J.J. Young on Sun, 9 May 2004 21:58:22 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [eia] 2nd tiebreaker roll for Tunisia


If the third tiebreaker ties when Kyle rolls, I'll go for that.  I choose
odds, unless Kyle objects.

-JJY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] 2nd tiebreaker roll for Tunisia


> Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > Sigh...
> >
> > -JJY
>
> Applying some of my logic background here...
>
> You guys are using an algorithm which is not guaranteed to terminate in
> finitely many stems to decide who will control Tunisia. But the problem of
> who will control Tunisia is a decidable one---that is, there is an
> algorithm which is guaranteed to generate an answer in finitely many
steps.
> Why not just roll a die and take evens or odds, or high or low?
>
> -- 
> J.
>
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