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Four Travelers Problem


Let four lines in a plane represent four roads in general position, and let one traveler T_i be walking along each road at a constant (but not necessarily equal to any other traveler's) speed. Say that two travelers T_i and T_j have "met" if they were simultaneously at the intersection of their two roads. Then if T_1 has met all other three travelers (T_2, T_3, and T_4) and T_2, in addition to meeting T_1, has met T_3 and T_4, then T_3 and T_4 have also met!


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Bogomolny, A. "Four Travellers Problem." http://www.cut-the-knot.org/gproblems.shtml.

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Four Travelers Problem

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Four Travelers Problem." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourTravelersProblem.html

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