Re: A Problem To Solve :-)

On 3/28/24 18:03, Physfitfreak wrote:

By the time he at last spotted that jewel of a note, and checked the accuracy, it was past midnight and Long John Silvers was closed, and the next day would give him by all probability another challenge, not this one.
 So it was three fish fillets and huge coleslaw, again nommo.
 But he got to have an appreciation for the significance of that little note, and the fact that only God knew how Ramanujan, before even he knew of its existence, came to find it!
   

He hit the sack hungry. But he'd wake up to an eating day, so... not that bad after all.
As he was looking at the ceiling's skylights, a moment later he came to himself and began hearing several aircraft flying close, making tremendous noise. What was going on?... He made an attempt to get up and go outside the house to take a look but he saw that he was not in bed, but in a Houthi launch site! The bombers were Americans and the British, the usual culprits.
A Houthi came to him and said,
Houthi:   "These  missiles can track up to five jets and predict their locations continuously. But we have various warheads on our missiles and some of them are powerful enough to  damage an aircraft critically enough from a great distance  So we'd like to damage or destroy more than one fighter jet with each missile. Can you create an additional software for these missiles which could damage at least 2 and at most 5 fighter jets by itself?"
Physfit thought to himsel, "That would require a bit more than my dick can handle." Then said,
Physfit:  "Can the missile adjust its own track and speed so it could get to a certain point after a certain amount of time passed?"
Houthi:   "Yes, within limits of course. If it computes it can get there it automatically launches itself, and if not, then it'll wait for other chances."
Physfit:  "Great. Give me a little time and I'll come up with that additional software to be used as a subroutine for what it already has on itself."
Houthi:   "Enshallah!... :-))"
Physfit:  "Enshallah... :)"
If the missile computes that 5 fighter jets at time t will exactly be at these coordinates in the sky:
Jet 1: (4.38 km, 3.9 km, 8.1 km)
Jet 2: (5.23 km, 9.61 km, 4.74 km)
Jet 3: (6.93 km, 6.01 km, 6.88 km)
Jet 4: (8.32 km, 2.12 km, 2.5 km)
Jet 5: (2.53 km, 4.23 km, 5.82 km)
then answer the following 2 questions:
1- what would be the coordinates of the point in the sky, that the missile with the weakest warhead needs to explode at, at time t, to damage all those 5 fighter jets critically enough?
2- within what minimum radius of that explosion, any fighter jet would get critically damaged at time t?