Re: Twenty Bank Robbers -- Game theory:)

Hal Finney writes:
>I think the best way to approach this problem is to first try to solve
>it assuming there are only two robbers rather than 20.

Right.  Of course, you're implicitly assuming not only that this bunch
of bank robbers is rational, but that they're familiar with
mathematical induction.  :->

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   Eli Brandt
   eli+@cs.cmu.edu

eli+@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> 
> Hal Finney writes:
> >I think the best way to approach this problem is to first try to solve
> >it assuming there are only two robbers rather than 20.
> 
> Right.  Of course, you're implicitly assuming not only that this bunch
> of bank robbers is rational, but that they're familiar with
> mathematical induction.  :->

In my initial post that caused all the turmoil I said (literally) this:

``Twenty cypherpunks robbed a bank.''
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I was careful choosing words.

	- Igor.