Unindicted co-conspirator #2 called from Oslo to ask the following question:
Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do you need to allow the animal access to exactly half an acre? – Quanta Magazine
Late breaking…. UC#2 has solved it, without the necessity of buying the farm….
As the paterfamilias, I suggested that UC#2 purchase a farm with an existing circular irrigation system. Additional purchases include: goat (1), rope (1).
I suggested that the problem is basically one of Venn diagrams. We have to look for the intersection of crops that are grown using circular irrigation, and food which goats enjoy.
This raises many questions. How long should the food be? One foot? One meter? What is browsing? What is a goat’s preferred browser?
Goat Preferences: Internet Browser
Cost Effectiveness
So the standard circular irrigation system covers 130 acres (with a pivot arm of 1/4 mile (0.402336 km), but for our research we need only one acre.
So, we need a pivot arm that is 1/2 of 166.5267465 feet (1/2 of 5075.73523332 cm).
Note that the The diameter of a hydrogen atom is about 0.00000001 cm, so we will need some really precision tooling.
The Going Gets Weird
When accessing the Quora query, we get the following screen:
I consider this a major failure of the Quora AI advertising algorithm. What individual that spends his/her su/ella time researching math/agriculture/goat problems, and would actually have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Cute Baby Goats
