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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Probability and computing 2 e Solution by
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Consider any edge of the simple graph. One endpoint comes first in the permutation ; suppose it is . Then has a graph neighbour preceding it, namely , so . Therefore no edge has both endpoints in :This argument uses only the order of the endpoints, with no random choice required.
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