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Designing Progressive Dinner Parties

Combinatorics 2020-03-19 v2

Abstract

I recently came across a combinatorial design problem involving progressive dinner parties (also known as safari suppers). In this note, I provide some elementary methods of designing schedules for these kinds of dinner parties.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2001.05394,
  title  = {Designing Progressive Dinner Parties},
  author = {Douglas R. Stinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05394},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

revised version corrects a few small typos and removes the exception in Theorem 3.7

R2 v1 2026-06-23T13:12:05.510Z