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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. Great but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what can I do about my worms? I was using linux for 24/7 and I crapped myself 13 times, and worms grew all over

  2. worms? by crumbz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I remember Worms the EA game for the C-64. Apart from that, I have diarrhea.

    Yuck.

  3. Re:first pr0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fail it just like you fail everything else. YOU = FAILURE!!!

  4. Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 56 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 56 by not-my-real-name · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I've lost count. How many times has he died so far?

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  5. Welcome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one would like to welcome our new worm overlords.

  6. Another way to watch worms die... by lewko · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Uh oh!

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  7. Re:Worms and computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "In search of the optimal scumsucking bottomfeeder",

    They published an article about the gay love triangle between hemos, cowboyneal, and cmdrtaco?