{"id":255,"date":"2010-11-17T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-11-17T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:34:13","slug":"a-math-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/a-math-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Math Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem: There&#8217;s a box with a hole at each end, and<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a rabbit in the box. The rabbit sticks his head out<br \/>\nof the hole in one end, and a minute later he sticks it out<br \/>\nthe other end. Half a minute later, his head appears at the<br \/>\nopposite end, a fourth of a minute later it appears at the<br \/>\nend opposite to that one, an eighth of a minute later, etc.,<br \/>\netc. How long will it take before the rabbit sticks its head<br \/>\nout of both ends of the box at the same time?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In theory, two minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In practice, no answer is possible unless you split hares.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The latest GCFL funny can always be found on the web at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcfl.net\/latest.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gcfl.net\/latest.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem: There&#8217;s a box with a hole at each end, and there&#8217;s a rabbit in the box. The rabbit sticks his head out of the hole in one end, and a minute later he sticks it out the other end. Half a minute later, his head appears at the opposite end, a fourth of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/a-math-problem\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what","tag-fun-2","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-47","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}