> At every count, each soldier looks at their neighbors, considers what they themselves were already doing, and decides what to do next, completely according to

> At every count, each soldier looks at their neighbors, considers what they themselves were already doing, and decides what to do next, completely according to what they see. Anyone else think this is an incredibly ugly problem statement? It's like they thought firing squads were cool and tried to shoehorn the problem into it any way they could.