[asdf3331]

some of the comments on this article are so embarrassing. It's just a short and clearly written article on a pretty simple and fundamental type of problem in information theory. Similar ideas are the basis for the systems we use in data compression and transmission and error correction among other things.

Maybe better to think for a few seconds before dismissing the problem as pointless and claiming to hate it.

[magicalhippo]

It describes the problem, but not fully. Either do it properly or link to a complete description.

In this case, unlike what the article states as the problem, the point seems not to be how to send a real number using a single bit, but how to aggregate such bits from many agents that measure some shared thing.

That's two very, very different things.