{"id":734,"date":"2013-11-08T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T05:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:10","slug":"can-you-solve-this-puzzle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/can-you-solve-this-puzzle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Solve This Puzzle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this puzzle the other day.<\/p>\n<p>You have two fuses. Each fuse is a piece of string, that burns for exactly 1 minute. However, the fuse doesn&#8217;t burn evenly, so cutting the fuse in half doesn&#8217;t give you two 30 second fuses.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The original puzzle is: using these two fuses, can you time exactly 45 seconds?<\/p>\n<p>What times can you time exactly? What if you have three fuses?<\/p>\n<p>If you have an infinite number of fuses, can you time any time at all as closely as you want?<\/p>\n<p>Where does this puzzle stop being a puzzle and become a mathematical research question?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this puzzle the other day. You have two fuses. Each fuse is a piece of string, that burns for exactly 1 minute. However, the fuse doesn&#8217;t burn evenly, so cutting the fuse in half doesn&#8217;t give you two 30 second fuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,466,7,303,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}