The maverick West Indies' wicketkeeper-batsman hit eight sixes in his 29-ball 75 to set-up a comfortable win over the pre-tournament favourites
sports11 hours ago
You guys (and that obviously includes the girls too) are really something. Take, for instance, the chicken farmer and number of legs problem. I literally got four score and more answers, of which only a few have been run here and - get this - most of them were prefixed by "Oh this is a baby problem" or "It's just too easy" or "Any eighth grader can solve it", etc. The same goes for the cricket hat-trick puzzle sent in by a reader. Tons of emails came e-hailing on my head! I get it, I get it; these are such easy peasy problems that the huge hatchet in your heads can hammer out solutions in yoctoseconds (look it up) or less.
But when it comes to the ostensibly tough ones, the ones you look over the horizon so &you don't have to face them, I get almost zilch answers. For example consider this problem that was run recently: "A perfect sphere made entirely of chalk, rolls on a uniform flat surface at a constant speed. The chalk is transferred from the sphere to the surface at a uniform rate. If the sphere rolls in a straight line until there is nothing left of it to roll, approximately what shape will be seen on the flat surface?" So far, I've got two and a half solutions, of which one is wrong, one is sort of right, and the half - a bit of both. Anyone want to attempt it again or do we go back to pre-Montessori days again?
The maverick West Indies' wicketkeeper-batsman hit eight sixes in his 29-ball 75 to set-up a comfortable win over the pre-tournament favourites
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