Re: The n-knights problem

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:17:20 +0000 (UTC), russell kym horsell
<kym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

russell kym horsell <kym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Behaving cleverly is not, to my way of thinking, terribly clever itself.
If you're looking for some skeaky method that will miraculously find
the answers to problems your usual sneaky methods take a lot of time over
(aka "hard problems") you've just fallen for an Arrow Theorem trap, with
runtime as the utility function.

What Arrow Theorem has in common with problem discussed in this
thread?..

A.L.
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