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		nonsequitur on Aug 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA's Puzzle Periodical There's no assignment to the „m“ variables that would make your algorithm work in the general case. im4w1l's strategy is just: Player i returns (i - [Sum of the other players' suits]) % 4 (With i ranging from 0 to 3)

josefdlange on Aug 22, 2016 [–]

`m` is the result; this scratch here is meant to resemble algebra, not programming.

You know, solve for `m`, etc.

josefdlange on Aug 22, 2016 | [–]

But the subtraction is simpler. I didn't want to confuse anyone with moduloing a negative number.

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