Timeline for The lion and the zebras
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| Apr 24, 2015 at 15:06 | history | edited | Mike Earnest |
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| Feb 20, 2015 at 15:14 | answer | added | Trenin | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 20, 2015 at 9:15 | vote | accept | Gamow | ||
| Feb 17, 2015 at 12:13 | comment | added | Sumedh | @JiK,yes you're right,but some of the answers given below consider initial distance between lion & zebras infinite.thats the reason the need arises to explicitly mention, as not everyone understands it implicitly. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 7:41 | comment | added | JiK | @Sumedh All positions on an infinite plane are at a finite distance from the origin. There is no need to mention that. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 5:26 | comment | added | user9584 | I think the above solutions ignore the fact that the zebra the lion is chasing chasing is not necessarily the one it will catch eventually. He needs to employ a strategy where he is approaching the majority of the Zebras at some stage. There are 99 zebras not moving. In the "solution" above the Lion would chase one zebra until above the rest and the majority were below and to the right (for example). Then come back down straight at the nearest zebra. The goal to force the nearest zebra towards other zebras. A soon as that zebra branched away the lion changes it attention to pushing another zeb | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | Sumedh | If zebras choose a place at an infinite distance,then lion can never catch them even if zebras arent allowed to move, for a simple reason that 100m covered by lion is a finite number & he needs to catch zebras in a finite no of moves, so the product of two finite numbers(100 & #no of moves) can never be infinite.So this would make the puzzle itself meaningless.So it must be mentioned that zebras can take position at a finite distance from lion only. | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 15:10 | answer | added | Lopsy | timeline score: 62 | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 13:46 | answer | added | Rok Kralj | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 12:26 | answer | added | Michael Rize | timeline score: -13 | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 9:36 | history | asked | Gamow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |