Then he told you the precise truth, so what is the problem?
**evil grin**
I always sucked at maths. Hard. Then one day, immediately before the holidays, the teacher gave us a logical riddle: A monk walks up from a monastery in the valley to a hermitage on a mountain, meandering and collecting herbs and taking breaks and so on. He left after morning prayers, and arrives at the hermitage in time for the evening prayer. He then stays the night, and leaves the next morning to go back down by the same path, collecting more herbs and praying by the wayside and so on, and arrives at the monastery in time for the evening prayer. Question: at any time during the second day when he went down, would he have been at precisely the same place at precisely the same time as the day before?
The maths geek in my class just stared like dead carp. I thought a bit, and then gave an answer, with a very simple reason as to why I was right. Now it was the maths teacher's turn to stare like a dead carp.
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**evil grin**
I always sucked at maths. Hard. Then one day, immediately before the holidays, the teacher gave us a logical riddle: A monk walks up from a monastery in the valley to a hermitage on a mountain, meandering and collecting herbs and taking breaks and so on. He left after morning prayers, and arrives at the hermitage in time for the evening prayer. He then stays the night, and leaves the next morning to go back down by the same path, collecting more herbs and praying by the wayside and so on, and arrives at the monastery in time for the evening prayer. Question: at any time during the second day when he went down, would he have been at precisely the same place at precisely the same time as the day before?
The maths geek in my class just stared like dead carp. I thought a bit, and then gave an answer, with a very simple reason as to why I was right. Now it was the maths teacher's turn to stare like a dead carp.