1996-07-26 - Re: Twenty Bank Robbers – Game theory:)

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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:46:41 +0800
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Hal Finney writes:
>I think the best way to approach this problem is to first try to solve
>it assuming there are only two robbers rather than 20.

Right.  Of course, you're implicitly assuming not only that this bunch
of bank robbers is rational, but that they're familiar with
mathematical induction.  :->

--
   Eli Brandt
   eli+@cs.cmu.edu

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