[chbot] Choc Fish Challenge #5

[Nathan Kennedy]

You don't mention if the cable has to be straight (although I can't imagine
a 300 wire cable being very flexible).

If you were to arrange the cable in a circle, you could test one strand at a
time, completing the circuit with a much shorter wire.

Nathan.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Synco Reynders <synco.reynders at gmail.com>wrote:

> So just when you thought you'd solved the problem... your boss makes
> you do the 300 wire cable, however this cable in 10km long and you
> discover your battery/lamp test doesn't work if the wire length is
> more than 25km. Short of getting another battery etc... how would you
> identify/label every wire in the cable??
> Enjoy,
> /s
>
> On 5 September 2011 19:13, Cass Jones <jones.cass at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh, looks like my email got bounced for being too big so here's my
> > diagrams in an external link:
> >
> > http://cass64.fileave.com/phone_exchange_solution.png
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Cass Jones <jones.cass at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Conveniently my example uses 8 wires, so it can be demonstrated with cat
> 5
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Cass Jones <jones.cass at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I may not have been clear enough, I've drawn instructions with
> >>> diagrams, attached to this email.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Synco Reynders <
> synco.reynders at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I was confused why you'd leave 2 unpaired wire in the first place? Yet
> >>>> alone trying to find them.
> >>>> /s
> >
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