alt Hacker News> at several junctures the incorrect path
Common misunderstanding. A labyrinth is a single path. It does not have branches like a maze.
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yellowapple • yesterday at 10:05 PM
If that's the case, then why did Theseus need that ball of yarn from Ariadne to avoid getting lost in one?
emigre • yesterday at 9:43 PM
This really puts the 1986 movie Labyrinth in a new light, haha.
That's the technical meaning, but in common language the two gave been interchangeable for centuries, so it's regrettably hard to be pedantic.