Test yourself with this week’s brainteaser for engineers.
Problem:
A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence. The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient. The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the earth was the best. The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?
Answer:
The mathematician trolled the other two.
How?
The engineer built a nice circular fence and claimed it was efficient. The physicist chose to make a long line fence of infinite length. He claimed that half the earth should be fenced off for best results. Ok so what about the mathematician? Well, this bold individual decided to build a fence around himself. He then claimed he was the outside of the fence. Clever.
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Posted August 23, 2019