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The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity
Physicist Lev Landau used to play a mental game with Soviet license plates [1]. The plates had the form of two digits, a dash, two more digits, and some letters. Rules of the game His game was to apply high school math operators to the numbers on both side of the dash so that the
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| Feb 3, 2019 | The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity by weinzierl | 168 | 32 |
