Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? - Dennis E. Shasha
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According to legend, three galactic terraformers shaped your planet into a paradise. When their work was done, they left the source of their power behind: three golden hexagons, hidden in dungeons full of traps and monsters. If one person were to bring all three together, they could reinvent the world however they saw fit. Can you collect the hexagons before your rival? Dennis E. Shasha shows how.
When purchasing a commodity item, one is conscious of the conflicting interests of buyer and seller regarding price, but not so much of other consumers. In an auction, the seller doesn’t set the price (there may be a reserve price, but that’s usually much lower than the final price), consumers (called bidders in the setting of auctions) do. How does this influence the behavior of bidders with respect to one another?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Dennis Shasha
- Director Igor Coric, Artrake Studio
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
