"If nothing else, I'm impressed by your sheer bloodymindedness."

[orb2069]

About sixty-five million years ago(Spring '08 semester?), I was doing some homework for my Foundations of CS class, and I stumbled across this problem:48.7: Mouse and cheese. A block of cheese is made up of 3x3x3 cubes as in the figure (Imagine a rubik's cube). Is it possible for a mouse to tunnel it's way through this block of cheese by (a)

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[amblinwiseass]

See, shit like this is why I'm not a computer scientist.

[orb2069]

I can totally understand not loving this stuff. Nothing has made me come closer to becoming a janitor than some of these problems...

[amblinwiseass]

...Oh, it's not that I don't love it! I just don't grasp it, not intuitively, the way all the people I know who are computer scientists seem capable of doing. A more accurate way of phrasing my earlier comment would've been "See, not being able to figure out shit like this very well is why I'm not a computer scientist."

[orb2069]

...You do realize this took me, like, 30 hours worth of work to come up with?

[amblinwiseass]

...hey, what happened to all my italics?