BYZANTINE GENERALS

  

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BYZANTINE GENERALS

Specialty Definition: BYZANTINE GENERALS

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The problem of reaching a consensus among distributed units if some of them give misleading answers. The original problem concerns generals plotting a coup. Some generals lie about whether they will support a particular plan and what other generals told them. What percentage of liars can a decision making algorithm tolerate and still correctly determine a consensus?. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BYZANTINE GENERALS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-r-s-t-y-z"

-5 letters: talebearings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BYZANTINE GENERALS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 59 5A 41 4E 54 49 4E 45      47 45 4E 45 52 41 4C 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01011001 01011010 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#90 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#71 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#76 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059 005A 0041 004E 0054 0049 004E 0045      0047 0045 004E 0045 0052 0041 004C 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36596035485443483924139483952354653

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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