Re:Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've e...
by wincy on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:26AM
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So this would be more of a labyrinth than a maze?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've e...
by cyphar on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:01AM
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No, a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends. Both must have an entry and exit point (technically mazes may have more than one exit and entry, but most don't).
Re:Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've e...
by Someone on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:31PM
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That’s open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth:
”Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns
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both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze
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In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two.”