Recognize this pattern?
Archive for May, 2007
Powerful!
May 11, 2007Time Bomb
May 9, 2007You have two matches, and two fuses (pieces of string) which each burn for 30 seconds, and a bomb which must go off exactly 45 seconds after you light the fuse.
How do you determine exactly 45 seconds, using just these two matches and two fuses?
Note: Cutting one fuse in half won’t solve the problem because the fuses are of different thicknesses, and you can’t be sure how long any cut piece will burn.
How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
May 9, 2007A famous pianist once said, “If I miss practice for one day, I notice. If I miss practice for two days, my critics notice. But if I miss practice for three days, my audience notices.”
Who first said this? Ignacy Paderewski or Anton Rubinstein?
