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order in which the servers becomes leader for the 1st time (based on timestamp) be denoted by the sequence: S1, S2, … Sn Let Xi be a variable denoting the number of terms it takes for Si to become leader after S(i-1) became leader i.e. after S(i-1) became leader, for the next Xi-1 terms, only