Comments on: DG. Ants on a Rod http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2007/12/26/dg-ants-on-a-rod/ The Math Factor Podcast Site Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jlundell http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2007/12/26/dg-ants-on-a-rod/#comment-177 jlundell Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:33:20 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2007/12/26/dg-ants-on-a-rod/#comment-177 100 seconds, the simplifying insight being that, for our purposes, the collision behavior of the ants is equivalent to the ants simply passing each other and swapping name tags. The minimum time approaches zero as the minimum ant-to-ant spacing approaches zero (and since this is a math puzzle, we can presumably treat the ants as dimensionless points). 100 seconds, the simplifying insight being that, for our purposes, the collision behavior of the ants is equivalent to the ants simply passing each other and swapping name tags.

The minimum time approaches zero as the minimum ant-to-ant spacing approaches zero (and since this is a math puzzle, we can presumably treat the ants as dimensionless points).

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