Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Number Guessing 2

["Jeremy \"Athena\" Cook" <mcfoufou@xxxxxxxxx>]

yOn Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Rob Speer wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:39:55PM -0500, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > I sure as heck would.  With 21 different number in 5 different coordinates,
> > a guesser would have a one in 4084101 chance of guessing right.  I'd
> > encourage you all to guess away.  But if you feel the answer could be
> > guessed by how close the guesses are, reduce the award.  Or maybe scale the
> > reward, making it 30-(the number of guesses so far).
>
> Wait... you get the exact distance after guessing, right? (Under the
> "standard metric", whatever that is...) And it's in two dimensions?

No, it's in 5 dimensions. I said 5 different coordinates.

>
> If the standard metric is Cartesian, then 3 guesses are all you need. If
> it's Taxicab, it may require 4. But that's all.
>
> This game sounds like it would be cool if it weren't broken, though.
> --
> Rob Speer
>
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