Joho the Blog » bees http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Have you heard the one about the bees and the traveling salesman? http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/10/28/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-bees-and-the-traveling-salesman/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/10/28/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-bees-and-the-traveling-salesman/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:42:49 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=9935 This is just too cool.

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a problem famous for being unintuitively difficult. The question is how you find the most efficient path among multiple geometric points. Sounds easy? With not too many destinations, it becomes outrageously difficult.

Except for bees.

]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/10/28/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-bees-and-the-traveling-salesman/feed/ 1 Order of Magnitude Puzzle: Bees per gallon http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/09/19/order-of-magnitude-puzzle-bees-per-gallon/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/09/19/order-of-magnitude-puzzle-bees-per-gallon/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:59:31 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/09/19/order-of-magnitude-puzzle-bees-per-gallon/ You win an Order of Magnitude puzzle if your answer is within an order of magnitude of the right answer. On the other hand, you don’t actually win anything. So, here goes:

How many bees do you think are in a pound? (And isn’t the answer none if they’re all flying?)

How many bees per gallon?

The answer is in the comments. (Note: This is not a computation WolframAlpha can help you with.)

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