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Comment by abecedarius

Fair enough, but the abstract really is too opaque imo.

> The k-server conjecture states that a deterministic online algorithm can achieve competitive ratio k on every metric space.

I was like "algorithm for what?" when I knew what every one of those terms meant. Lots of things use k servers. Lots of problems involve metric spaces.

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