"Let me tell you a story," says Jacki Renquist as she leads Kent Dockland through the Logidyne Labs complex. "This happened during my grandfather's time."
"The great explorer, Abernathy Gould, came to western edge of a vast desert. She had with her her eight stalwart companions. Each of the nine travellers was driving an all-terrain car capable of travelling forty miles to the gallon - which was also the capacity of their cars' petrol tanks."
"When they reached the western edge of the desert, every car had a full tank of petrol, and each car carried nine extra gallon tins of petrol (that being the largest number of tins a single car was capable of carrying)."
"Under Gould's leadership, the nine travellers set out in a straight line east across the desert with the aim of Gould travelling the furthest distance east that she could manage, in the hope of finding.... something. All nine travellers returned safely, along with their cars, to the western edge of the desert at the conclusion of the journey. No additional petrol was acquired during the journey, no petrol was left unattended in the desert for any length of time (or, for that matter, with a car or driver to guard it), and none of the explorers travelled any distance on foot (as a journey on foot through the desert was said to spell certain death)."
"Gould later claimed that the distance she travelled into the desert was the greatest distance she could have achieved under the circumstances - which is lucky, as she only barely found what she was looking for."
Assuming Gould's claim is correct, how far east did she travel?
"The great explorer, Abernathy Gould, came to western edge of a vast desert. She had with her her eight stalwart companions. Each of the nine travellers was driving an all-terrain car capable of travelling forty miles to the gallon - which was also the capacity of their cars' petrol tanks."
"When they reached the western edge of the desert, every car had a full tank of petrol, and each car carried nine extra gallon tins of petrol (that being the largest number of tins a single car was capable of carrying)."
"Under Gould's leadership, the nine travellers set out in a straight line east across the desert with the aim of Gould travelling the furthest distance east that she could manage, in the hope of finding.... something. All nine travellers returned safely, along with their cars, to the western edge of the desert at the conclusion of the journey. No additional petrol was acquired during the journey, no petrol was left unattended in the desert for any length of time (or, for that matter, with a car or driver to guard it), and none of the explorers travelled any distance on foot (as a journey on foot through the desert was said to spell certain death)."
"Gould later claimed that the distance she travelled into the desert was the greatest distance she could have achieved under the circumstances - which is lucky, as she only barely found what she was looking for."
Assuming Gould's claim is correct, how far east did she travel?
