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One can imagine a guillotine that chops the king's head off only if K members of the revolutionary council reach agreement and turn their keys...
by willvarfar 15y ago
One can imagine a guillotine that chops the king's head off only if K members of the revolutionary council reach agreement and turn their keys...
- mad44 15y agoI see what you did there. A professor of mine once said that humans remember stories related to violence or sex (which is a no-no in class). I guess, hence, two-generals problem, byzantine-generals.
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- joshAg 15y agoone of my discrete math professors was cut from the same cloth. We didn't learn about stable marriages; we learned about stable orgies.
- Jun8 15y agoAnd you can combine the two, e.g. another paper from the same conference: "The Byzantine Brides Problem" Swan Dubois, Sébastien Tixeuil and Nini Zhu.
- ahelwer 15y agoSounds like a future problem at the ICPC worlds. I would write it, but I lack horrible-pun skills.