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In the missionaries and cannibals problem, three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a boat which can carry at most two people, under the constraint that, for both banks, if there are missionaries present on the bank, they cannot be outnumbered by cannibals (if they were, the cannibals would eat the missionaries).
This is similar to the missionaries and cannibals problem, in which three missionaries and three cannibals must cross the river, with the constraint that at any time when both missionaries and cannibals are standing on either bank, the cannibals on that bank may not outnumber the missionaries. The bridge and torch problem. Propositio de viro et ...
The problem considered by McCarthy was not that of finding a sequence of steps to reach the goal (the article on the missionaries and cannibals problem contains one such solution), but rather that of excluding conditions that are not explicitly stated. For example, the solution "go half a mile south and cross the river on the bridge" is ...
Photos of cannibals around the world: In India, exiled Aghori monks of Varanasi drink from human skulls and eat human flesh as part of their rituals to find spiritual enlightenment.
DeepNorth 04:34, 3 August 2014 (UTC) Graphic of solution to Jealous Husbands River Crossing Problem. It would be nice to have a better description of how to cross the river. The sequence of numerical triplets is a bit too terse for easy comprehension. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsspiegel (talk • contribs) 08:43, 22 June 2006
A U.S. missionary couple was shot and killed along with a third person by gang members in Haiti's capital, police and a religious group say. Young missionary couple from U.S. among 3 killed by ...
Missionaries and cannibals problem; Monkey and banana problem; MU puzzle; Mutilated chessboard problem; N. Nikoli (publisher) Nonogram; Numberlink; Nurikabe (puzzle) O.
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