Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] Peter votes

[Alex Truelsen <dichotomousmind@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/28/05, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Apr 27, 2005, at 9.18 PM, automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Peter's votes:
> >> Proposal 10/1: PUNCHAMIME : Against
> >> I like the idea of playing with the words in the game itself, but
> >> I'm not sure what happens if an acronym has two words in it (since 0
> >> and 1 are both the nearest integer to 0.5, and differing conventions
> >> for "nearest integer" exist). Also, I'm not sure about how to count
> >> words that overlap within the acronym. And its second paragraph may
> >> apply recursively to itself indefinitely or something.
> >
> > I can't recall ever seeing "round down" as the default for
> > rounding. Everything I've ever seen that said "rounded to the nearest
> > X" rounds .5 up; there are game precedents for this as well.
> 
> Statisticians and accountants sometimes use round-to-even-number or
> alternate-rounding-.5-up-and-down to prevent rounding errors from
> accumulating. Round up is the convention generally done in most math,
> yes, but other possibilities exist.

 Yes, but we're not accountants and I don't think anyone would complain 
about being overpaid because of accumulated rounding errors. It seems silly 
to think that when we have a generally accepted way of doing something and a 
less common way of doing something, we wouldn't automatically go with the 
generally accepted way.

> Overlapping words don't count as a single bonus, because the acronym
> > must reduce either to "an English Word" or "a string of English
> > Words". But if you can break the same letters into English Words four
> > different ways, you would be allowed to claim each of them
> > individually.
> 
> I suppose. I guess it wasn't completely clear that the English Words
> that you claimed have to be the entire sequence of English words in
> the title. But it's probably fine.

 It states in the proposal that you have to specify "the acronym." The. Only 
one, so there can't be two seperate acronyms in the same object's name. If 
it can be rearranged four ways with the same letters, then we'll all 
disagree on the pronounciaiton, but it's only one acronym, only one string 
of letters, so you only get paid once.

> As for recursion, the event only happens once, after which control
> > proceeds to the next statement. The fact that it leaves the code
> > behind it changed is immaterial.
> 
> When a Proposal Passes, the gamestate changes listed within it are
> implemented by whoever is responsible for them. The list of changes
> are not necessarily an ordered list, but I doubt the world would come
> to an end if we treated them that way.
> 
> <snip>
> --
> Peter C.
> "Did the table do something wrong?"
> -- Troi, "Birthright, Part 1", Star Trek, The Next Generation

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