A pair of spectacles[…] and several other little conveniences.

I doubt I'll ever win the lottery, but as long as I buy a ticket I'm in with a chance.

A bucket is underfull when it contains less than m/2 points. We allow at most one underfull bucket in a group. If there are two underfull buckets in a group, we merge them […]

And also, many of the problems I’d had with what seemed to me to be — I don’t know what you’d call it — the angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin aspect…