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A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025) (sigbovik.org)
92 points by kmstout 12 days ago
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This is great, but I think the author forgot to take into account the most destructive force to Lebanon's infrastructure.
For anyone curious: the most destructive force is the Lebanese themselves, at least in the last 30 years. Israel has only recently taken first place.
"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.

(2025)

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