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Sperner's lemma feels very much like eBay's proxy bidding - you put the maximum you're willing to pay in, and eBay will bid up to that value and not over.

And then with ten minutes left, you go back to the auction and start desperately typing in higher and higher numbers because you have to have teh shiny, rationality be damned.




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