26 Jan
2018
26 Jan
'18
6:42 a.m.
Oops! I was reading over-hastily. Gasarch DOES attribute the problem to Alan Frank (bottom of page 6). On Friday, January 26, 2018, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
I just learned that BillGasarch and his students have done a lot of work on the problem:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02452
Incidentally, Gasarch says the problem pre-dates Alan Frank’s work and provides citations, but I haven’t checked his sources to see if the pre-Frank work treats the exact same problem.
Jim Propp