I’m sure pirates knew the answer. Probably fighter pilots as well.

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    8 months ago

    I agree they aren’t practically interesting egde cases, because in order to hit them, they’re no longer meaningful for realistically describing pirate ships. At very high turning speeds, it also ceases to matter that one is 3/4 than that the other either. But at that point, we’re talking about pirate ships spinning like ballerinas across the seven seas.

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      8 months ago

      Feel free to extend that problem to fighter jets or ballerinas playing tag 😆

      However, I’m pretty sure it’s already solved. Doesn’t seem difficult to prove and has had applications for centuries already. And I’ve played the Robots Game when I was 12 or something…