2 Sep
2017
2 Sep
'17
12:52 p.m.
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.)/ <snip>
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