Talk:Stable marriage problem: Difference between revisions

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: You might like to find space to duck :-)<br>I guess girls who ditch the rules and ask the guys win big time. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 12:35, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 
::True that a girl who ask her first choice would have him, but the total sum may suffer since he may be much happier somewhere else. This is shown with the stability test, no pair where both want each other more than their partner, e.g. even if Ben wants Ada more than his wife Ellen, Ellen should not have the same values or the sort has failed.
 
::This bring up old memories from those classes in national economy, where one thing was how to calculate the maximum sum of ‘usefulness’ that any resource could do in a society. And that is neither “all to one”, or “equal to all”. Resources where according o the maximization thesis to be spread so that their total sum is maximized, e.g. alls individual needs for different resources valued against their specific needs and available resources… I think I just connected it into the Knapsack series… --[[User:Jofur|&lt;Jofur&gt;]] 12:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
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