Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 21:59:01 12/03/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 10:13:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On December 02, 2003 at 01:10:24, Johan de Koning wrote:
>>Think about the math: there's no way you can schedule an event without depriving
>>at least someone of his favorite cultural event with only 365
>>weeks in a year. For 1-day weeks that is.
>
>That is only a small issue. July 4 is minor. 1.5 weeks is major. Flying
>half-way around the world to attend any ECGA event is expensive. _those_
>are the main points. Let's not turn this into a holiday issue exclusively.
>
>However, holidays _are_ important. And it is not hard to make a list
>to include Christmas (world), Thanksgiving (USA), July 4 (USA), Boxing Day
>(England at least, don't know how widespread), and so forth. Mark those
>days _OFF_. There are plenty left. And there are other holidays that need
>to be avoided from other countries as well. Conferences do this _all_ the
>time. The ECGA could also, with a little thought.
Let's organize a sieve then.
We start with 52 natural numbers, say { 1, ..., 52 }.
Now every potential participant calls up to three numbers because
of prime (pun intended) cultural events. The first one to have 52
scratches in a row shouts Bingo! The remaining players continue to
play until only one is left. That one is our winner.
Variations on the rules are possible of course.
E.g. players are allowed to not shout Bingo! as they see fit.
The winner will then be determined by a sequnce of dice rolls.
... Johan
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