Firstly, Hi, found your show and have listened to all the back podcasts now to catch up. Yes I have quite a long drive some days. I’m in Bath in the UK by the way.

Secondly, the quick car trip question is false, since I can do the whole trip at 60 miles an hour 50 miles, fiftt mins) and never do 50 at all. In fact I could do 49 miles in 1 min and take the last 1 at a very lesuirely pace to do the time and distance.

Actually, in the real world, I’d allow 35 mins to do 50 miles as this is Europe – assuming a clear road and sleeping cops. (Which around here is often…)

We note:

Glad we’ve made your drives go by quicker!

Let’s see, even if you drove 49 miles in one minute (at a steady rate of 49 miles per minute) and then covered the rest in 49 minutes at (at a steady rate of 1/49 miles per minute) there’d still be the ten minute interval from 0:48 through 10:48 in which you’d drive exactly 10 miles!

(That is, you’d drive 1/5 of a minute at 49 mpm, and 49/5 minutes at 1/49 mpm, for a grand total of 10 miles)

So this would still work out!

Thanks for writing, and thanks for listening!

Chaim