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."
Re:Of course, my first reaction was (Score:3, Informative)
Worms and computers (Score:1, Informative)
B. Hayes "In search of the optimal scumsucking bottomfeeder", American Scientist vol. 91, no. 5 pp392-396 (2003)
Other sites (Score:5, Informative)
There is more information on the games and rules at Sven's page [accessv.com], that includes a comparison of Chaffin's notation to Gardner's and a comparison of Worms to the Game of Life. [math.com]
STUPID FUCKING MODS (Score:1, Informative)
Idiots. Asshats. The lot of you.