Re: [eia] 2nd tiebreaker roll for Tunisia

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:37 PM 5/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 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.
Or roll a half dozen rolls at once and then compare them in order.  Sure, 
it's possible the lists will be identical, but not likely.


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