tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post82696115452569664..comments2024-01-25T13:55:08.273+00:00Comments on Gendal World: It turns out I asked a good question!Richard Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808940497740675782noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-65537561820652870982007-08-18T20:01:00.000+01:002007-08-18T20:01:00.000+01:00Hi Peter,Good point. We did make the simplifying ...Hi Peter,<BR/><BR/>Good point. We did make the simplifying assumption of no buildings and no hills. Even so, it was a poor approximation.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps a graph would have been better.<BR/><BR/>Grrr.<BR/><BR/>Back to the drawing board.Richard Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808940497740675782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-88904977110317874562007-08-17T16:19:00.000+01:002007-08-17T16:19:00.000+01:00Interesting, I like the app and the details.Just a...Interesting, I like the app and the details.<BR/>Just a thought here...<BR/>Taking the friends meeting scenario, in reality, unless you are on a large field or in the desert, you would have to use streets and maybe some means of transportation. So I think the problem is actually a graph problem rather than a geometry problem.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230054067887476369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-51366535312464257192007-08-09T21:55:00.000+01:002007-08-09T21:55:00.000+01:00@lee: re: multiple points on a straight line... ve...@lee: re: multiple points on a straight line... very nice :-) How cool is that?!<BR/><BR/>@roo: yes. Thank you for that :-p<BR/><BR/>@kyb: good spot. (perhaps we should hold it in their garden :-) )Richard Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808940497740675782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-87780694220325147242007-08-09T15:02:00.000+01:002007-08-09T15:02:00.000+01:00Glad you liked the app. I need to get out more, ap...Glad you liked the app. I need to get out more, apparently.<BR/><BR/>Have you tried the even-number-of-people-on-a-straight-line case? One of your original commenters mentioned this, and the app shows it nicely...Lee Hollingdalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08513993047341589051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-40835881995331016302007-08-09T01:23:00.000+01:002007-08-09T01:23:00.000+01:00Lovely app.In the one where the middle point is sl...Lovely app.<BR/><BR/>In the one where the middle point is slightly off the line, the best place to have the party isn't actually at the middle point, it's just very close to it.kybhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766996004612885478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-76847753895791839062007-08-08T21:22:00.000+01:002007-08-08T21:22:00.000+01:00"if we pretend to have loads of friends"That's wha...<I>"if we pretend to have loads of friends"</I><BR/><BR/>That's what Twitter is for, right? :-)Roo Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963597684783480707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327817.post-21318846113431987192007-08-08T20:52:00.000+01:002007-08-08T20:52:00.000+01:00Good grief.Good grief.enemyradarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14471462381930494676noreply@blogger.com