Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:36:43 01/31/03
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On January 31, 2003 at 07:29:29, Graham Laight wrote: >On January 31, 2003 at 07:17:38, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On January 31, 2003 at 07:00:46, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>I have written a very simple game in a webpage. All you have to do is to guess >>>whether the web page is hiding a coin in its left hand or its right one. >>> >>>What I have found is that it's quite easy to beat this game at the default level >>>of 49 guesses - but at 101 guesses it's much harder - and I've yet to see it >>>beaten at 201 guesses. >> >>I did not try to play but logic tells me exactly the opposite. >> >>when the number of guesses is small the computer can know what most humans do in >>that situation and hide a coin in the second hand so if I am in the majority I >>will lose. > >That's like saying that one could win a chess game against the majority of >people with a standardised sequence of moves! The point is that in chess there are more possibilities and here there are only 2 possibilities for each move. I believe that if a lot of people played you can have the best move for the computer in the first 10 moves so at least in these moves I expect to lose but maybe I should try( but I am not optimistic about beating the computer in 49 level) I doubt if it can take 2 minutes if I think about every move. Uri
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