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Reminded me of a problem set I was once assigned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_squad_synchronization_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_squad_
by basementcat 8y ago
Reminded me of a problem set I was once assigned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_squad_synchronization_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_squad_synchronization_p...
- uranium 8y agoNeat--I hadn't heard of that. The wave propagation makes me think back to the problem I was working on the first place.
- basementcat 8y agoThe nice property of the “firing squad” is that the number states is independent of the length of the firing squad.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoI had that one too. I ended up writing some code for it a few years later with a GUI so I could watch how the state changes propagated.