Friday, 24 January 2014

visual - Odd-looking circle


A man is told to make a circle


He makes this:


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Where is the man?



Answer




In Manhattan, because that is what a "circle" (defined to be the set of points of a certain set distance d away from a given point) looks like when using the taxicab (or Manhattan) metric.



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