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Encyclopedia > Minesweepers
  • The computer game Minesweeper.
  • The military ships, minesweepers, that are used to destroy naval mines at sea.
  • The occupation, minesweeper. These individuals clear landmines in minefields.
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Minesweeper (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (462 words)
Minesweepers are equipped with mechanical or influence sweeps to detonate mines.
Minesweepers are in many cases complementary to minehunters, depending on the operation and the environment.
A minesweeper is in particular better at clearing an area of a large number of relatively simple mines—for example towing a wire sweep to cut loose floating contact mines or an electric loop with a powerful electric current to detonate magnetic mines.
Minesweeper (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3014 words)
Because of Minesweeper's relation to mathematics here, it is mentioned in the Clay Mathematics Institute's unofficial description of one of the Millennium Prize problems, namely whether complexity class P equals NP.
Some Windows versions of Minesweeper have a cheat mode that uses the top-left pixel of the display to signal the presence or absence of a mine under the cursor.
Hex Minesweeper - Free Minesweeper with a hexagonal grid.
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