A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025) sigbovik.org 89 points by kmstout 1 day ago
NDlurker 22 hours ago This is great, but I think the author forgot to take into account the most destructive force to Lebanon's infrastructure. anonu 20 hours ago 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.
anonu 20 hours ago 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.
jonah 15 hours ago "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.
ChrisArchitect 22 hours ago (2025)A more direct link to the paper alone/overview: https://zenodo.org/records/17749537
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.
Here's a better link:
https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#page=44
"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.
The original : https://eprint.gacr.info/2025/001/
(2025)
A more direct link to the paper alone/overview: https://zenodo.org/records/17749537