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Re: pick a number

#2594
From: Bruno Wolff III
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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From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
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Date: 8 Jan 1993 05:27:48 GMT
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