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Does anyone have the post of the math puzzle with a bug on a 1x1x2 box where you have to maximize the minimum path along the surface?

>> No.14927776
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14927776

bump I want it too

>> No.14928909

Uhh, I just closed the thread. It would be pretty simple to replicate though.

>> No.14928918
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14928918

It's not B.

>> No.14928949

>>14928918
it is b

>> No.14928957

>>14928918
i smush the food over its butt

>> No.14928958

>>14928949
I'm sorry but it's just not B. I know you want it to be B, but it's not.

>> No.14928965

>>14928958
you deserve to be eaten alive by small red ants

>> No.14928984

Narrator: it was B

>> No.14928988

>>14928918
what's the shortest path from A to B either way? can someone draw it mathematically?

>> No.14928999

>>14928988
just burrow through it duh

>> No.14929000

>>14928988
√1 + 2

>> No.14929003

>>14929000
I'm sorry, it's √2 + 2

>> No.14929010

It's always so funny to see little-minded /lit/ards struggle with this elementary 10th grade problem. "It's B, it's B, it's B, it has to be B!!!!", shouts the brainlet. He wants the reality to conform to his simple mind, to be as simple him, yet the complex reality is left unscathed. The answer is still not B. And anon is still a brainlet. It's poetic really.

>> No.14929020

>>14928988
without doing any math i'd guess it's by taking the middle route through both the rectangle and the square

if you imagine it unfolded then that would be like the diagonal which would be a straight line

>> No.14929023

>>14929010
you will suffer in the afterlife for posting this bait

>> No.14929035

>>14928999
>>14929000
>>14929003
>>14929020
how to draw it though

>> No.14929161
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14929161

>>14928918
It's B, here is the proof. See that the solutions for the x and y coordinates are both 2

>> No.14929167
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14929167

>>14929161
It's not B.

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14929171

>>14929035

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>>14929167
It's B

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>>14929171
so this one?

>> No.14929571

>>14929474
Genau

>> No.14929615

>>14928918
It doesn't explicitly say that the box has 6 sides, so assuming one of the sides is open, that would mean the longest possible route would be from point A to the point diagonal from it on the side facing us, on the INSIDE of the box.

>> No.14929829

>>14929615
That's still wrong. Even in your situation there is a point that is further than the opposite diagonal point.

>> No.14929880
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>>14929615
>>14929829
here's the point is in the case there is no back wall.

>> No.14929903

>>14929880
Note that the point is on the opposite (invisible) side of the wall.

>> No.14929958

>>14929880
>>14929903
wrong. bug walks on the SURFACE, not on the inside

>> No.14929993

>>14929958
I was talking about the modifed version of the problem that anon mentioned. The fact that you couldn't infer that suggests you might be retarded.

>> No.14930264

>>14928918
I tie a small bit of a toothpick to the bug’s back. I then attach the food to the end of the toothpick, slightly out of the bug’s reach.

>> No.14930285

>>14930264
Not smart, not creative, not funny, just stupid.

>> No.14930339

>>14930285
youre at least humble

>> No.14930341

It is indeed not B. I have a proof for why it is not B and a way to find the area that contains the farthest point. It is somewhere on top along the diagonal from the point above A to B. Might be able to find it in a bit, will post later.

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14930484

It's on the middle of the top square

>> No.14930515

>>14930484
Nevermind that one, it's right between B and the center of the top square

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14930517

>>14930515

>> No.14930525

>>14930484
Yup! Good job!
Now for an additional challenge, what would be the answer if you removed the wall opposite to the front wall?

>> No.14931017

It's b, you people are full of shit

>> No.14931576

Well fuck me, it actually isnt b. Damn.