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What Is the Two Generals Problem in Computer Science?
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- It highlights the impossibility of reliably coordinating actions over an unreliable network.
- Two generals must agree on a time to attack, but messages can be lost.
- Even with acknowledgments, each message carries risk of failure.
- This problem underlies fundamental limits of distributed systems and consensus.
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