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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. Wrong...this is older by Spoing · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Billy Og:
    2. "So, Mr. Pterodactyl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a -- " *CRUNCH*.
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  2. Computation by GrahamMastaFlash · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Isn't it amazing that a computer could compute in minutes what has taken humans thousands of years to solve? We're in a time in which the sheer calculating power of computers can predict stress and failure in complex structures (FEA), lift and drag of fluid flows (CFD), and even the way a polypeptide will fold into a protein.

    If computers can do all this and solve puzzles that have plagued our minds for centuries, where will the limit be? Perhaps one day the effect of a drug in a patient or the release of software into a market will be fully simulated through computation.

    We will soon be replacing our market analysits and physicians with programmers!

    1. 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. WRONG by Izanagi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every one knows the world's oldest unsolved puzzle involves women!!

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  4. Thanks for nothing! by breon.halling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for ruining it for me! I'd only made it to the 535th solution! =p

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