Distributed computing is a term that describes the work that autonomous computers can do to achieve a common goal, especially in respect to complex projects. many areas of society, such as the healthcare industry, can profit from this model tremendously. for example, the search for a cure for cancer can be accelerated when scientists can reach across national boundaries to work closely together. other goals that can be accomplished using distributed computing are:

You will be given two character arrays of the same size, one will contain a number of ships. ships will move around the character array based on which way they are facing and the route they are on. routes are given in the other array. the route consists of '-' and '|' for straight paths, '\' and '/' for curves, and '+' for intersections. there are ships on these routes. ships always face a direction, '^' for up, '> ' for right, 'v' for down, and '< ' for left. any time the ships hit a '\' or a '/' it will turn as you would expect a ship to turn (e.g. a '^' that moves into a '/' will turn right). at an intersection, ships will always continue straight through. all ships move at the same speed, ships take turns moving and all ships move during one 'tick'. the one in the most top left goes first, followed by those to its right, then the ones in the next row. it iterates along the rows and then down the columns. each ship moves one space on its turn moving along the route. your function needs to return the position of the first collision between two ships and the number of ticks before the crash occurred.

What judgment would you make about open systems interconnect? not useful that it is a technology that it is a model that it does not pertain to technology

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