Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Logic puzzle
Since I seem to be in an automotive mood, might as well continue.
Let's say you have a short single-wide driveway in front of your house. What the Brits call a 'hardstanding'. And you also have a long driveway into your back yard, leading to a large double garage and a huge double-width RV carport, capable of holding three cars or two mobile homes.
You have three vehicles. Two of them are small four-door sedans and one is an expensive sports job with a ripped convertible top that might as well not be a top. The car you drive most often is the expensive ripped convertible.
How would you fit those three cars into the available storage spots? In theory, there are several equally good arrangements, all of which would put the torn ragtop in the rainproof garage. That's the obvious constant.
Nope, that's not how it's done. One of the sedans goes under the RV shed. The other sedan goes into the front position of the 'hardstanding' and the ripped convertible goes into the back position of the 'hardstanding', where it is maximally exposed to rain. Nothing goes in the garage.
I've sworn to avoid theories and obey only facts and experience. This is how actual people solve this actual puzzle, so I have to assume this is the best solution. Perhaps there is some negative vibration in the double garage that scares the ripped convertible.
¶ 9:05 AM 
