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Burning ropes (Posted on 2002-03-28) Difficulty: 3 of 5
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?

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Question Give up. | Comment 6 of 13 |
How do you?
  Posted by John Tate on 2003-06-08 11:14:28
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