The Bonus Pool Nobody Confesses
Seven traders on a desk are curious about their average year-end bonus, but not one of them is willing to let any colleague learn their individual number. No trusted outsider, no computers — just conversation and a notepad passed around. Can they compute the exact average so that no one learns anything about any individual's bonus beyond what the average itself implies? Describe a protocol.
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