{"id":128,"date":"2018-12-28T22:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T03:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-12-29T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T15:46:45","slug":"two-circles-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/28\/two-circles-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Circles Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Two-Circles-Prob-Circles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/>Another good source of problems is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/\">Futility Closet<\/a> site. This puzzle involved finding the line of maximal length passing through the intersection of two circles. I solved it before looking at the Futility Closet solution. Their solution of course was short, sweet, and elegant. Mine was more like the old adage of cracking a walnut with a sledge hammer. Still, I thought there were some unexplained parts to the elegant solution that justified the effort on mine. At least my solution provided an interesting, though convoluted, alternative. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Two-Circles-Puzzle-151114.pdf\">Two Circles Puzzle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another good source of problems is the Futility Closet site. This puzzle involved finding the line of maximal length passing through the intersection of two circles. I solved it before looking at the Futility Closet solution. Their solution of course was short, sweet, and elegant. Mine was more like the old adage of cracking a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-futility-closet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}