(task) Here's Waldo

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> Date: February 10, 2015 at 8:55:22 PM EST
> From: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> To: hurlburt@md.metrocast.net, michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com
> Subject: Here's Waldo
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> George / Mike
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> For your computational amusement . . .
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> There are so many possible arrangements that even if finding Waldo became an international priority and the world banded together to dedicate the 8.25 million computing cores from the world’s 10 largest supercomputers to the job, it would still take ~9.53 x 1077 years — about 6.35 x 1067x longer than the universe has existed — to exhaustively evaluate all possible combinations . . . Thankfully, there are algorithms out there that can compute a solution in minutes.
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> Science finds Waldo, simultaneously destroys everyone's childhood
> http://mashable.com/2015/02/10/wheres-waldo-algorithm/
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> Here’s Waldo: Computing the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo
> http://www.randalolson.com/2015/02/03/heres-waldo-computing-the-optimal-search-strategy-for-finding-waldo/
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> : )
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> Kathy