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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 22 2000,15:50  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Hey, I'm trying to put together somewhat of a brain teaser anthology. Anyone got any good ones? (riddles, logic puzzles, whatever)
There's some rather intelligent folks on this board - it'll be interesting to see who's got a stumper.

Well, since I brought it up, here's one of mine. I thought it up the other day while doodling, so as far as I know, there may be loopholes or more than one answer. Anyhow, using nothing but straight lines, create a perfect circle.

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Are asking how to do it???

My guess would be either draw the straight lines right next to each other from left to right until you have a perfect filled in circle.

Or draw them the same length but have the middle of each line all intersect at the same point until you have a complete solid circle....

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 22 2000,16:43 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
or pick up one of the lines and punch a hole in the paper, wich of corse whould be.. a perfect circle,
or using only straight lines write out the names of all the original members of tool and then you whould have the band "a perfect circle"

or draw a bunch of straight lines on a peice of paper and sell it on ebay for one penny wich is a perfect circle hmm.. what about the ebay fee?? ok sell it for one penny and 3 mils

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its impossible unless the circle is solid.

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Well, I already know the answer, I was just sharing it. And I guess you guys are right - it may not be perfect , but it's pretty close.

I was just hoping other people had some good brain teasers to share...

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you can't have more than one space in a row, gotta use   ; (with the colon by the nsbp, it shows up as a space! argh!) NO! DAMMIT!
& n b s p ; without the spaces!

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 22 2000,23:50 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Or you could:
1) Draw a strait line on a sheet of paper.
2) Cut it out.
3) Tape the ends together

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quote:
Originally posted by Tsupa:
hmm... it didn't look like that before i posted it... wonder what went wrong... *sigh*

You gotta use the code tag. [ code] code here [/ code].

code:
  
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Originally posted by iso9k:
Well you could always use straight lines to write this out...and you could take it as far as you want...(be as close to a perfect circle that you could get...)

I would like to note that creating a perfect circle is not really possible. You could get close, but.... 3.14 [...etc]

Wait..I'm confused..how does writing out pi give you a perfect circle? Pi is just a ratio.
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There... i drew A Perfect Cirlce using only straight lines.. now what ?

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