One Big Gift Selection Algorithm

My family does “one big gift” every Christmas; that is instead of everyone simply buying everyone else a smaller gift; every person is assigned to one other person to give them a single large gift. Selection of who gives what to who is a place of some (minor) conflict. Therefore we simply use a random algorithm. Unfortunately, apparently a uniform random sample of pairs is not enough, therefore we take 100 samples to vote for each combination to see who gets what as follows: ...

December 25, 2015 · 2 min · 273 words · Benjamin Bengfort