Tag: puzzles
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The Ant’s Lament
A song to highlight the totally unfair situations faced by ants in puzzles like the ant on the rubber band. Music and lyrics by me, pictures by Ayliean MacDonald.
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The Ant on the Rubber Band
A classic puzzle* goes like this: Imagine a one-metre length of rubber band, with an ant at one end. The ant starts walking towards the other end of the band, at a speed of 1 cm/s. At the end of each second the band is instantly and uniformly stretched by 1 m. Will the ant…