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How to select a loser

✍ Scribed by Helmut Prodinger

Book ID: 103058459
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 477 KB
Volume: 120
Category: Article
ISSN: 0012-365X
DOI: 10.1016/0012-365x(93)90572-b

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Prodinger. H., How to select a loser, Discrete Mathematics 120 (1993) 149-159.

N people select a loser by flipping coins. Recursively, the O-party continues until the loser is found. Among other things, it is shown that this process stops on the average after about log, N steps. Nevertheless, this very plausible result requires rather advanced methods.

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