Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:31:58 07/25/03
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On July 25, 2003 at 07:14:19, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On July 24, 2003 at 23:46:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Given a round robin tournament with 13 participants of equal strength, 5 of >>which are The King: >> >>There's a 14% chance The King would take the top 3 spots. > >I don't know for sure***, but i think you are wrong. > >Because if the participants have equal strength we can do the following: > >If N is the number of all possible classifications of the programs >then N = 13!/5! as we have five "The King". As Ricardo Gibert pointed out, this doesn't take into account the possibility of draws. I imagine the program I wrote is reasonably accurate. -Tom
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