Scientists have just created the world's most difficult and

Even a condensed version of it will give you a headache. Below is a miniature maze for you to try. Try to find the exit for the imaginary marble in this maze, assuming it is locked in the middle of the maze, in the red area.

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Dr. Felix Flicker, a physicist at the University of Bristol, used the theories of the Hamiltonian cycle, the Ammann-Beenker model, the fractal model and ideas from the moves of the Knight on the chessboard to Create this maze.

On the chess board, the knight's move is to jump two spaces forward, then one space to the right. This is the chess piece with the most annoying moves on the chessboard because if it jumps continuously on an 8x8 chess board, the knight's seemingly zigzag moves can fill all 64 squares of the board and form a chess piece. Hamilton cycle - a loop through every point on a map where you can stop at each point only once. This means that with just time, a Knight can go to any position it wants.

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The fact that scientists have discovered a complex maze is an important milestone for mathematics. These Hamilton cycles can be applied to algorithms to find optimal paths on Google Maps, fold a protein to create drugs and solve many other difficult problems such as carbon capture.

Below is the answer to the maze at the beginning of the article:

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Scientists have just created the world's most difficult and endless maze

A group of scientists from the University of Bristol in the UK has just created the world's most difficult maze, which can almost expand infinitely in size.

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