Talk:Round-robin (document)

How do you do round robin gift exchange with even numbers without re-gifting to the same person....?

1234, 4321, 1<>3 / 2<>4 1234, 4321, 1<>3 / 2<>4

5 people works fine... 12345, 54321, 135241, 14253, repeat

I think six has the same issue and I suspect 8, 10, etc.

Am I incorrect? I'm not a mathematician, I was just trying to figure out a rotation for my family this year... and am stumped.

cleanup tag removed
Hope that's ok. Hakluyt bean 03:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Really? I would definitely think this still needs cleaning up. In particular, I believe this should become a disambiguation page? Thoughts?Hrcolyer (talk) 08:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)


 * While the page may still deserve the cleanup tag, I disagree with it becoming a disambiguation page. I think an attempt to describe the overall concept of the term is important. I see no disadvantage to instances of specific usage being listed alongside or with a disambiguation link at the top.Brian310207 (talk) 14:39, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Round robin
i am suppose to do round robin at a train, i have several different scenarios, i have never heard of round robin, could someone guide me in the right direction example one of the scene is coping with change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.14.137.107 (talk) 22:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Round robin used in radio
We should have an explanation about how a round robin is used in radio such as on naval vessels or in a railroad hump-yard. I've used them but don't really know what they mean. Just that there was a selection on the radio controls labeled round robin. UB65 (talk) 12:10, 15 August 2009 (UTC) ............ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.211.89.74 (talk) 07:03, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Claims 'correct' meaning differs from colloquial one.
"Round Robin" is an expression. Its meaning is therefore purely conventional; it does not have a 'real' meaning differing from colloquial usage; rather, the other meaning must merely be an older one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.209.110.49 (talk) 20:36, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

In technology
I'm not sure how far this goes but in an IRCd network a round robin is a type of load balancer where you have one server, generally at the network's domain or farther along in the distribution process say after some regional geographic balancing, which randomly redirects an incoming client to an actual IRC server on the thought that as long as you have a lot of clients the random numbers will generally level out the client load on the servers. The key with a round robin in this context is that it's just random, ether you don't have ready access to the data to make an informed decision, or you just don't care that much. 76.112.50.23 (talk) 06:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Merge this article with disambiguation page
We now have Round-robin and Round-robin (disambiguation). Since they are both disambiguation pages this makes no sense. They should be merged Bhny (talk) 15:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I moved and merged the alternate definitions Bhny (talk) 14:54, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

The wrong solution has been applied. The page as it now exists refers to a single use of the term "round robin" that --- if this is an exaggeration, it is just barely --- nobody who comes to this page could ever possibly mean to be looking up. The page for "Round-robin" should probably be the disambiguation page; if not, it should at least refer to one of the uses of the term that someone who finds the page could conceivably actually be looking for. 198.151.130.134 (talk) 19:36, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * It does have a disambiguation link at the top. I'd be ok with moving this to Round Robin (document) and then moving disambig to Round Robin Bhny (talk) 22:15, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Did the move Bhny (talk) 01:24, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Additional meanings
Firstly - as captured by Webster -
 * something (as a letter) sent in turn to the members of a group each of whom signs and forwards it sometimes after adding comment

This was before the days of email!

Secondly - and particularly in the UK - 'round robin' describes an email sent around Christmas by a person to friends and relations detailing the (supposedly fascinating) doings of that person and his family over the preceding 12 months - reference. Skeptic12 (talk) 22:15, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Articles are generally only about one meaning. There's a Round-robin_(disambiguation) page for other meanings Bhny (talk) 23:25, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

I've created round-robin letter to describe the UK Xmas-card tradition, and filled in the details of this and the US Army letter on the round-robin dab page. Ericoides (talk) 06:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)