Lamport's Byzantine Generals Algorithm in Python

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Maro · 2h ago

Understanding and implementing this algorithm was very rewarding. While Lamport didn't win a specific award for the problem itself, his work on it, and related concepts in distributed computing, earned him the prestigious A.M. Turing Award in 2013.

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Lamport's Byzantine Generals Algorithm in Python

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