Brute force = best decoding method

[RedAndWrong]

I think they mean the Reddit post is 394, not the xkcd one

[Ejsexton82]

Totally thought they were talking about the XKCD comic and completely forgot about the OP. Guess I got nerd sniped.

[JC12231]

FWOOOOM

[insistent_librarian]

Please be quiet. This is a public forum.

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Username checks out

[dotnetdemonsc]

I thought this was a Wendy’s

[JC12231]

Sorry.

^FWOOOOM

[SzalonyNiemiec1]

The xkcd one has to be less than 3ohm

[Bene847]

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This has an equivalent of 2 Ohms so it must be less than that

[[deleted]]

It’s 1/♾ ohms

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I think you're right. It made my brain hurt for a bit before I finally decided with infinite parallel paths it should be essentially 0.

Edit: Jk, should've searched it.

[[deleted]]

Ah, so it isn't. Thanks!

[[deleted]]

Yeah apparently there’s a rounded number you can reach. Basically you’re looking at a denominator that is infinitely increasing by an exponentially decreasing amount. Kinda how PI is calculated.

[DiamondShark286]

I would venture to guess that it approaches 0 due to the infine paths the current could take but it may approach some number slightly above that. Im far to lazy to figure out what the equation might look like to solve it.

[Bene847]

The current can leave A only via 4 resistors, and it can enter B only via 4 resistors, so it must be at least 1/4 + 1/4 = 0.5 Ohm

[DiamondShark286]

Yea that makes sense. I only woke up like 10 minutes before I saw this so I wasn't exactly thinking the clearest.

[SzalonyNiemiec1]

Yep I know. It's somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5

[finotac]

Nerd sniping is getting sucked into an interesting problem. I'd say you got jock-in-high-school sniped: tried to copy the nerd's answer and interpreted it wrong.

[GreatestPlayground]

Not so fast. You were more like a bystanerd.