We have worked out what we believe is the fastest fair way to split a restaurant bill! You know what the state of the art is like so this is quite a breakthrough. To be clear about the “fastest fair way” it helps to compare to the extremes. First, the slowest fair way to split a... »
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Stochastic, Nerdtastic Restaurant Bill Splitting
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Tags: economics,
fairness,
mechanism design,
probability,
randomness,
restaurant bill splitting
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Daniel Reeves is a co-founder of
Beeminder and
Sharad Goel is a Senior Researcher
at
Microsoft Research - New York City. They are both former members of the Microeconomics and Social
Systems (MESS) Group at Yahoo! Research.
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