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Re:Self-Enforcing Protocols by anamax on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @03:41PM (#756146)
This assumes that the cake is uniform, and most cakes aren't.

If the cutter prefers frosting and knows that the other person doesn't, the cutter can arrange to get a larger share than she'd get if roles were reversed.

I think that the problem can be fixed by giving all participants knives so they're all cutters.

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Re:Self-Enforcing Protocols by byrneseyeview on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @04:59PM (#756393)
I'm assuming this algorithm isn't: "Give each party a knife. Survivor gets the cake."
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Re:Self-Enforcing Protocols by anamax on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:30AM (#757456)
That works too.

However, I was trying to say "everyone does the moving knife thing and anyone can call the cut on anyone's knife".

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