The problem knows as the firing squad synchronization … Consider a finite (but arbitrarily long) one-dimensional array … The machines are synchronous, and the state of … at time t. The problem is to specify … [independent of n] in such a way that the General [an end machine] can cause … the same time. … When the General undergoes the transition into the … up to the soldiers.
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