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by farnsworth 5359 days ago
It doesn't depend just on n since you aren't just searching through n available socks, you are searching k places with n_k socks in each place and with p_k confidence that you have thoroughly searched each place. I can't think of a more general problem that this might correspond to.
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Will it get solved when we straighten out this whole P NP business?