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Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching

Posted by michael on from the get-a-bigger-hammer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thirty years ago, Martin Gardner described Paterson's Worms to the world. Just recently, Benjamin Chaffin, one of the designers of the Pentium 4 chip, managed to trace a couple trillion steps of the 'unsolved' worms, and has pretty much solved all but two of them."

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  1. trippy by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 4, Funny

    After reading the article, I'm left scratching my head about what this really means and how it might be useful in every day life.

    The obvious answer is that the worms are psychodelic. Those are some "trippy ass worms", as can be concluded from the illustrations in the article. Those worms are on acid.

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  2. Or... by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another great background for that monitor that can do 30000x40000.

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