Daily Cartoon + Games

(Guess a number, highway ant, build a story...)

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2. Game: Guess a number

  Enter a first guess:

1) Enter a range of numbers ("from" / "to"), 1b) Press "start", 

2) Choose a number inside that range, 2b) Press "guess".

See if it is the right one.

1 - Range of numbers (i.e. from 1 to 1000)
From:	To:
2 -Your guess

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  As long as your number is wrong, do new attempts:

1) Change the range accordingly to the message,

1b) Press "start",

2) Choose a new number,

2b) Press "guess"

See if it is the right number,

See how many attempts it took you to find the right one.

Click http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/www/ant/ant.html

 and then click "Run" at the bottom of the grid,

Then, see how the ant

- At first moves randomly,

- After one or a few minutes decides to build a highway.

This is the "Langton mathematical puzzle" or "Langton ant",

which until now nobody could explain and which gives a glimpse to what is a

"mathematical attractor" starting from chaos and leading

when crossing a "critical threshold" to self organization and emergence.