Moving-knife procedure
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Moving-knife procedure
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In the mathematics of social science, and especially game theory, a moving-knife procedure is a type of solution to the fair division problem. The canonical example is the division of a cake using a knife. The simplest example is a moving-knife equivalent of the "I cut, you choose" scheme, first described by A.K.Austin as a prelude to his own procedure: One player moves the knife across the cake, conventionally from left to right.
The cake is cut when either player calls "stop".
If each player c
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Solution to the fair division problem
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