I made it extra small so that it wouldn't take up much space
But basically the red line segment is being moved along the black one, and the question is 'Is it always possible to move it along?' give any initial black line
The distance between the left point and right point is 0 along the diagonal from (start, start) and at (end, end) and diverges to infinity away from the diagonal, and is continuous as you move the endpoints along the black line.
since it seems you're free to move the stick to the concave side of the curve at each local point, it almost stands to reason that there'd always be a choice that allows it to touch
Wrong. They coincide in the state space, it's just that area is inaccessible for the red line
The red line is constrained to a curve in the state space where the distance is a given value - and you know the relevant parts of the curve are connected because the curve separates the diagonal from the space infinitely far from it
Something like x-axis is the first point, y-axis is the second point and then to each point on this plane we assign it a value, based on the distance between the first and second point?
Also, if the black curve is closed but the red line is shorter than the largest circle inscribed into it, you can still make a full loop with the red line. Same argument, except on torus.
I am a five letters word, find,
a part of me when digging around.
Remove the first and last letters,
to become a First Person Shooter.
Remove the first two letters, and
I will handle versioning for better.
What I am?
Note: No partial answers please.
I never approach directly,
Yet I am most powerful up close.
I’ll make you choose ‘tween two lives;
Save one, the other dies.
I can jump without a body.
I can move without a mind.
Let me roam free and end up behind.
What am I?
Today is a very significant day.
Here, people died. And yet, many were saved.
Emergency call is the same as today.
Death and destruction is the hallmark of this day.
A number is what it is. Catastrophic number it turned out to be.
Ten is the mean for this number(s).
Exact 16 years to this day, i...
I opted to let today pass unmarked by anything as potentially seeming trivialising as a puzzle. There are people on the site old enough to be personally impacted, even if a lot of people may not be.
But if I posted something on new year's day, along the line of "It's two numbers, both are one, it starts the year, also it's today", I doubt that anyone would say that's much of a riddle
Oh, wait, people can get offended by something as trivial as a riddle? I didn't think much along that line. I probably wouldn't have done it if I had known it could be offensive to people.
I doubt there's anything in it that could be considered offensive. Possibly insensitive. But if someone would be offended by it due to the date, then they would probably be offended by anything today.
And it's not nearly as tasteless as np's fake suicide note puzzle
Oh, I don't think your riddle is offensive or disrespectful and doubt many people would, but it could be a little off-putting when it's on your mind as something that is painful to remember as it is, and then find it as the subject of a riddle on a site you go to for fun / escapism / whatever
Out of an abundance of caution I decided not to do a puzzle on the theme of today, though I've been known to do that for other occasions.
Transformation, inner space and body's grace
From the eastern belt, Beauty mesmerizes the complete space
Compilation between 200 bce and 200 CE was my base
Name me if you can:
I am a feeling , a joy and a beautiful place
Hint:
doorknob's designed the clues very well - most of the words in the clues could act as indicators of some sort and I remember for one of them, a word I was convinced was an anagram indicator was actually the definition.
Amazing clues: only advice is its a bit too hard :)
First understand that a child now can,
Soar into sky and fly.
To do so is fatiguing, not to the child who is squealing,
With merriment as they enjoy the ride.
For the answer above use the bottom two, put them together and you'll know what to do.
Firstly:
In her land is where you'll be,
Smack ...
Re: 26a... I was reading up on cryptic markers since I -understand- the solutions but can't find them, and the fellow noted that sometimes things can do double duty.
I am a five letters word, find,
a part of me when digging around.
Remove the first and last letters,
to become a First Person Shooter.
Remove the first two letters, and
I will handle versioning for better.
What I am?
Note: No partial answers please.
I never approach directly,
Yet I am most powerful up close.
I’ll make you choose ‘tween two lives;
Save one, the other dies.
I can jump without a body.
I can move without a mind.
Let me roam free and end up behind.
What am I?
9.1 - 03112011
9.5 - 05221960
8.6 - 03282005
?.? - 03281964
Can you find what should be the left side value for the 4th line?
Transformation, inner space and body's grace
From the eastern belt, Beauty mesmerizes the complete space
Compilation between 200 bce and 200 CE was my base
Name me if you can:
I am a feeling , a joy and a beautiful place
Hint:
