Three Thresholds for a Liar

@article{Spencer1992ThreeTF,
  title={Three Thresholds for a Liar},
  author={Joel H. Spencer and Peter Winkler},
  journal={Combinatorics, Probability and Computing},
  year={1992},
  volume={1},
  pages={81 - 93}
}
Motivated by the problem of making correct computations from partly false information, we study a corruption of the classic game “Twenty Questions” in which the player who answers the yes-or-no questions is permitted to lie up to a fixed fraction r of the time. The other player is allowed q arbitrary questions with which to try to determine, with certainty, which of n objects his opponent has in mind; he “wins” if he can always do so, and “wins quickly” if he can do so using only O(log n… 
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