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wu :: forums    riddles    what happened (Moderators: Icarus, SMQ, william wu, Grimbal, ThudnBlunder, Eigenray, towr)    two cities with a bridge, need help « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: two cities with a bridge, need help  (Read 785 times) nettie Guest two cities with a bridge, need help   « on: Oct 23rd, 2005, 10:33pm » Quote Modify Remove There are two cities, with a bridge spanning the distance between the two. A man leaves City A on Sunday, tavels half a day to cross the bridge. Stays in City B for four days, then spends half a day crossing the bridge back to city A, returning on the same Sunday.   How did the man accomplish this? IP Logged Neelesh Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 147 Re: two cities with a bridge, need help   « Reply #1 on: Oct 23rd, 2005, 11:15pm » Quote Modify Prob ably the man has a new horse, or he renamed it. Originally it was called Tuesday     http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_wha thappened;action=display;num=1119045548;start=5#5 IP Logged Three Hands Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 715 Re: two cities with a bridge, need help   « Reply #2 on: Oct 24th, 2005, 4:45am » Quote Modify Either that or this man happens to be on a sufficiently high-speed rotation planet to allow 5 of the planetary days to pass within 24 hours, and he happened to depart early on Earth's Sunday morning...   Or he's managed to travel sufficiently fast to compensate for the 4 days of rest during the half-day's travel at high velocity taking him back into the past - not sure if that works, from the very sketchy knowledge of Physics I have, but I know that the bridge would be extremely long if it does... IP Logged Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------  - easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i => what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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