Timeline for 11 cyclists in a race
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 26, 2023 at 16:12 | comment | added | Sextus Empiricus | The problem is that you are speeding the 20, 19 and 18 by too much, ending up with 16 and 17 riding individually. You should be able to redistribute the groups such that it are faster cyclists that ride individually. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 8:21 | comment | added | Jaap Scherphuis | @justhalf Because 11 people can form at most 3 teams of triplets. The error lies in assuming that 17 can't be in the same triplet as one of 18,19,20 and still finish in less than 17 minutes. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 5:12 | comment | added | justhalf | "because once we've sped up the ones who take 20 and 19 and 18 minutes, we can't form any more triplets." why can't you make 17 go to form another triple? how about 16? | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 2:33 | comment | added | Dmitry Kamenetsky | This is a good start, but you can do better. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 2:24 | history | answered | Ed Murphy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |