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World's Oldest Puzzle Solved

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 17, 2003 @04:20PM 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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Re:Computation by anthony_dipierro · 2003-11-17 18:49 · 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.