Sunday, December 31, 2017

Congratulations Vietnam

As General William DePuy told the French general who said the South Vietnamese were incapable of fighting : "They kicked your ass at Dien Bien Phu!"

Congratulations and congratulations Korea! Again!

China as reliable as ever. And congratulations India on picking up the pace going the other way - out of the top-50 now. Behind Saudi, Bangladesh, Peru..

CountryTeam sizeP1P2P3P4P5P6TotalRankAwardsLeaderDeputy leader
AllMFGSBHM
Republic of Korea6514239142222417016000Yongjin SongSuyoung Choi
People's Republic of China664225042193115925100Yijun YaoSihui Zhang
Vietnam664236042211415534110Anh Vinh LêBá Khánh Trình Lê
United States of America664229042231214843300Po-Shen LohBrian Lawrence
Islamic Republic of Iran66423204217914252310Omid Hatami VarzanehSeyed Hesam Firouzi
Japan66412104223713462220Yasuo MoritaKeiko Tasaki
Singapore66422603722413172121Yan Loi WongXinghuan Ai
Contestant [][←]CountryP1P2P3P4P5P6TotalRankAward
Amirmojtaba SabourIslamic Republic of Iran770777351Gold medal
Yuta TakayaJapan770777351Gold medal
Hữu Quốc Huy HoàngVietnam770777351Gold medal
Qiuyu RenPeople's Republic of China770774324Gold medal
Aleksandre SaatashviliGeorgia770773315Gold medal
James LinUnited States of America770772306Gold medal

Are you, like me, wondering what was so tricky about Problem 3? (I'm clueless, ICYW). Nice variation on the curve of pursuit problem I first saw in Brilliant Tutorials (lifted from Irodov).

Problem 3. A hunter and an invisible rabbit play a game in the Euclidean plane. The rabbit’s starting point, A0, and the hunter’s starting point, B0, are the same. After n−1 rounds of the game, the rabbit is at point An−1 and the hunter is at point Bn−1.

In the n th round of the game, three things occur in order.
(i) The rabbit moves invisibly to a point An such that the distance between An−1 and An is exactly 1.
(ii) A tracking device reports a point Pn to the hunter. The only guarantee provided by the tracking device to the hunter is that the distance between Pn and An is at most 1.

(iii) The hunter moves visibly to a point Bn such that the distance between Bn−1 and Bn is exactly 1.

Is it always possible, no matter how the rabbit moves, and no matter what points are reported by the tracking device, for the hunter to choose her moves so that after 109 rounds she can ensure that the distance between her and the rabbit is at most 100?

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