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Milton the Miner loaded up his mule one fine Wednesday morning, with silver ore dug from his mining claim high up in a lonely canyon, and headed down to town. The mule was obstinate and the load heavy, so he didn't get into town until late.
The next morning he sold his ore at the assay office, loaded the mule with freshly bought victuals and supplies, and headed back up the same trail to his claim. The mule, though still laden, was eager to get back to its now familiar home and trotted along happily, so that Milton was snug in his blanket by the fire come sundown.
Today's challenge: Prove that there is exactly one spot on the trail that Milton and his mule passed at the same time on both Wednesday and Thursday.

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7 March 2004: Platonic Realms is pleased to announce that we have now made select resources available for download, including The Game of Hex, our humor collection Nowhere Dense, and Mathmo Downloadable Graph Paper. Each is available for a nominal download fee, in association with Amazon.com. Check out all our offerings at the Downloadables Page.

2 February 2004: Congratulations to our principle sponsor, Design Science Inc., on the success of MathType 5 for Windows and Macintosh, and on their outstanding products WebEQ and MathPlayer. MathType is a full-blooded equation editor that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, Web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. We at Platonic Realms are very impressed with the new features, especially the outstanding translators for TeX and MathML, and the full support given to preparing display equations for HTML. In fact, MathType 5 for Windows enables you to save an entire Word document as a Web page, with equations that print and display beautifully. By contrast, WebEQ is a complete development environment for putting interactive math on the web, including editing and publishing tools and a Java library for creating point-and-click, interactive math applications within your very own web pages. Finally, the MathPlayer plug-in allows browsers to render MathML encoded equations and notation.
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23 August 2001: If you love quotes, you’ll be pleased to know that the newly redesigned Platonic Realms Interactive Database of Math Quotes is both intuitive and convenient to use. Browse our growing collection of over 300 math-related quotes by author or topic, or search the entire database on a phrase or key-string. We look forward to hearing our visitors’ comments on the new format.

18 July 2001: The PRIME Mathematics Encyclopedia has been completely redesigned and updated to provide quicker, more reliable access and more readable pages. We used many suggestions from our visitors in crafting the new design. Please let us know what you think!

10 April 2001: We've added a whole page of math humor, with jokes, puns, limericks and more from our new e-book collection, Nowhere Dense. The material on the page is rotated daily, and you can also find out more about the book – just visit our new math humor page now!





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