Hedge's Programming and Graph Navigation

Ethic, Hedge, and Lemma find themselves in a control room with the Node of Memory. Lemma reveals her past mistake of creating a compound that led to societal collapse. They plan to reconfigure a factory to produce a cure. The process involves understanding directed acyclic graphs to determine the correct sequence of steps. Hedge is programmed to follow this sequence, leading to the production of the cure. Ethic realizes Hedge's true purpose and the implications of the nodes' power.

What was the initial purpose of the compound Lemma discovered?

• To enhance physical strength

• To make people their best selves

• To increase intelligence

• To improve memory retention

What was the main consequence of the compound's side effects?

• Increased creativity

• Technological advancement

• Government dissolution

• Economic growth

What is the primary goal of reconfiguring the factory?

• To produce more food

• To manufacture the cure

• To create new technology

• To deactivate the Node of Memory

What type of graph is used to represent the manufacturing process?

• Directed acyclic graph

• Hierarchical graph

• Cyclic graph

• Undirected graph

What is the first step in navigating a directed acyclic graph?

• Start with a step that has arrows pointing to it

• Start with a step that has no arrows pointing to it

• Start with the last step in the sequence

• Start with the step that has the most dependencies

How does Hedge decide which step to take when multiple options are available?

• By picking the alphabetically earliest step

• By choosing the step with the longest duration

• By selecting the step with the fewest dependencies

• By choosing the step with the most dependencies

What is the purpose of Hedge's ability to store information in a table?

• To improve processing speed

• To calculate the fastest route

• To keep track of dependencies

• To enhance memory capacity

What happens when Ethic retrieves the Node of Memory?

• The factory shuts down

• The robots are alerted

• The cure is completed

• The Node of Power is activated

What critical mistake did Ethic make in Hedge's programming?

• Not including a self-destruct mechanism

• Allowing Hedge to fly over the Brad barrier

• Forgetting to set a condition to end the loop

• Programming Hedge to be too slow

What was Hedge's ultimate goal with the nodes?

• To transform the world into a giant maze

• To build a new supercomputer

• To destroy the world machine

• To create a new government