Tag: Mathematical Sciences
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Demystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory
The game Wordle took the world by storm last year – you might have seen your friends posting green and yellow boxes on social media, claiming that they have solved this daily word puzzle in three guesses, or that dreaded “X/6,” which means that they didn’t manage to crack it. When one considers what first word to guess, it might be tempting to randomly put a five-letter word at the beginning, but this can actually be reduced to a scientific question…
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Demystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory
The game Wordle took the world by storm last year – you might have seen your friends posting green and yellow boxes on social media, claiming that they have solved this daily word puzzle in three guesses, or that dreaded “X/6,” which means that they didn’t manage to crack it. When one considers what first word to guess, it might be tempting to randomly put a five-letter word at the beginning, but this can actually be reduced to a scientific question…
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Wordle大揭秘：資訊理論101
上年網上遊戲Wordle的風潮席捲全球，大家的社交媒體好一陣子都被綠色、黃色和灰色的方格佔據。你可能見過朋友誇耀自己只猜了三次就已解開當天謎題，也有時會沮喪地抱怨當天只能以「X/6」飲恨作結，未能揭開當天謎底。當我們思考應用甚麼單字開始遊戲時，我們也許會很隨性地把一個五個字母長的任意單字填進空格，但其實這其實是一個科學問題…
