Five cards

Five cards: a simple guide to beginning the consultation.

doctor should allow the patient to speak freely at the start of the consultation, many doctors find it difficult not to interrupt, and tend to medicalise the patient's presentation prematurely. To help overcome these tendencies we use a simple description of the consultation as consisting of three parts, according to who should be leading the dialogue at the time (Figure 1). The consultation be...

The Five-Card Trick Can Be Done with Four Cards

The “five-card trick” invented by Boer allows Alice and Bob to securely compute the AND function of their secret inputs using five cards—three black cards and two red cards—with identical backs. This paper shows that such a secure computation can be done with only four cards. Specifically, we give a protocol to achieve a secure computation of AND using only four cards—two black and two red. Our...

History of Credit Cards

Unfortunately it could also be used to defraud these agencies. In the period immediately following their introduction public acceptance of credit cards was less than enthusiastic, but by 1992 there were almost 10 million major credit cards in use in Australia.2 There were also in excess of 25,000 fraudulent credit card transactions per annum. In this, then, as in so many other areas of property...

Repeat prescription cards.

Model Checking Russian Cards

We implement a specific protocol for bit exchange among card-playing agents in three different state-of-the-art epistemic model checkers and compare the results.