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This is probably written by people who don't have real-life experience with goats I guess. I cannot even concentrate on the problem since I keep coming back to
by skinkestek 6y ago
This is probably written by people who don't have real-life experience with goats I guess.
I cannot even concentrate on the problem since I keep coming back to what the goat will do:
- jump the fence
- chew the rope
- probably more
- yetihehe 6y agoIn such cases, it's best to assume it's a special zero dimensional point goat, which only chews grass.
- adwn 6y ago...in a vacuum.
- cgriswald 6y agoHow do you tie a zero dimensional point goat? How do you know he's in the fence at all? How does he chew the grass? Where does the grass go?
- tuatoru 6y agoAnd having discovered the goat, how do you put a tether on something with no size?
- WJW 6y agoYou'd need a special rope to tie it as well, in addition to low-dimensional fencing and specialized grass.
- thechao 6y agoLiterally every one of these questions pertains to real goats, too.
- morei 6y ago... are you serious? You use an infinitely thin rope of course! Slightly more seriously, you take the limit of a alpha-sized goat tied with an alpha-sized rope as alpha goes to zero from above.
- yetihehe 6y agoQ: How do you tie a zero dimensional point goat? A: With a line. Q: How do you know he's in the fence at all? A: From definition. Q: How does he chew the grass? A: Using axioms. Q: Where does the grass go? A: We need more grants^Wresearch to answer that.
- srathi 6y agoFirst, imagine a spherical cow!
- cgriswald 6y agoWhen I was a small child my parents took me to a petting zoo inside an amusement park. While an employee watched, the goat I had just fed started eating the shirt I was wearing. I was terrified. My parents, not wanting to hurt the goat looked to the employee for help. The employee said, "Yeah, they'll do that" and turned around, not concerned for me or for the goat. My parents eventually extricated my shirt and all was well. I have no idea why I was never afraid of goats (especially since I was afraid of trees for a period of about six months).
- yetihehe 6y agoYeah, goats will eat everything. Two goats chew film tape. One says: - This film is nice. - The book was better.
- skinkestek 6y agoAre you a Scandinavian or is this joke international? (Haven't heard it in 20 years though :)
- yetihehe 6y agoI'm from Poland. I've also heard it over 20 years ago.
- ufo 6y agoThe original statement of the problem talks about a horse. I wonder when it changed into a goat.
- throwaway889900 6y agoThe better question is what farmer has a circular fence and is actively tying livestock to said fence. The fence should be good enough!
- Someone 6y agoFTA: But in the 1960s, for mysterious reasons, goats started displacing horses in the grazing-problem literature — this despite the fact that goats, according to the mathematician Marshall Fraser, may be “too independent to submit to tethering.”