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For anyone wondering what this does, it looks like it produces optimal configurations for belt balancers given a specified number of input and output belts. Belt balancers evenly distribute items between belts: https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancer_mechanics

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Fun to see that that math (linked in that wiki) coincides with early 20th-century analog telephony problems—the problem of how to arrange electromechanical switches to support large numbers of simultaneous circuits, avoiding bottlenecks.

There's people reading Bell Labs technical papers from the 1950's as part of the process of playing an addictive video game.

> There's people reading Bell Labs technical papers from the 1950's as part of the process of playing an addictive video game.

It's a nice break from reading orbital mechanics textbooks as part of the process of playing another addictive video game.

Origin of my HN name! :)

What games?

The latter is surely Kerbal Space Program.

Bell labs => Factorio

Orbital mechanics => Kerbal Space Program

Sounds like kerbal space program?

I personally bought this real world fighter plane tactics book for playing military flight sims: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0870210599 .

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