Quiz III

[Mich the Tester]

Two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven

Depends who else is there.

[OwlHoot]

Well to be fair - I don't think its right to say "Everyone assumed that A has to come back all the time".

Mich gave you the answer (albeit sneakily) about 10 mins after you posted....

OwlHoot - Bragged about how easy it was (although he was spouting bulltulip)
ASB - Told him he was wrong (which suggests that He knew the real answer)
I - (also) Implied OwlHoot was shot down flames (suggesting I knew the answer)

Don't you read any of this stuff!!

DOH

In hindsight it's obvious the two biggest slow coaches should cross together.

[Drewster]

DOH

In hindsight it's obvious the two biggest slow coaches should cross together.

Hindsight - Wonderful thing!
PS - I am the lardy slowcoach!

[ASB]

An airport-inspired puzzle

I liked this response from professor shoelace:-

Professor Shoelace

“Is it more efficient to do so while on a walkway, or off the walkway?”.

If our ONLY concern is the total time taken to get from A to B, then pausing to tie while on the walkway is indeed both intuitively and mathematically a “more efficient” use of our time.

Personally, I believe it would be “more efficient” to tie your shoes immediately upon noticing that they had come undone, regardless of whether that occurred on a walkway or not. That way, one’s energies could be devoted to pondering other more worthwhile things (such as mathematics) rather than concentrating on stepping carefully to avoid an accident due to an untied shoelace.

For even greater efficiency, those who regularly suffer from untied shoelaces would be well advised to Google the problem. The short time spent learning a better shoelace knot will invariably be far less than the combined times of thousands of re-ties over the space of a lifetime.