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Comments on Puzzle #20928: WCP #124 The solution
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)

peek at solution       solve puzzle
  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: line logic only  

Puzzle Description:

is within the clues.

#1: Jota (jota) on Jan 20, 2013

Redistribute world countries?
Thanks for your entry Brain!
#2: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 20, 2013
wow
#3: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 20, 2013
Original and fun solve.
#4: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 20, 2013
I enjoyed the solve. But I am not sure I "get it." Could you elaborate please, Brian.
#5: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 20, 2013 [SPOILER]
The horizontal clues should look familiar and it is no coincidence they make a circle.
#6: Julianna (JuliClarinet2) on Jan 20, 2013 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Pi! Brilliant!
#7: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 20, 2013 [SPOILER]
I just realized that if you use the peek at solution feature you don't get the clues. That won't help at all.
#8: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 20, 2013
#9: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 20, 2013
Truly amazing.

Click on solve puzzle, then you can back up to this page.
#10: Jota (jota) on Jan 21, 2013
Thanks Julianna! I was too dense I guess.
#11: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 21, 2013
Oh! Very cool, Brian!
#12: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Jan 22, 2013 [SPOILER]
Say it with me, kids: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

On a more apropos note, here's a lovely ditty by Kate Bush that has some similarly familiar lyrics:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=kZSHr5E7fZY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DkZSHr5E7fZY
(Skip to 1:49 if you want to go straight to the digits. She continues the string at later points, but I don't feel like listening to all 9 minutes just to note the times) :)
#13: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jan 23, 2013 [SPOILER]
For the math nerds among us, a diatribe on why pi's wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ

(Wrong not mathematically, but conceptually.)
#14: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 23, 2013
I am on board Joe. I'll have to remember to celebrate tau day. Maybe I should make a new puzzle.
#15: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Jan 24, 2013
That was a beautiful video.
#16: Jan Wolter (jan) on Sep 18, 2013
Here's a counter-diatribe about why pi is wrong, but tau is wrong too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qpVdwizdvI

And this one argues that pi is right after all: http://www.thepimanifesto.com/
#17: Gary Webster (glwebste) on Mar 9, 2018
What Tom said. Wow. Brilliant!
#18: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Mar 9, 2018
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#19: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 27, 2018
I made almost the same puzzle a year later having forgotten this one, I guess. Puzzle #23747.

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