(And show your solution)
Puzzle TTT
200 views and no solutions???
Puzzle TTT
two hundred other things to do. i want to solve it, but just can't pick up a habitual puzzle like that
No nice solution occurs to me, so I brute forced it. I plotted the points on paper and drew circles of the various radii, e.g., for A I plotted 10.880 meters, 12.880 meters, etc.
After drawing a few circles from some of the points I saw that they were all intersecting near one spot, so that gave me integers to try. I put the resulting distances in least squares and found the best fit had residuals on the order of 1 mm.
I'll post values later, so as to not kill the incentive for others. I'll be very interested in a "proper" solution method.
T= North 636.0000, East 342.0006
Integer and distances from T:
a = 6 12.881
b = 8 17.054
c = 7 14.384
d = 6 13.791
e = 7 14.944
f = 5 10.865
So how were we supposed to do it?
Still need a solution method
I'm still waiting for a hi-brow solution method.
Still need a solution method
I solved it with CAD.
I noticed in your previous answer post that two actually 3of the answers are not technically correct. The marker must be an even number... 2 4 6 8 etc.
Still need a solution method
It depends on your definition of the integer. Mine are the integer number of 2-meter "cycle" distances, not the (even) number of meters you would read from the tape. The integers are multiplied by 2 meters and the reader distance is added to get the total distance.
How, more specifically, did you use CAD to solve it?
Still need a solution method
I placed the points with known coordinates and drew circles around them with radius of the "add" distances. I just started offsetting the circles 2 meters until they all intersected.