‘Super Mario Brothers’ is harder than NP-hard

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 15:01 in Biology & Nature

Completing a game of “Super Mario Brothers” can be hard — very, very hard. That’s the conclusion of a new paper from researchers at MIT, the University of Ottawa, and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. They show that the problem of solving a level in “Super Mario Brothers” is as hard as the hardest problems […]

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