! foiled once more!

 

[V3g3tto]

No one got in or out of it though. If he's getting the lift from the first floor, no kid gets out, he couldn't of pressed all the buttons inside the lift before it went up.

 

[Gilly]

No one got in or out of it though. If he's getting the lift from the first floor, no kid gets out, he couldn't of pressed all the buttons inside the lift before it went up.

Course he could Could have been done in the basement or on the ground floor...

 

[Aero]

He's a window cleaner on one of those exterior lifts.

Aero

 

[Visage]

Wouldn't it be finite, not infinite? Eventually you'd do the same one again.

Nope. There are an infinite number of points on the earths surface that are (1 + 1/(2n*pi)) miles from the north pole. Each value of n gives you a line of latitude, on which there are an infinite number of points.

 

[V3g3tto]

Course he could Could have been done in the basement or on the ground floor...

Dammit, don't cut corners lol, he's on the bottom floor.

Someone google it becasue a) i can't be bothered and b) amusingly, i don't actually know the answer

 

[Gilly]

Having trouble with that, as there isn't an infinite number of points on the earth.