Talk:Round-robin (document)

How do you do round robin gift exchange with even numbers without re-gifting to the same person....?

1234, 4321, 1<>3 / 2<>4 1234, 4321, 1<>3 / 2<>4

5 people works fine... 12345, 54321, 135241, 14253, repeat

I think six has the same issue and I suspect 8, 10, etc.

Am I incorrect? I'm not a mathematician, I was just trying to figure out a rotation for my family this year... and am stumped.

cleanup tag removed

Hope that's ok. Hakluyt bean 03:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I would definitely think this still needs cleaning up. In particular, I believe this should become a disambiguation page? Thoughts?Hrcolyer (talk) 08:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Round robin

i am suppose to do round robin at a train, i have several different scenarios, i have never heard of round robin, could someone guide me in the right direction example one of the scene is coping with change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.14.137.107 (talk) 22:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Round robin used in radio

We should have an explanation about how a round robin is used in radio such as on naval vessels or in a railroad hump-yard. I've used them but don't really know what they mean. Just that there was a selection on the radio controls labeled round robin. UB65 (talk) 12:10, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Claims 'correct' meaning differs from colloquial one.

"Round Robin" is an expression. Its meaning is therefore purely conventional; it does not have a 'real' meaning differing from colloquial usage; rather, the other meaning must merely be an older one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.209.110.49 (talk) 20:36, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In technology

I'm not sure how far this goes but in an [IRCd] network a round robin is a type of load balancer where you have one server, generally at the network's domain or farther along in the distribution process say after some regional geographic balancing, which randomly redirects an incoming client to an actual IRC server on the thought that as long as you have a lot of clients the random numbers will generally level out the client load on the servers. The key with a round robin in this context is that it's just random, ether you don't have ready access to the data to make an informed decision, or you just don't care that much.