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what if you are the nth person on line? (lemmy.eco.br)
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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 48 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I pass it to the n+1^th^ person. We can do this forever because integers is infinite.

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Smart solution. Like this, no one ever gets killed but we need an infinite number of people on the switches.

[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we can travel faster than the trolley, we could adjust all switches with one person who continues to travel to the next junction before the trolley arrives!

[–] Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

At this point some might question why you didn't buy a nuke in order to stop the trolley

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