Magic: The Gathering Fans Harness Prime Number Puzzle as a Game Strategy
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Magic: The Gathering Fans Harness Prime Number Puzzle as a Game Strategy
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#2Re: Magic: The Gathering Fans Harness Prime Number Puzzle as a Game Strategy
#3The 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.
Re: Magic: The Gathering Fans Harness Prime Number Puzzle as a Game Strategy
#4I'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.