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74.7 The desert fox, a variation of the jeep problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

D. R. Westbrook
D. R. Westbrook*
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 74 , Issue 467 , March 1990 , pp. 49 - 50
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1990

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