Re: navigation riddle

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

> The questions are:
>
> 1) Where is Point A?

""" Point A is directly above the earth's geographic north pole.

> 2) Are you sure?

*** I'm not sure. John Denker would not ose this problem if the obvious
answer was not so obvious.

 How do you know?

*** I recall a similar problem that was posed about
70 years ago when airships were still flying.

Herb
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>
> Usual ground-rules:  The right answer depends on
> understanding the physics of the situation.  This may
> require some outside-the-box thinking.  Everything
> I've said is intended to be true and helpful.  I expect
> a strong consensus as to the correctness of the answer.


Herb Gottlieb from New York City
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