{"id":2511,"date":"2021-12-25T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2024-04-06T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T21:22:00","slug":"river-traffic-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/25\/river-traffic-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"River Traffic Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2509\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/River-Traffic-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/River-Traffic-Fig2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/River-Traffic-Fig2-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Here is another elegant <em>Quantum<\/em> math magazine Brainteaser problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA raft and a motorboat set out downstream from a point A on the riverbank. At the same moment a second motorboat of the same type sets out from point B to meet them. When the first motorboat arrives at B, will the raft (floating with the current) be closer to point A or to the second motorboat? (G. Galperin)\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/River-Traffic-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/River-Traffic-Problem-200727.pdf\">River Traffic Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another elegant Quantum math magazine Brainteaser problem. \u201cA raft and a motorboat set out downstream from a point A on the riverbank. At the same moment a second motorboat of the same type sets out from point B to meet them. When the first motorboat arrives at B, will the raft (floating with [&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":[194,81],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-quantum-magazine","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}