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    11 months ago

    Wolf-goat-cabbage problem. You gotta keep 'em separated.

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        11 months ago

        “River crossing puzzle” is apparently the generic term.

        And it’s at least thirteen centuries old.

        And it maps to the vertex cover problem, so it’s NP-complete? Wow, okay. All around the world we’re doing computer science by accident.