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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...


I 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.


And you can combine the two, e.g. another paper from the same conference: "The Byzantine Brides Problem" Swan Dubois, Sébastien Tixeuil and Nini Zhu.


one of my discrete math professors was cut from the same cloth. We didn't learn about stable marriages; we learned about stable orgies.


Sounds like a future problem at the ICPC worlds. I would write it, but I lack horrible-pun skills.




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