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.
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