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Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance

Quanta Science Podcast by Quanta Magazine

Aug 25, 202631:07Science & Medicine

Combinatorial discrepancy theory is a branch of mathematics concerned with balance. If you’re making two teams — sports, trivia, you name it — how can you make sure that they’re perfectly balanced and fair, skill-wise? Y...