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Burning ropes (Posted on 2002-03-28)

You have two ropes. You know that each rope takes one hour to burn from one end to the other, but that the burning does not take place at a constant rate (i.e. half the rope may burn in one minute, and the other half will take 59 more minutes to burn).

How would you go about measuring a 45 minute time interval with just these two ropes?

See The Solution Submitted by levik

Rating: 3.7308 (26 votes)

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Subject	Author	Date
First puzzle	Math Man	2012-05-11 21:03:09
Solution	K Sengupta	2007-05-16 06:17:05
Wow	jbcf05	2007-03-07 16:26:16
a new curve on things.	gabbo	2004-09-15 21:46:54
re: a try	Dacre	2003-10-24 09:28:49
cool	Talon5000	2003-07-31 11:04:58
Saw	John Tate	2003-06-08 11:16:11
Give up.	John Tate	2003-06-08 11:14:28
try this	mark hartman	2003-05-28 18:03:33
re: a try	Emon Hunte	2003-02-02 16:49:24
a try	ubergeek	2002-12-26 00:23:16
re: Cool	dex	2002-12-18 13:29:51
Cool	Eric	2002-05-07 06:38:30

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