[extropy-chat] extropian book puzzle

[spike]

Appears to have been an inch worm.

- Jef

 

 

 

Jef has caught one of the gotchas.  Books are usually placed on a shelf such
that the titles on the backs read top to bottom.  If the volumes were in
alphabetical order, Dr. Broderick's book would be in the center with the
front cover of Atlas and the back cover of Nanosystems in contact on either
side.  So those other two volumes would have been completely undevoured in
the scenario I described.

 

However there is an additional gotcha.  {8-]

 

spike

 

 

 

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Appears to have been an inch worm.

- Jef

 


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Subject: [extropy-chat] extropian book puzzle

 

I have three volumes on my shelf: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Damien
Broderick's excellent The Spike (a treasured Doherty hardback first edition,
graciously autographed by the author himself), and K Eric Drexler's
Nanosystems (also autographed by the author).  Assume each of these volumes
is exactly one inch thick, adjacent and arranged in my own peculiar system,
alphabetical by first name of the author.  A bookworm devours a straight
lone hole beginning outside the front cover of Atlas Shrugged and ending up
outside the back cover of Nanosystems.  

 

How far did the wretched beast travel?

 

 

 

 

Read carefully, watch for gotchas.

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