Five pirates (of different ages) have 100 gold coins to divide amongst themselves. They decide on the following approach to determine how much each pirate receives:
The eldest pirate proposes an allocation. All pirates (including the eldest) then vote on the proposal. If the majority accept the proposal then the coins are divided in the way suggested. If not, then the eldest pirate is executed and the new eldest amongst the remaining pirates proposes a new allocation. If the votes are tied then this is enough for the proposal to be accepted. Assuming that the pirates are motivated primarily by survival, then to a lesser extent by greed and finally to the least extent by sadism (i.e. they'd prefer to receive a gold coin and see someone get executed than just receive one coin earlier, but would prefer one coin to none and an execution; and obviously would prefer 0 coins and surviving to 100 coins and being executed), and act in a logical way, what is the maximum number of coins the eldest pirate can get? please provide a source code thanks in advance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
