Talk:100 prisoners

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Revision as of 20:30, 5 November 2019 by rosettacode>Gerard Schildberger (→‎big speed up: negated use of italics for "I".)

Wikipedia link?

Despite the heading on the task page claiming otherwise, there does not appear to be a wikipedia entry for "100 prisoners" --Thundergnat (talk) 00:56, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Fixed.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 19:04, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

big speed up

Thanks to (userid)   Craigd   (using zkl),   his observation/optimization of:       if one prisoner fails, they all do.

A big decrease in time used.


It's programmers like Craigd that make me say:       Damn!     Why didn't   I   think of that ?!?!     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:28, 5 November 2019 (UTC)