Trivia

A cylindrical tower, 100 meters high, has an inside elevator. Around the tower's outside is a helical stairway that has a constant theta angle of 60 degrees with the vertical. The tower's diameter is 13 meters.

One day Mr. and Mrs. Pizza rode the elevator to the observation deck at the top of the tower. Their son, Tomato Pizza, climbed the stairway all the way from the bottom to the top. When he arrived at the observation deck he was breathing heavily.

"No wonder you're beat, son," said Mr. Pizza. "You must have gone four times the distance we did. And you did it all on foot."

"You're wrong, Dad," said Tom. "I only went twice as far."

Who was right, Tom or his father? Tom

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