18.226 | Fall 2022 | Graduate

Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics

Threshold for a Random Graph to Contain a Triangle

Is a random graph typically going to contain a triangle? This video explains how to analyze this problem using the first and second moment methods from the probabilistic method in combinatorics.

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