A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)

This is great, but I think the author forgot to take into account the most destructive force to Lebanon's infrastructure.

For anyone curious: the most destructive force is the Lebanese themselves, at least in the last 30 years. Israel has only recently taken first place.

Here's a better link:

https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#page=44

"This result is, to the best of our knowledge, the tightest known bound on papal visits required for complete national infrastructure repair in the literature."

You don't say? I suspect the only.

The original : https://eprint.gacr.info/2025/001/

(2025)

A more direct link to the paper alone/overview: https://zenodo.org/records/17749537