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World's Oldest Puzzle Solved

Posted by Cliff on from the lasting-longer-than-rubik's-cube dept.

An anonymous reader observes: "The Loculus of Archimedes, the world's oldest puzzle, has been solved. It has 536 solutions. You can find the details here."

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  1. Re:Computation by kommakazi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only catch is that we humans have to have a pretty good understanding of a problem/puzzle/whatever in the first place in order to program a computer to solve it. The limit still really is us humans, that is unless we develop true AI, which I really think is impossible because of what I just said.

  2. Re:Computation by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't it amazing that a computer could compute in minutes what has taken humans thousands of years to solve?

    And yet humans can solve in minutes some things which a computer couldn't solve in a thousand years.

  3. Do as I say, not as I do. by Syncdata · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would probably help your cause if you commented on the article, and posted your take on it, rather then engaging in an offtopic rant against the people you're so pissed off about. You could actually be engaging in thoughtful discourse, rather than furthering the problem that so vexes you.
    This is just as offtopic as the parent, and I was going to post anon, but fsck it. Put it in your journal pally.

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    "Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean