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> if one fails, he will have no idea which one is correct

Depends how it fails! For example, say, when you change direction one turns and the other doesn't.



Couldn't he bring his own 3rd? Compasses aren't heavy?


…or a 4th and a 5th, and have voting rounds — an idea explored by Stanisław Lem in "Golem XIV", where a parliament of machines voted :-)




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