{"id":1538,"date":"2020-04-01T07:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2024-04-09T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:54:23","slug":"the-bicycle-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/01\/the-bicycle-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bicycle Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1536\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bicycle-Problem-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/>A fun, relatively new, Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos) has puzzles couched in terms of the Holmes-Watson banter. The following problem is a variation on the Sam Loyd <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/24\/tandem-bicycle-puzzle\/\">Tandem Bicycle Puzzle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c \u2018Here\u2019s something mostly unrelated for you to chew over, my dear Watson. Say you and I have a single bicycle between us, and no other transport options save walking. We want to get the both of us to a location eighteen miles distant as swiftly as possible. If my walking speed is five miles per hour compared to your four, but for some reason\u2014perhaps a bad ligament\u2014my cycling speed is eight miles per hour compared to your ten. How would you get us simultaneously to our destination with maximum rapidity?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A cab,\u2019 I suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Without cheating,\u2019 Holmes replied, and went back to tossing his toast in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bicycle-Problem-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bicycle-Problem-200131.pdf\">Bicycle Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun, relatively new, Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos) has puzzles couched in terms of the Holmes-Watson banter. The following problem is a variation on the Sam Loyd Tandem Bicycle Puzzle. \u201c \u2018Here\u2019s something mostly unrelated for you to chew over, my dear Watson. Say you and I have 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":[133,193,81],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-tim-dedopulos","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}