From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 19:51:58 +0800
To: ichudov@algebra.com
Subject: Re: Twenty Beautiful Women
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At 20:54 7/27/96, Mike Duvos wrote:
>ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
>
> > Also, I would appreciate if someone specified what exactly
> > the goal function is.
>
>Me too.

For clarification, the problem is often stated in textbooks similar like this:

You ask someone to write one number each on ten pieces of paper without you
being able to see the numbers. The person may use any number from 1 to
10^99, but may not use a number twice. The person turns over the ten
papers.

You goal is to determine the paper with the highest number [rules apply as
described in the original post]

The general solution is to flip over 1/e papers and choose the paper that
has a higher number on it than any of the 1/e papers turned over at first.



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