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Challenge: Burning Strings

You have matches and two strings.
Each string takes exactly 1 hour to burn, but the burn rate is not linear.

How can you measure exactly 45 minutes?

(Thanks to Ed Severn for this problem.)

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 7, 2007