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• ... that the study of selection algorithms has been traced to an 1883 work of Lewis Carroll on how to award second place in single-elimination tournaments? Source: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/BFPRT73.pdf
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kameron Simmonds
  • Comment: The 1883 publication was actually under the name Charles L. Dodgson but the source says Lewis Carroll (Dodgson's more-famous pseudonym) and I think that makes a better hook and is accurate enough

Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 04:14, 9 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Selection algorithm; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.