Mathematical games

[vvvexation]

No doubt at least a few of y'all will find this interesting: Apparently Minesweeper is NP-complete. Not only that, but you can use it to build logic gates.

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[stollman.livejournal.com]

Revelation!

I appear to have been outgeeked, or at least out-nitpicked.

Thank you! I now realize that there are a large number of people who equate the two, to one degree or another, and I've been confused on a number of occasions because they do and I don't, and didn't know what I didn't know.

Ok, Captain Morgan probably has something to do with it, if that makes no sense.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yow. Come to think of it, I hadn't really thought to make the distinction in those terms myself till just now.

We are enlightened! Yay!