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<p>A fundamental problem in <a href="page.php?w=distributed_computing">distributed computing</a> and <a href="page.php?w=multi-agent_system">multi-agent system</a>s is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires coordinating processes to reach <b>consensus</b>, or agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Example applications of consensus include agreeing on what transactions to commit to a database in which order, <a href="page.php?w=state_machine_replication">state machine replication</a>,</p><p>
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