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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

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Georgia ANew York10101030EMH
KentuckyNorth Carolina0000
Texas AWashington1010020EM
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✕618.33100%50%33%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓323.33100%67%67%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓415.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓524.00100%60%80%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓320.00100%100%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓420.00100%100%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓516.0080%60%20%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓821.25100%75%38%