A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)

kmstout 89 points 6 comments May 30, 2026
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kmstout

Here's a better link: https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#page=44

halcdev

The original : https://eprint.gacr.info/2025/001/

ChrisArchitect

(2025) A more direct link to the paper alone/overview: https://zenodo.org/records/17749537

NDlurker

This is great, but I think the author forgot to take into account the most destructive force to Lebanon's infrastructure.

jonah

"This result is, to the best of our knowledge, the tightest known bound on papal visits required for complete national infrastructure repair in the literature." You don't say? I suspect the only.

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