Michael Gorman on Sun, 9 May 2004 23:53:13 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [eia] 2nd tiebreaker roll for Tunisia


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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