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So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do?
Andrew
So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do?
there will never be more than 4 billion ants.
Who knows, but they'll definitely need IPv6 
Jeff
Large Scale aNt will be good enough. Plus this has security advantages.
This has been a solved problem for a long time. You just need to implement Virtual Local Ant Nest (VLAN) and use overlapping local address schemes.
a message of 9 lines which said:
But what is the equivalent of 3-way handshake? And of ECN (ants
carrying back messages "I still bring food but it won't last")? And
the security implications (what prevent bad ants to disrupt the
mechanism: ants did not invent random ISNs)? Is there a source quench
mechanism or did the ants deprecate it long before RFC 6633? And what
is the size of the initial window? Should we cancel all patents
related to TCP because there is prior ant art? Many questions
unanswered.
Ant algorithms are currently part of the communications infrastructure. Here is a recent paper, and see the reference in the paper about the Ant Based Control (ABC) algorithm that is used for circuit switched networks.
Marc
http://www.ijarcsse.com/docs/papers/Volume_3/3_March2013/V3I3-0125.pdf
get larger ants.
(and the responses have now covered both pro forma responses.)
d/
So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do?
get larger ants.
No, no. The solution is far simpler than that, and would probably give a good example of real-world population control. Just get an ant-eater.
(and the responses have now covered both pro forma responses.)
d/
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Dave Crocker
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No wonders ants don't govern us. This algorithm is atrocious. So if
food is scarce, most ants will stay at home and play videogames all
day, but if theres a lot of food, all of them will go around and
return with mountains of food they can't store. Is a algorithm, from
a madman, designed to kill the hive if theres very low food or too
much food.
I propose ants start using "food debts"/"food promises". Ants will
print "food debts" to explorer ants, these explorer ants must "pay"
these debts by finding food. If some ant need a lot of food, that ant
will print more debt. The more food the hive need, more debt is
printed.