{"id":1905,"date":"2006-07-14T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T04:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2006-07-19T22:06:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T06:06:36","slug":"finite-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"finite menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0653430\/\">One episode of <i>Murder in Suburbia<\/i><\/a> involves a mate-swapping club of four couples.  (In this case, sex provides the opportunity but not the motive.)  It occurred to me in my insomnia that, instead of drawing names from a hat, for a small fixed group it would be efficient to prepare a set of cards for the 24 permutations (or the nine <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/Derangement.html\">derangements<\/a>).  Any of the participants could then veto a potential partner by removing six (or three) of the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One episode of Murder in Suburbia involves a mate-swapping club of four couples. (In this case, sex provides the opportunity but not the motive.) It occurred to me in my insomnia that, instead of drawing names from a hat, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}