Time for the solution to the ants on a line problem. The solution is actually stupidly simple, it really just is about one realization: Two pointlike ants bouncing off eachother is identical to two pointlike ants passing through eachother. At this point, you can easily see that there theoretical maximum is that you have an ant right on the left end initially walking to the right. No matter how the other ants are distributed, it will take exactly 100s for the last ant to fall off.
Pretty dumb puzzle, to be honest, but I thought it was a bit of a cute trick.
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Musings of a physicist, mostly on logic puzzles involving people wearing hats. However, I can't promise that I won't occasionally get sidetracked into ramblings on other math or physics.
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