January 21, 2008

Semirigid quadrat

Semirigid - having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure

Quadrat - a rectangular sampling plot used for ecological or population studies.

This morning, someone sent me a cool logic problem that I liked, so I decided to post it here. Unfortunately, I can't take credit for it, but I can't source it either, since I don't know where it's from. Anyway, here it is:

Five ants have been in charge of building their anthills, but are now bored with the results, as none of them consider theirs impressive. One morning, for the fun of it, they decide to blow up their hills using dynamite. How high is each ant's anthill, what time is it to be blown up & how much dynamitedoes each ant choose to use?

Hints:

  • 10g of dynomite is being used on the tallest of the hills.
  • 12g of dynomite is to be used at either 8:30am or 9:30am
  • Clairvoy-ant, who did not use the least or most explosive, did not live up to his name as he didn't predict that his hill would be exactly 25cm shorter than the hill due to be blown sky high at 10:30am
  • 5g of dynomite is to be used before Unimport-ant demolishs his hill wich will be half an hour after Complain-ant.
  • Refriger-ant's hill is exactly 15cm shorter than the hill to be blown up at 11:00am, but he is using less dynomite than the hill to be blown up at 10:30am
  • Predomin-ant's hill is due to be blown up exactly one hour after the hill that is being blown up by 8g of dynomite.

Like in my puzzle #2, there are obviously some responses that aren't given in the problem. I always thought that this was perfectly acceptable in logic puzzles, but some disagreed with me on the last one, so I will give you very clear instructions here: make them up. Now, no one should complain.

As I spent a fair portion of last weekend searching through and downloading random music, though mostly video game music (hmm, that sounds really lame... oh well), I decided to waste the time of my fellow gamers and readers of Saddening Goat by sending them the link of a site my friend showed me too! It's pretty good, as it has most popular video game music, and it also has many themes from animés, if you're into that. Just go here, and search through the column on the left. The only problem with it is that some of the songs were either poorly ripped off of NES or gameboy games directly, which made them mutated, and have pretty bad sound quality, or very altered from their original versions. For instance, those of you who have played Mario Power Tennis for gamecube will know that this is not exactly how the main theme goes, though it does start out correctly.

I think I will end my post here, as I have no more that I urgently need to say. By the way, I think that this more or less sums up what I was saying the other day. Next time, I will discuss the Bloons franchise/series/whatever you want to call it, so you should all educate yourselves here so that you will know what I'm talking about. A la prochaine!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

lol ants? Reminds me of Ant. I don't know why ants would want to blow up their anthills but alas, there's a word problem for you.

loopyloo100 said...

Hi

I wrote this puzzle! You can find the original version at The Logic Zone

Thanks