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Subject: Re: Highest branching factor

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 08:36:19 03/13/03

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On March 13, 2003 at 11:27:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On March 13, 2003 at 08:08:19, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>On March 13, 2003 at 03:41:52, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On March 13, 2003 at 02:37:15, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 13, 2003 at 02:22:26, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The player who starts the game choose a number and the opponent replies by
>>>>>choosing another number and the winner is the player who choose a bigger number
>>>>
>>>>This sounds like a fun game! I'll start. I choose 7. Your move :)
>>>
>>>I can choose 8 and win but I do not think that the game is very interesting.
>>>I only showed it as an example for a game with bigger branching factor.
>>>
>>>bigger branching factor does not mean harder to solve.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>That's a good point. Branching factor is often used as a "complexity" value.
>>But your new game stinks!
>>/Peter
>
>A dutch professor always won this game against opponents, where both wrote down
>on a piece of paper their number and then compared.
>
>He always wrote on the paper: "i put a 1 in front of your number"

ok,
My number is:  0/(-10)
Let's see:   10/(-10)

He can put the 1 right up in his... :-)
/Peter







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