Fun paper, but I got pissed off with the first one because it depended on something not stated in the problem; in brief it requires multiple interdependent participants to adhere to a pre-agreed algorithm for searching a data structure whose topology they cannot know in advance.
The solution is interesting and worthy, but the problem as written is poorly stated. I hit the right idea while I was thinking about it but then rejected it because it seemed like an unjustified assumption. More than one of these seem to depend on the vagueness or incompleteness of the problem specification resulting in a meta-solution rather than a formal one.
The solution is interesting and worthy, but the problem as written is poorly stated. I hit the right idea while I was thinking about it but then rejected it because it seemed like an unjustified assumption. More than one of these seem to depend on the vagueness or incompleteness of the problem specification resulting in a meta-solution rather than a formal one.