Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.044 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.92; '*S*': 0.00; 'creative,': 0.07; 'suppose': 0.07; 'part,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject: [': 0.09; 'subject:skip:c 10': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'mostly': 0.14; 'posted': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'solution.': 0.20; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'either.': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'url:wiki': 0.31; 'url:wikipedia': 0.31; 'open': 0.33; 'noticed': 0.34; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'url:org': 0.36; 'easily': 0.37; 'starting': 0.37; 'being': 0.38; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'ian': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'black': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'north': 0.65; 'within': 0.65; 'believe': 0.68; 'circle': 0.68; 'materials,': 0.84; 'mile': 0.84; 'pole': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'water,': 0.84; 'bears': 0.91; 'canonical': 0.91; 'walking': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less [was Re: Significant digits in a float?] Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:20:57 -0400 References: <535f0f9f$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8td53bxud5.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> <5360F72F.2000102@stoneleaf.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-254-207.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1398910910 news.xs4all.nl 2878 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:40219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70799 On 4/30/2014 7:46 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > It also works if your starting point is (precisely) the north pole. I > believe that's the canonical answer to the riddle, since there are no > bears in Antarctica. For the most part, there are no bears within a mile of the North Pole=20 either. "they are rare north of 88=C2=B0" (ie, 140 miles from pole). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bears They mostly hunt in or near open water, near the coastlines. I find it amusing that someone noticed and posted an alternate,=20 non-canonical solution. How might a bear be near the south pole? As=20 long as we are being creative, suppose some jokester mounts a near=20 life-size stuffed black bear, made of cold-tolerant artificial=20 materials, near but not at the South Pole. The intent is to give fright=20 to naive newcomers. Someone walking in a radius 1/2pi circle about the=20 pole might easily see it. --=20 Terry Jan Reedy