Packet 7: Bonus 8
Minecraft redstone surprisingly exhibits a property named for this mathematician because it can replicate the computational aspects of any other computer or computer language. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this British mathematician who cracked the Enigma code during World War II.
ANSWER: Alan Turing
[10m] In Minecraft, “repeaters” are analogous to these circuit elements. These devices are often made from a p-n junction and have no resistance in one direction and infinite resistance in the other.
ANSWER: diodes
[10h] Popular YouTube videos use redstone to model this function, which is incomputable since it involves solving the halting problem with Turing machines. This function with input 5 was recently calculated to be 47,176,870.
ANSWER: Busy Beaver function
<Science - Computer Science, Jonathan Ouyang> | VAULT II Packet 07
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 20.00 | 97% | 71% | 32% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✕ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 60% | 80% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 75% | 38% |