[EM] Eric Gorr's web site

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Sun Jan 11 16:48:01 PST 2004


At 3:56 PM -0800 1/11/04, matt at tidalwave.net wrote:
>I tried
>4:A>C>B
>10:A>B>C
>6:B>A>C
>8:B>C>A
>6:C>B>A
>9:C>A>B
>
>which translates to
>24:B>C 23:C>A 23:A>B
>
>My PERL script computes this as a win for B.  You compute it as tie for A & B.

I did the right thing.

Other then by random selection, one cannot be sure which of the 
defeats C>A or A>B to keep. One cannot keep both as this results in a 
cycle of defeats. So, both A and B remain undefeated and this results 
in a tie.





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