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The problem of finding two radioactive balls among a given set of balls is reduced to a combinatorial recognition problem, and the latter is solved by a series of tests. Methods of graph theory are used to solve the problem. The approach is illustrated by an example with 22 balls.
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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 6, November–December, 2017, pp. 44–53.
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Donets, G.A. Graph Approach to Solving Problems of Combinatorial Recognition. Cybern Syst Anal 53, 857–865 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-017-9987-6
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