Re: probability

Nice description- wikipedias are great. It did bring up one question
for me (not related to the problem):

The Wikipedia entry said this is sometimes called the marriage problem
(looking at a list of suitors for a person). I always thought the
classic marriage problem was the graph theory problem of when it is
possible to get a perfect matching from a bipartite graph (vertices are
people, edges connect acceptible pairings). Are they both called this,
or am I misremembering something?

Normally I wouldn't ask, but the nature of a wikipedia is that
incorrect info can be added, but I wasn't going to note anything there
when I wasn't certain of the error.

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