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Re: Medieval Navigation Problem
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Nov 26, 09:37 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Nov 26, 09:37 -0800
Brad you wrote: Tie a string to the barn and walk to the river. Radius of a circle.
At least he would have been able to follow the string back to the house if it got dark while he was thinking about it, but did this get the water to the animals in the barn, and what is the shortest distance he needed to walk? DaveP