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Challenge 445: The Snark Hunt

A fun puzzle from KCLMS student Alex M!

(a) A snark starts at 0 on a number line. Every second it teleports a distance of N along the number line, where N is an unknown positive integer.

Every second, you choose a point on the number line. If you choose the snark's current location, you have caught it.

Can you come up with a strategy that will eventually catch the snark?

(b) As above, but now the snark starts at an unknown point S on the number line, where S is a positive integer.