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2006-06-12 04:52 pm
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polar explorer problem

A polar explorer walks 1km South, then 1km East, then 1 km North to end up at the point where he started. Where can he be? How many places (solutions) are there? Can you prove it?

Comments will be screened: spoilers won't be published (at least for a while).

(As usual, my interest here is cognitive: how do people form mathematical beliefs?)