Re: [s-b] Ministry of Time Bulletin and Consultation

["Roger Hicks" <pidgepot@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 22, 2008 5:34 PM, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I submit the following Consultation, and urge the Priest not to forget to
> submit a clarifying oracularity:
>
> At the time of this Consultation's submission, does Wooble have 195
> mackerel?
>
> Unbeliever: Wooble
>
> Reasoning:
> {
> At the end of nweek 137, Wooble gave 0.1 mackerel to "any Player whose
> mackerel modulo 1 = .5m", via future game action posted earlier in the
> nweek. Wooble had 195 mackerel before performing this action. As a result,
> he fell to 194.5 mackerel. Of course, it is impossible for Wooble to
> transfer mackerel to himself, and it is unclear whether his future action
> would have applied to a player whose mackerel fell to modulo 1 = .5m during
> the course of said action. Proposal 289, which Passed at the end of the same
> nweek, contains the instruction "Round off each Player's mackerel to the
> nearest integer." As Minister of Society, I find myself in a conundrum:
>
> Round up or round down?!?!
> }
>
This is Consultation #95 (though it was called 6 minutes before
Consultation #94, I received them in reverse order). I assign it to
Priest 0x44.

BobTHJ
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