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arXiv:2407.07246cs.CC

Coordinating "7 Billion Humans" is hard

Alessandro Panconesi, Pietro Maria Posta, Mirko Giacchini

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Abstract

In the video game "7 Billion Humans", the player is requested to direct a group of workers to various destinations by writing a program that is executed simultaneously on each worker. While the game is quite rich and, indeed, it is considered one of the best games for beginners to learn the basics of programming, we show that even extremely simple versions are already NP-Hard or PSPACE-Hard.

arXiv comments
Preliminary version appeared at FUN (2024)
Journal reference
International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN), 2024
DOI
doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2024.26
Subjects
cs.CCComputational Complexity

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