From: utzoo!utcsrgv!burt Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Firing Squad problem Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.603 Posted: Fri Oct 15 10:17:19 1982 Received: Fri Oct 15 10:29:46 1982 References: cwruecmp.166 The version I was told, the "very dumb firing squad" problem, had two additional conditions: the men(?) on the firing squad could remember responses to only four commands from their immediate neigbours; the whole process was started with a command given to one (or was it both?) end man.