Forty-Five Minutes of Incense
You have two sticks of temple incense and a lighter, and no clock of any kind. Each stick takes exactly one hour to burn from one end to the other, but the material is packed unevenly along its length, so equal lengths need not take equal times — and the two sticks differ from each other. How do you measure exactly minutes?
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