One hundred prisoners and a lightbulb

DOI10.1007/BF02984862MaRDI QIDQ2124383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 9 April 2022

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02984862

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Coding and information theory (compaction, compression, models of communication, encoding schemes, etc.) (aspects in computer science) (68P30) (n)-person games, (n>2) (91A06) Recreational mathematics (00A08)

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