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Informally, an algorithm is a set of explicit instructions used to solve a problem (e.g. Euclid's algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two integers). For more specific questions on algorithms, this tag may be used in conjunction with the approximation-algorithms, algorithmic-randomness and algorithmic-topology tags.

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What is the easiest randomized algorithm to motivate to the layperson?

Multiplication checking: is $ab$ equal to $c$ (or is $a(x)b(x)$ equal to $c(x)$)? Analysis of randomized solution is pretty easy; also it provides a huge gap in asymptotic compared to straightforward …
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Graph connectivity related game

I was considering the following game on an undirected unweighted graph $G=(V,E)$ (not necessarily simple). Two players, Police and Runaway, take moves in turn. Police can cut an arbitrary subset of ed …
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