It's not a story.

It's simple geometry.

Prolly. but who knows what evil lurks in the index of his little book.

I wasn't trying to outdo your answer, I just took a LONG time formatting my charty thingy and the posts landed accordingly.

I knew dat. I had to double check mine to see that it matched yours. Wanted to make sure I'd said it right.

And it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the hunter goes around the squirrel.

You can put a pig in a dinner jacket but it's still a pig.

Infi gets #34 right, BigV gets #35 right.

Glatt and Classic are on probation.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but a bird in the hand is worth a silk purse.

On probation? For what? Being correct? Ya Cock!

he's a German Purse



Deutch Bag

No, not from my perspective. The axle is the tree, the squirrel is the hub and the hunter is the outside of the rim.

This whole thing is dependent upon the definition of "go around"
This is where the dispute comes in. Depending upon one's definition of that either answer is correct. I'm out.


ETA - again semantics, NOT geometry. :p:

No, again. It's GEOMETRY. NOT semantics.

You. Are. Wrong.

kthxbai :p

My new favorite obsession. It really is about geometry. When the puzzle says circle the tree, that's geometry. There's a plain unambiguous definition of a circle, likewise what is inside and what is outside the circle.

I'd love to understand the reasoning behind this different conclusion, really. I've heard lots of justifications, facing, semantics, parallel paths, ropes, turning, not turning, tree, etc etc. None of them stand up, or at least none have been convincing to me. I would like to be convinced, if it is really what you believe, that the squirrel has not been gone around. But nothing has done that yet.

Until then, the geometry of a circle, the semantic definition of a circle, remains the most convincing, truest answer.

Parallel planes never intersect. Geometry.


;)

What if you laid out the circumference of the path of the squirrel and the circumference of the path of the hunter into straight lines?

Parallel lines.

You can lead a horse to water...

And now for some more algebra, which some people find easier to understand:

If you change the problem so the hunter doesn't go around the squirrel, then I would agree that the hunter doesn't go around the squirrel. Until then...

OK, V...

The hunter goes around a circle.
The circle has a center.
The center is a point.
A point has zero dimensions.

Ibso Santorum, the hunter goes around nothing.

:rolleyes: