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@Article{Wan:1997:CAC, author = "Peng-Jun Wan and Qifan Yang and Dean Kelley", title = "A $(3/2) \log 3$-competitive algorithm for the counterfeit coin problem", journal = j-THEOR-COMP-SCI, volume = "181", number = "2", pages = "347--356", day = "30", month = jul, year = "1997", CODEN = "TCSCDI", ISSN = "0304-3975 (print), 1879-2294 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "0304-3975", bibdate = "Mon Jul 19 22:21:03 MDT 1999", bibsource = "http://www.elsevier.com/cgi-bin/cas/tree/store/tcs/cas_free/browse/browse.cgi?year=1997&volume=181&issue=2; http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/tcs1995.bib", URL = "http://www.elsevier.com/cgi-bin/cas/tree/store/tcs/cas_sub/browse/browse.cgi?year=1997&volume=181&issue=2&aid=2481", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, classification = "C4240 (Programming and algorithm theory); C4240C (Computational complexity)", conflocation = "Xi'an, China; 24-26 Aug. 1995", conftitle = "First Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference", corpsource = "Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA", fjournal = "Theoretical Computer Science", journal-URL = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03043975/", keywords = "3/2 log 3; competitive algorithm; competitive algorithms; competitive ratio; computational complexity; counterfeit coin problem; improved algorithm; minimum number of weighings", pubcountry = "Netherlands", sponsororg = "Nat. Natural Sci. Found.; Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.; Chinese Acad. Sci", treatment = "T Theoretical or Mathematical", }