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Can you come up with one? Given the specific problem, I find it challenging to come up with a different analogy for the same concept.
by Taywee 4y ago
Can you come up with one? Given the specific problem, I find it challenging to come up with a different analogy for the same concept.
- williamscales 4y agoSure. I’ll quote from Wikipedia and modify it. “In combinatorial mathematics, the ménage problem or problème des ménages asks for the number of different ways in which it is possible to seat a set of couples, labeled “A_n” and “B_n” accordingly, at a round dining table so that the A and B alternate and no two couples are sat next to each other such that A_n = B_m”.
- hobo_mark 4y agoAnd this improves the problem statement how exactly? You are just doing the "parent 1" "parent 2" gymnastics that get (deservedly) mocked and (unfortunately) weaponized at any possible occasion.
- waqf 4y agoYou're organising the office dinner party and each employee has brought exactly one spouse (who is not an employee). You wish to seat the attendees alternating employees and spouses, perhaps so that the spouses feel maximally included and nobody starts a work-related conversation.
- Taywee 4y agoPretty corporate for my tastes. Maybe it's just coming from Advent of Code, but a whimsical framing with elves and dwarves sounds nice.
- gavagai691 4y agoSure. Seating Pokemon trainers and Pokemon, where each trainer brings their Pokemon. Idea stolen from this video on Gale-Shapley, which is also typically presented in a "gendered / heteronormative" way (but doesn't have to be): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudb8DuzQlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudb8DuzQlM. I mean there are so many possible examples, right? Anything where you have pairs of partners.. bridge, tennis doubles, etc.