{"id":3351,"date":"2023-10-21T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2023-10-25T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:51:28","slug":"two-more-jugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/21\/two-more-jugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More Jugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3349\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Two-More-Jugs-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Two-More-Jugs-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Two-More-Jugs-Fig2-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Here is another classic example of the three jug problem posed in the <em>Mathigon<\/em> Puzzle Calendars for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can I measure exactly 8 liters of water, using just one 11 liter and one 6 liter bucket?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is assumed you have unlimited access to water (the \u201cthird jug\u201d of at least 17 liters).\u00a0 You can only fill or empty the jugs, unless in poring from one jug to another you fill the receiving jug before emptying the poring jug.\u00a0 (Hint: see the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/2018\/12\/29\/three-jugs-problem\/\">Three Jugs Problem<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Two-More-Jugs-220110.pdf\">Two More Jugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another classic example of the three jug problem posed in the Mathigon Puzzle Calendars for 2017. \u201cHow can I measure exactly 8 liters of water, using just one 11 liter and one 6 liter bucket?\u201d It is assumed you have unlimited access to water (the \u201cthird jug\u201d of at least 17 liters).\u00a0 You [&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":[250,75],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-mathigon","tag-skew-billiard-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}