Mental Nuts-- Can You Crack 'em?

[HungLikeJesus]

What if the squirrel is above the hunter's head? Then the circles are even in different planes.

[infinite monkey]

Imma write a song:

You and I
We come from different worlds
You and and your semantics
Do nothing for the squirrel.

You've got it in your head
That going 'round a tree
Means you go around everything
All the time. Even me.

(music swells)

But though you couldn't see logic
If it bit you in the asssssssssssss
I'll love you 'til the day I die
Because, this too, like aeroplanes,
Shall passssssssssssssssssssss.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

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.

Parallel planes don't intersect, true. that's a geometrical fact. Ok, but it has nothing to do with circles. Maybe there's more there, but by itself, it's ... nothing.

circumference is the distance around something, usually a circle and that applies here. It's a distance. We don't know what either distance is for the squirrel or for the hunter, except because we know how a circumference is defined, we know that the circumference of the path of the hunter is greater than the circumference of the path of the squirrel, since the radius, the distance from the center to the edge, is greater for the hunter than for the squirrel. The radius in this mental nut is the center of the tree, the point about which each "goes around".

So, we have circumferences. One's bigger than the other. But distances are scalar values, they have a quantity only. They're not vector quantities which have direction. If you measure the distance around something, its circumference, it's a value, and it has that same value regardless of direction. Actually, direction is meaningless in the context of a circumference.

So, I'm still stuck, there's no such thing as a parallel circumference, even ones that have been unwound into straight line segments.

Please continue.

footfootfoot, if you can quench my thirst, I'd be much obliged. If you can't, just toss out another nut, willya?

[infinite monkey]

Yeah all that crap don't make no sense to me, so argue away Mr Wordy Man. That's why I didn't elaborate, just throwing it out there. I thought maybe a smarty pants could make something of it.

Still don't make it so, hunter don't circle no squirrel, though I am starting to wish he'd circle some of y'all. And REAL soon-like.

A'yup.

[HungLikeJesus]

What does "paying 10 per cent. advance to the party" mean? Is it a political party? The Hindustani party?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

What if the squirrel is above the hunter's head? Then the circles are even in different planes.

I thought of this. I make a big circle here. A squirrel makes a smaller circle over there or down there. The planes could be parallel. In this case, I don't think that the hunter has gone around the squirrel.

But the graphic and the commonsense illustration seemed to give the impression that both the hunter and the squirrel were at about the same height above the ground, and thus, in the same plane.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

What does "paying 10 per cent. advance to the party" mean? Is it a political party? The Hindustani party?

No fair asking questions!

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

You can lead a horse to water...

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

Love the "per cent."- 1921, hah!


The hunter goes around the sqkewrll.

[glatt]

that latest nut isn't written in any English I understand.

[ZenGum]

#36 ... The cow originally cost $30.

[footfootfoot]

Does anyone else notice that Zen conveniently was on vacation during the whole squirrel debacle?

[footfootfoot]

#37

[HungLikeJesus]

1.5 hen-days are required per egg,: 7*6/1.5 = 28

[footfootfoot]

We always asked If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, then how long does it take a cricket with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds from a dill pickle? I never knew there was a real 1.5 hen question.

Bonus Nut:

If it takes 4 men 3 days to dig 2 holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?

[HungLikeJesus]

The man runs around the tree while the squirrel digs the half a-hole.