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  1. CaptainEd
    Oh well, here’s an upper bound, as it’s an easy answer:
  2. CaptainEd
    Thanks for pruning unnecessary instructions.
  3. CaptainEd
    Harey, I’m with you: there’s a crazy number of possible mazes just in n=3. I think I’ve got them covered:
  4. CaptainEd
    Harey, can we assume as Molly Mae did, that there is no maze, but only a simple path? I assumed otherwise, that it can be a maze, so I imagined a figure H, with only two cells with cement (top center and bottom center).
  5. CaptainEd
    I must be wrong, imagine a capital H in a 3x3 grid. How do I get to the crossbar? Any Down or Up would take me to the bottom or top of the left vertical bar, with no way to stop in the middle. So, now I guess that each instruction moves the robots either 0 or 1 spaces.
  6. CaptainEd
    I gather that when it sees Left, it goes as far left as possible until it hits cement.
  7. CaptainEd
    Oops! Good point!
  8. CaptainEd
    Naive again
  9. CaptainEd
    Nice approach, Molly Mae!
  10. CaptainEd
    Naively:
  11. CaptainEd
    Perhaps your question may hinge on the source of variability. Pistol has 5-7. In any skirmish, is the choice between 5, 6, 7 made by the program randomly? Or does it depend upon distance to target? Or visibility ( like heavy, light or no fog)? And, as Pickett points out, damage radius is a key parameter of the Dupuy lethality index.
  12. CaptainEd
    My first answer:
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  14. CaptainEd
    Fuzzy thoughts:
  15. CaptainEd
    Oops, scoots/jumps count adjustments and comment on bonus question
  16. CaptainEd
    First question:
  17. CaptainEd
    Last card red might not be a good backup plan
  18. CaptainEd
    Or is it counterbalanced by the last card?
  19. CaptainEd
    I see, I didn’t pay attention. I really want to count only segments that are surrounded by shorter segments.
  20. CaptainEd
    Thank you for the kind words, Bonanova. I fear my answer to this one is not so brilliant.
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  22. CaptainEd
    Here’s my attempt at an analytical solution
  23. CaptainEd
    Ok I tried using random numbers, got a fraction...
  24. CaptainEd
    Proof of my claim...
  25. CaptainEd
    Better still...
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