Alessandro Panconesi, Pietro Maria Posta, Mirko Giacchini
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Abstract
In the video game "7 Billion Humans", the player is requested to direct a
group of workers to various destinations by writing a program that is executed
simultaneously on each worker. While the game is quite rich and, indeed, it is
considered one of the best games for beginners to learn the basics of
programming, we show that even extremely simple versions are already NP-Hard or
PSPACE-Hard.