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The solutions on Wiki are under 'Recreational Mathematics'. I glanced at them and had to go and lie down.3 points
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I remember the South African Police being asked about integration in the late 1970's, in those dark racist days there. The Police Chief said there was nothing to worry about, since: "our boys are up all night integrating suspects"... Must get a snack - all this talking has given me quite an apartheid.....1 point
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I like the fact that the sixpence is "defiantly silver", which the George IV crown certainly isn't!1 point
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I was doing something similar by trying to add two segments with similar chord length but differing radii. It all went t*ts up when it dawned that I had a second variable (the angle) in the equations - at which point I realised I had forgotten about integrals.1 point
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I was thinking of doing it by a different way. The area of sector + the areas of the 2 segments. Rather curious if we can still remember the A level maths done decades ago. But on second thought, I would rather make some lunch instead.
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I started with the queen at a corner if that's allowed.
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With no one volunteering a solution I decided to see if the answer was online anywhere - and it is. Here is a comprehensive solution on wikipedia along with several further problems and solutions on the same theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_problem I didn't know it was quite THAT complicated!0 points