A Mathematician's Miscellany¶
Littlewood, J. E. (1953). A Mathematician's Miscellany.
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- The canonical dramatization is the blue-eyes puzzle, in which publicly announcing "at least one of you has blue eyes" to a group where everyone already privately knows it nonetheless triggers an otherwise-impossible chain of inference
This sourcePresents the muddy-children / blue-eyes puzzle (the three-ladies version, generalized to n by induction), the canonical demonstration that a public announcement upgrades mutual to common knowledge and triggers the inference cascade.
- The canonical dramatization is the blue-eyes puzzle, in which publicly announcing "at least one of you has blue eyes" to a group where everyone already privately knows it nonetheless triggers an otherwise-impossible chain of inference
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