Timeline for Ants on a rod puzzle [closed]
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| Mar 15, 2010 at 21:11 | history | closed |
Steve Huntsman user350 Yemon Choi Kim Morrison |
too localized | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 19:27 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Douglas, when I first read your comment I thought you were saying something about the hats falling off of the ants and got terribly confused. | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 18:29 | answer | added | Sergei Ivanov | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 18:04 | comment | added | Reid Barton | Instead of "Intuitively an answer can be arrived at" it would be much better to say "I think the answer is ___, because ..." | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 17:53 | comment | added | Harald Hanche-Olsen | Those are extremely fast ants! | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 17:50 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | Imagine that colliding ants switch hats. Then the hats ignore each other and fall off within 1 second. | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 17:50 | comment | added | Petya | Answer is 1 sec. You may think that ants freely pass, without any colliding. | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 17:36 | history | asked | Ashish | CC BY-SA 2.5 |