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		motohagiography on May 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What... Very closely related, thank you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s_Millionaires%27_proble...

oh_sigh on May 11, 2022 [–]

My pleasure - I think officially your problem would be the Socialist millionaires problem, but that is mostly only known as a derived form of yao's millionaires problem, which has a much stronger cachet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire_problem

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