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Magic: The Gathering Fans Harness Prime Number Puzzle as a Game Strategy

scientificamerican.com

10 points by bobismyuncle a year ago · 3 comments

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zahlman a year ago

The title seems wrong. This isn't in any meaningful sense a viable strategy, nor is the "puzzle" (conjecture, formally) being "harnessed" - rather, the brute-force calculation that would be used to verify it, is being simulated.

pcwalton a year ago

I'm surprised that the article didn't mention that Richard Garfield (creator of Magic) himself has a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics. I imagine that, if he's aware of this, that he'd get a kick out of it.

bobismyuncleOP a year ago

https://archive.md/BRpIY

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