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Re:How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [v... by neitherboosh on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:29AM (#28195197)
The posted solution seems to work even when the objects have zero area, and are just points in space. If you just surrounded the target with 16 points, there would either be gaps or the points would be infinitesimally close to the target and would occupy the same space.
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Re:How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [v... by ric2b on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @07:48PM (#28228678)
So that means that any possible laser coming out of the shooter's position eventually passes through one of these 16 specific infinitesimally small points _before_ ever hitting the target? And that is always possible for any position of shooter and target? That's bonkers, wow.
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