The agreement with abhishek ghosh
Abhishek ghosh , one year my junior in REC jamshedpur has readily agreed to become my guru in improving my ability to think. He recommends a strong dose of puzzles, readings, annagrams and a whole list of other things.
Mr ghosh who is currently a codejock with TCS (albeit one who would fail by purpose to comply to their SEICMM level 5 norms). A good mech engg our man now wishes to give GATE in comp sc to go to IISC.
His first puzzle was a rather old one
A man goes one mile south, then one mile east and then one mile north to reach the same spot where could he be?
I replied north pole.
His retort...no an infinite set of points including north pole.
And then he explained
See the lattitudes of earth increase from 0 (np) to maximum in the equator and then back to decreasing . Imagine a lattitude in the southern hemisphere which is a mile long.Imagine u were a mile above that lattitude.So one mile south takes u to this lattitude with 1 mile circumfrence. The east condition takes u on a trek along this lattitude only to make u reach the same spot. Now one mile north will take u back to from where u started ur moves.
He then asked me to imagine lattitude with half a mile in length or even 1/4 or 1/8. Going one mile east is gonna make u reach the same place again.
He didn't stop there. Bugger asked me to imagine the earth as a cube.
Tells me how about a one mile cube, and then replicating the same problem.I tried. The dead centre of the top face would then correspond to the north pole of our mother earth.
Finally he says my north pole answer rt if there is a condition that u meet a polar bear. Antartica apparently bereft of them.
And i thought i was smart and i was rt.:-(
It sure is hard trying to become smart especially by solving puzzles.
PS
Now my next exercise is solving an anagram HASH GIBE? He's OK
and he says anagram internet solver not going to help so do help
Mr ghosh who is currently a codejock with TCS (albeit one who would fail by purpose to comply to their SEICMM level 5 norms). A good mech engg our man now wishes to give GATE in comp sc to go to IISC.
His first puzzle was a rather old one
A man goes one mile south, then one mile east and then one mile north to reach the same spot where could he be?
I replied north pole.
His retort...no an infinite set of points including north pole.
And then he explained
See the lattitudes of earth increase from 0 (np) to maximum in the equator and then back to decreasing . Imagine a lattitude in the southern hemisphere which is a mile long.Imagine u were a mile above that lattitude.So one mile south takes u to this lattitude with 1 mile circumfrence. The east condition takes u on a trek along this lattitude only to make u reach the same spot. Now one mile north will take u back to from where u started ur moves.
He then asked me to imagine lattitude with half a mile in length or even 1/4 or 1/8. Going one mile east is gonna make u reach the same place again.
He didn't stop there. Bugger asked me to imagine the earth as a cube.
Tells me how about a one mile cube, and then replicating the same problem.I tried. The dead centre of the top face would then correspond to the north pole of our mother earth.
Finally he says my north pole answer rt if there is a condition that u meet a polar bear. Antartica apparently bereft of them.
And i thought i was smart and i was rt.:-(
It sure is hard trying to become smart especially by solving puzzles.
PS
Now my next exercise is solving an anagram HASH GIBE? He's OK
and he says anagram internet solver not going to help so do help
posted by tanmay at
9:05 PM
6 Comments:
well i was able to find a site that generates anagrams for any word or phrase you enter. For the phrase "HASH GIBE" it created 82 different anagrams ;) for example: BASE HIGH, BE AS HIGH and quite a hilarious one as well -> BE HIS HAG . Here's the link. Enjoy.
http://www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/anagrams.pl
Hash Gibe...anagram for abhishek ghosh. I tried anagram solver but they don't give u proper nouns and names, definately not the indian ones.
gut chested prusty baring it all..
"Hash Gibe" definitely CANNOT be an anagram for "abhishek ghosh". Anagram: A rearrangement of the letters of a word or phrase. It doesn't mean you can add your own letters and repeat some for your convenience ;) :P
Thought I will pipe in too.Well Prusty got some part of it wrong, and Aditi managed the rest :D. The anagram was "Hash Gibe?He's OK" (Aditi read a part of it). Quite interestingly though, Prusty got my name wrong, which is spelled as "Abhishek Ghose".But since "Tanmay Prusty" is "my tuna pastry" I really cant get angry at him,can I?
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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