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16-year old solves newton's 300 year old riddle
- heeton 14y agoWithout actual news of his answer it's a rather boring story :P In other news: my friend's baby invented cold fusion this morning.
- Semaphor 14y agoHis answer is 15 pages long and he left out explanations of steps so he wouldn't go over the limit set by Jugend forscht (youth researches). I'd assume they'll give it a work over before releasing it.
- blue_nerd 14y agoSomeone found this solution? I would love to see it.
- politician 14y agoOn this Memorial Day weekend, a military-themed example of how an analytic solution could improve a computed solution: "The US army in Korea is equipped with Paladin anti-artillery guns that can trace enemy shells back to the guns and fire shells at the enemy guns with pin-point accuracy. However, it takes for the Paladins about 10 min to locate the enemy guns, during which time the Paladins would be targeted by the enemy guns Gen. Thomas A Schwartz, a former US army commander in Korea, stated that the US army in Korea would be destroyed in less than three hours." http://www.rense.com/general37/nkorr.htm http://www.rense.com/general37/nkorr.htm
- tosseraccount 14y ago"... calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance". One would think that an approximate solution would be good enough. How accurate does a projectile have to be, especially a nuke?
- ColinWright 14y agoLots of reports from lots of sources, and no details ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676 <- Lots of comments, no substance, now dead. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756 <- Observing there are no details anywhere http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599 <- Ditto.