Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching 173
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."
Chaffin solves Patterson's Worms... (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, my first reaction was (Score:2, Funny)
Then I read the article. These worms, then - they're basically more complex versions of the Game of Life, right?
trippy (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Or... (Score:5, Funny)
Run this on Big Mac (Score:4, Funny)
If he's saying that the 2 worms hit the end of the 1.57million^2 grid, in a non-repeating pattern, that's pretty neato. We must know where it ends! Put it on Big Mac, make the grid bigger, and call it iWorms.
Oh no (Score:3, Funny)