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Article #2594Re: pick a number
From: Bruno Wolff III
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 05:27
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 05:27
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From article <1993Jan7.092027.18095@greco-prog.fr>, by loeb@greco-prog.fr (Daniel LOEB): ] ] "Pick a number from 1 to 1,000,000,000. ] Your number should be as close as possibly to four-fifthes of the ] average of the numbers chosen by all of the participants." ] ] How would you play this game? (Send me email, I'll post a summary, and ] indicate which of you would have won.) ] A two player game is won (or tied) by choosing 1. For the multiplayer game there is likely going to be a multiway tie at some low number. You could try entering several times (under different names?) choosing different small numbers. If you can build a large coallition, you could have a big affect on the average, but in this setting it would be hard to believe that a big enough collalition could form to be successfull.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!cerberus.csd.uwm.edu!bruno From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Subject: Re: pick a number Date: 8 Jan 1993 05:27:48 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1ij3ckINNobc@uwm.edu> References: <1993Jan7.092027.18095@greco-prog.fr> Reply-To: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.46 Originator: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu