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> all mazes being two pieces This is true for mazes with only one path from start to end. Each additional path necessitates a separate piece (path permutations

• jeanlucas 4y ago
  He says that in the video...
• Moissanite 4y ago
  > mazes with only one path from start to end One of my favourite bits of trivia: it is this property (being "unicursal") which leads to a maze being more specifically characterized as a labyrinth.
  • moefh 4y ago
    That's interesting, but it's a weird definition. In the myth of the Minotaur, the labyrinth Theseus is trapped in surely must have branches (or he wouldn't need a ball of thread), so it doesn't fit this definition. Wikipedia[1] also notes this contradiction: > Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as visual representations of the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth
    • Moissanite 4y ago
      You could say the English language is... Puts on sunglasses A-maze-ing.