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19942023
most citedOdd One Out

8 citations · 48 across the 76 of their papers we have counts for

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81 papers

math.HO2023

What's for dessert?

Tanya Khovanova, Daniel A. Klain

Two people meet in a coffeehouse and decide to share one dessert from a menu of several possible choices. How should they choose which one? A method is presented that is intended t…

math.HO2023

Quad Squares

Nikhil Byrapuram, Hwiseo, Choi +9

We study 4-by-4 squares formed by cards from the EvenQuads deck. EvenQuads is a card game with 64 cards where cards have 3 attributes with 4 values in each attribute. A quad is fou…

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SOS

Jasper Caravan, Michael Han, Andrew Kalashnikov +7

SOS is a game similar to tic-tac-toe. We study a variety of variations of it played on a 1-by- rectangle. On our journey we change the target string to SOO, then study all targe…

math.HO2023

Card Games Unveiled: Exploring the Underlying Linear Algebra

Nikhil Byrapuram, Hwiseo, Choi +9

We discuss four famous card games that can help learn linear algebra. The games are: SET, Socks, Spot it!, and EvenQuads. We describe the game in the language of vector, affine, an…

math.HO2023

Archive Labeling Sequences

Tanya Khovanova, Gregory Marton

What follows is the story of a family of integer sequences, which started life as a Google interview puzzle back in the previous century when VHS video tapes were in use.

math.CO2023

Ending States of a Special Variant of the Chip-Firing Algorithm

Tanya Khovanova, Rich Wang

We investigate a special variant of chip-firing, in which we consider an infinite set of rooms on a number line, some of which are occupied by violinists. In a move, we take two vi…