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		mad44 on March 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to hang a picture using n nails such that remo... 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.

Jun8 on March 20, 2012 | [–]

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.

joshAg on March 20, 2012 | | [–]

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

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