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Okay, you caught me 
Since you have answered your own question, time for a new one.
Since you have answered your own question, time for a new one.
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(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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12 decimal equals 14 octal, 14 decimal divided by 2 is 7.<Kassiopeia> you don't keep the virgins in your lair at a sodomising distance from your beasts or male prisoners. If you devirginised them yourself, though, that's another story. If they devirginised each other, then, I hope you had that webcam running.
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Seems like some kind of word play...(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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That's it! Thanks to Douglas Hofstadter for that problem, BTW: It originally appeared in Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.Originally posted by Ignorance
Guess "he" fits the requirements too.
Can't come up with anything else.
Thanks. At first I didn't know what you were talking about; I forgot who posted what, so I thought that you were referring to the "dwarf" problem posted by Stefu near the beginning of the thread, which I supplied a more general answer to. Looking back to it, I saw that my answer should have referred to gnomes, not dwarves. Imagine my embarassment.Originally posted by Zero-Tau
Now I'm here, I'll just add that JohnM2433 has indeed given the right answer to my riddle.
"God is dead." - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." - GodComment
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12 is XII in roman numerals.
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VII is 7"In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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It starts snowing before 4 pm on a cold day. At 4 pm snow plow starts plowing.
It travels 2 km in the first hour, and 1 km on second hour, slowed down by the increasing snow.
Plows speed is inversely propotional to the height of snow. Snow falls at constant rate.
When did snow start falling?"In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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If the plow travels at half the speed after an hour, then the amount of snow must have doubled.
If the snow falls at a constant rate, then it must've started falling at 3 pm: after 1 hour there is (duh) 1 hour worth of snow, then after 2 hours, there is 2 hours worth of snow, which is twice as high since it is falling constant......
So the answer is 3 pm<Kassiopeia> you don't keep the virgins in your lair at a sodomising distance from your beasts or male prisoners. If you devirginised them yourself, though, that's another story. If they devirginised each other, then, I hope you had that webcam running.
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It's not that simple.
Snow does not come hourly, it falls all the time.
Assuming it started at 3pm, there would be 1.5 hours worth of snow on the first hour to plow on average, and 2.5 on second. Which does not add up."In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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Then 3:30pm.
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The distance travelled by the plow in any time is the integral of the plow's velocity over its time.It starts snowing before 4 pm on a cold day. At 4 pm snow plow starts plowing.
It travels 2 km in the first hour, and 1 km on second hour, slowed down by the increasing snow.
Plows speed is inversely propotional to the height of snow. Snow falls at constant rate.
When did snow start falling?
And the plow speed is inversely proportional to the snow's high, or v ~ 1/h, or v = c1/h, c1 belonging to the set of real numbers
And the the rate of increase of the snow height is constant, or h = c2t, c2 belonging to the set of real numbers.
Putting all that together,
[integral]dt{t=4hr..5hr}c1/(c2t) = 2 km
[integral]dt{t=5hr..6hr}c1/(c2t) = 1 km
c1/c2ln(5/4) = 2
c1/c2ln(6/5) = 1
Solve that (which I can't be arsed to do
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And once you get the constants, you'd plug those back into the original equations, and get the answer."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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I'm more interesting in knowing how fast the snowplough can go when it hasn't snowed.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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