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Warning: don’t play rock, paper, scissors with a large group of people unless you have a lot of time to spare. The game time increases exponentially with the number of players. So with 100 people participating, you may have to wait for a hundred thousand trillion rounds or more for the emergence of a winner.
Rock, paper, scissors is often no more than a bit of fun or a way to decide where to get lunch between friends. …